Views missing in drawing production
Have the model role as beam and use the drawing style for beam.
You get far better results using drawing styles rather than processes, you can choose your prototype and drawing number before you generate the drawing.
Hi,
You refer to an assembly drawing of the beam. Assembly drawings are primarily to show the relative position of welded items not how to manufacture the items. Try a part drawing of the beam and see if that is any better.
Aleck Giles, Structures Consultant, Graitec
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sorry but this is not true.
The result of drawing styles and processes are the same. the used drawing styles in processes could be defined by the user in process manager.
the same could be done with the prototypes, the naming and so on.
Maybe @patricksmithMXHYT maybe you told us what version (language) you installed, so we could have a look what could be the problem. If I use the process (in the german installation) the result is showing all necessary views)
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Hi,
A drawing process selects the appropriate style to draw an object based on the model role of the object. So if the model role is "beam" it will give the same drawing as selecting the beam style. Unless you are not choosing the style that is default in the system. In which case your processes can be adjusted to select your prefered styles. (For example, the default UK build uses "General Assembly NesView" for beam assemblies which fixed a lot of issues with the old "Beam - Front, top, bottom" style. But one style won't please everyone so both are in the system.)
A process also can select a suitable scale and paper size for you. They always set the filename for you.
So if you use the correct model roles for everything a process is miles better and faster than selecting styles yourself and having to draw each item one by one. Many people just call everything Beam or Plate and that is why the drawings come out poor. Selecting the right model roles is critical to getting the best automatic drawings.
Aleck Giles, Structures Consultant, Graitec
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@AleckGiles 😛 I was faster 😇
By the way...how long we have new smilies in the forum?
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the used detailstyle could be set in the Detail Style Map:
here you could set the detail style which is used for explizit model objects
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Hi Patrick,
@Sebastian_Eiche is too fast for me. He has answered about the part of the Drawing Process manager. However, you should not need to change anything. As you initially imply, it should give the views automatically using the standard UK build.
Without the model we are just guessing. Please can you post the model with the appropriate beam highlighted somehow so we can test.
Aleck Giles, Structures Consultant, Graitec
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Hi Patrick,
I don't think you should mess with the Drawing Processes. Having started looking at your model I get the same result. The views are requested by the drawing style but the necessary view wizard decides they are not needed. Which is wrong. All the settings are right, so give me some time to work out why it is not giving the expected result.
(For future reference, the reason your settings are greyed out is that you are in Advance and you can only edit the User settings.)
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Hi Patrick,
The issue here is nothing to do with the drawings styles or drawing processes. Your holes are not strictly on the surface of the part and are possibly not perpendicular to the part. Therefore the normal reactions in the drawing are not triggered.
If you put your UCS on the part and then use the distance command to measure form the end of the system line to the node in the middle of the bolt group you will get a distance in each of the three axes (might need to up the decimal places on your units). This is not right. One axis shoudl definitely be zero.
Delete and remodel the holes with the UCS on the part and ensuring the holes are truly on the surface of the part and you will get a proper drawing with 2 views and fully dimensioned holes.
Aleck Giles, Structures Consultant, Graitec
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Hi Guys, I am facing a bit similar issue, but in my case, I cant see the view at all, can anybody please help me with this please. This is how my drawings look like. it's just showing the title not the view.
