Parts list not working
Hi Simon,
How are the components structured in the assembly? The parts list reflects the top level of components for the selection you're creating the drawing for, so in this case (Design contains 4 boxes, each is a component):
If you create a drawing of the entire design you will get a parts list with 4 line items (and component Properties):
But if I create a drawing of the whole design for this case (4 boxes are sub-components under a Component):
I will get a single line item in the parts list and no properties since the Component actually contains multiple sub-components:
From your description it sounds like this may be the reason.
In this case (nested sub-components) you will get all of the sub-components and properties listed in the parts list if you create the drawing from the top component node in the browser, not the whole design.
If you can send me or share your design with me (christopher dot miller @ autodesk dot com) I can take a look and see if we're looking at expected behavior or a bug. I am guessing though it's the structure of the components in the design that's leading to what you're seeing.
In the next Update we are enhancing view creation to allow views of different selections to be placed in the same drawing. Parts lists for each of these views will reflect the view you select. We are also adding the ability to insert an image into the existing titleblock, but for now this will be on a per-drawing basis. Work is underway for custom titleblock creation/editing which will persist for new drawings (customizations will be saved in the drawing template) but this is still in progress (another update or 2?).
Thanks,
Chris
Hi Simon,
If the components you want to create the drawing of are all contained under a top-level Component, you can create a drawing of just that component (and get the sub-components in the parts list) by using the new drawing option off the right-click menu for that top level component:
Alternately using this same design as an example if you selected those four sub-components in the browser and dragged/dropped them on the top level Design node, then creating a drawing of the whole design would list the 4 components in the parts list.
Looking forward to taking a look at your design/project. Sorry to hear the dimensions are not behaving, we'll get to the bottom of this...
Thanks,
Chris
Hi Simon,
Thanks for sharing the project. A few comments:
1. I did verify that creating a new drawing from the "samling" top-level component (right-click the component > Create new drawing) resulted in the expected parts list
2. For the dimensions, were they disassociated on creation or were they initially associated then lost it after a drawing or design update?
Some actions will disassociate all dimensions, for example if you create a drawing of a body, add dimensions, then convert that body to a component in the design. Now this is considered a new entity and the dimensions will disassociate on drawing update. In your case though some dimensions are still associated, so this doesn't appear to be the case. Similarly, manually grip-editing one of the dimension origin points will disassociate the dimension (stretching the dim or moving the text via those grips will not break associativity).
If they were initially created and not getting badged, do you recall what was done since then? This very well could be a bug, but it would be good to know the exact steps. I re-associated the dimensions in the 100003 and 100001 drawings, in one of those cases the dimensions were not actually snapped to the design geometry:
Do you recall if these were originally snapped to the centers of those holes?
Thanks,
Chris
Hello,
I'm also having problems with the parts list in the model. Occasionally the data from the properties of a linked sub component does not get carried over into the main assembly model and hence the part number and description don't get entered correctly in the parts list. Here's an example:
This is the part, with the part numbers and description from the high level component.
It's linked in this assembly, but the part number and description haven't been transferred from the part (they do in the other parts)
And hence they aren't correct in the parts list on the drawing:
It works fine for the other parts. I've managed to work around similar issues to this in before by doing something minor (like turning on and off visibility of a body) and re-saving the part so it re-loads in the assembly - sometimes it'll also update the part details in the assembly. This one is more tricky and doesn't seem to update.
I've also had issues that joints in assemblies become undefined (yellow or red in the timeline) when I just update the part numbers and description of linked parts with no other changes to the parts - again this only happens occasionally but it is a bit frustrating. Any ideas most welcome.
Best wishes
Jon Hancock