topic Re: Component Name Property in Drawing Space in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Component Name Property in Drawing Space

CMCORE — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 17:29:15 GMT

In Drawing Templates, it's great that you can automatically field <ModelPartNo> and <ModelPartName>, but this is only useful on the very first page of an automatically-created drawing. Everything else you might want to have the individual component name.

For example, my model might have 20 components, and the first page I would like to have the name of the overall model display using <ModelPartName>, which is easy. But all subsequent pages I would like to display the name of the other 20 components- 1 per page as the pages are generated.

As you might guess, when I go through to create a drawing of a product that has many internal components, I have to rename each page and each text label according to the name of the part, which will not update if the name changes in the future.

Perhaps I'm missing out on a better way to apply fields so I can achieve this functionality?

Screen shots showing template I used and the resulting drawing off of a quick example model. It shows the name of the overall model instead of the name of the component, which is not helpful in the majority of circumstances.

Re: Component Name Property in Drawing Space

-KyleWilliams- — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:00:14 GMT

Hey @CMCORE

It looks to me like this is only the case for sheetmetal parts. If I assume you work exclusively with sheetmetal components that may be why you're seeing it for all. Please let me know if that isn't the case as with all other components it works as expected in my testing.

Let me investigate further and hopefully get you a solution.

Thanks,

Re: Component Name Property in Drawing Space

liang_chen — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 06:25:49 GMT

Usually, we use one representation reference in one drawing sheet, and source of property is from reference. Please refer to attached video for how drawing template works, and let's know if it meets your requirement. Thanks

(view in My Videos)

Re: Component Name Property in Drawing Space

CMCORE — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:35:02 GMT

@-KyleWilliams-, Thanks for your reply. No, I do not exclusively work with sheet metal. I work for a utility trailer manufacturing company, so I'm developing entire models from the ground up as configured designs with all sorts of components, but sheet metal is definitely big for us.

@liang_chen, Thanks for the screen cast. I tried a template with only 1 representation per sheet the way that you did after my initial test, and sure enough, it worked after that! In fact, I did a little digging into the template I have and realized that for some reason, there were extra assembly/component references per sheet on the browser tree (Assembly:1, Assembly:2) that were not visible. They probably came about after deleting and reinserting assembly views as I modified the template periodically. After deleting them, the template works as expected and the names link up properly!

Thanks to both of you for your help!

Re: Component Name Property in Drawing Space

CMCORE — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:59:47 GMT

I will add, though, that it would be nice if sheet metal in particular would have the functionality to have folded and flat patterns in the same drawing sheet while enabling the part name to link correctly. That is the one thing that does not work because the flat pattern reference is a "second" reference, which creates the issue. My template works great now, until I get to a sheet metal part with a flat pattern next to it.

Thanks!