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Drawing template

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:33:15 GMT

Hi everyone i was wondering where or how i could get a tolerance table to add for my drawings? I wasn't sure if there is a plug in i can go to or if there was a better way to do it?

Re: Drawing template

mcgyvr — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:35:36 GMT

Well.. everyones definition of a tolerance table may be different..

One can create a generic table and type in static information and include it as part of the title block or a sketched symbol or whatever..

But is that what you want?

Re: Drawing template

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:45:32 GMT

well i just wasn't sure what the best way to do it was. I didn't wanna have to go through all of the drawings to add it to each page and such.

Re: Drawing template

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 21:03:43 GMT

Is there a way to make this table to bring it into each title block that can be edited?

Re: Drawing template

mcgyvr — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:17:57 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Is there a way to make this table to bring it into each title block that can be edited?

Drawing resource transfer wizard can be used to bulk push newly changed titleblocks,etc.. into existing drawings..

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Inventor-Help/files/GUID-6E7A8A69-6C4C-4E41-B69F-C8D2479B02C8-htm.html

Re: Drawing template

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:53:08 GMT

We have different tolerance tables depending on the customer.
We use sketched symbols and include them in our templates and the symbol library so they are available when needed.

Re: Drawing template

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:25:43 GMT

As of now I've been adding them into my drawings all by hand. Luckily i'm not very far into the drawings, so i can do it by hand at each one. The image below is the table they have me using.

Re: Drawing template

mcgyvr — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:34:47 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

As of now I've been adding them into my drawings all by hand. Luckily i'm not very far into the drawings, so i can do it by hand at each one. The image below is the table they have me using.

Should be easy..

Open your drawing template.. Add that table to the titleblock or sketched symbol (whatever makes more sense for you).. Then use DRTW (link posted above) to transfer that into your existing drawings..

Re: Drawing template

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:37:10 GMT

That is just a sample however it needs to be edited to our standards. So to do that would i go into a template drawing that i open for every drawings, add the table to the drawing then use that link you posted?

Re: Drawing template

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:22:24 GMT

Ok so i tried it out and it worked great. Now if i do that to all of my drawings will i lose information like dates that are in the title blocks?

Re: Drawing template

mcgyvr — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:04:26 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Ok so i tried it out and it worked great. Now if i do that to all of my drawings will i lose information like dates that are in the title blocks?

You should not..

Try one first before doing all and then check it but I suspect you won't have any issues..

Re: Drawing template

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:26:44 GMT

It worked no issues with dates. Thanks!