How to make referenced drawings visible in detail drawing in Advance steel?

[Hristina.Sokolovic]

Hi,

I inserted few drawings into my model as references. I am trying to make them visible in detailed drawing. How can i do that?

Thank you for your answers

[johnjmbennett · Accepted solution]

Hi, 

depends upon how you create the drawing,  from a camera then a management tools default applies, to allow the inclusion of the 2d cad elements.

‘Default “Drawing General > General > Allow detailing of CAD entities inside camera drawings”. If this is ticked when you generate the drawing form the camera then any standard AutoCAD entities within the scope of the camera will be included within the camera view.

If the Default is not ticked, then standard AutoCAD entities are ignored when generating the camera view.’

if using a drawing style and then placing on a drawing prototype  then you need to select the 2d block before creating the drawing.

also to include XRef the drawing style needs to have include XRef checked under the model object selection criteria.

This blog post may help:

https://www.graitec.co.uk/blog/entry/how-to-use-2d-drawings-as-underlays-in-advance-steel

cheers

[Hristina.Sokolovic]

Thank you. 

But Xref that I need to show is also Advance steel 3d model. What will be useful  for showing AS model which is attached to another Advance Steel file?

[johnjmbennett · Accepted solution]

Hi,

so within the model you are working to create drawings, you need to use the Xref command and insert the models relative to each other,  not a reference model, but an Xref dwg.

then in the drawing styles you need to use a drawing style that has the Xref set under the objects created from the drawing.

In the Drawing Style Manager found on the ribbon , under the output tab , panel  Document manager, button next to document manager icon.    open this and go to the style in question.   under the style is a model object selection tab, on that tab you will see various listed options for the drawing types,  in this case if a arrangement drawing, then to include an Xref automatically you need to adjust the Selection option to one with Xref.

you can change this under the user part of the Drawing style manager system.  once this is done, it will then pick up the Xref with you having to remember to selected it each time.

[Hristina.Sokolovic]

Thank you.

Regards