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Manual clipping in plan / assembly drawings

Manual clipping in plan / assembly drawings

I came across a project which has very long lean structures which is impossible to fit on a reasonable drawing format unless you want to show the structure in a small scale, making it practically unusable. I found a way to manually clip it with camera views, but doing so you can't dimension the structure between the camera views unless you type in the numbers manually and update them manually every time the structure changes. It gets impossibly time consuming if you bear in mind that there can be like tens of structures like this and each could have a couple of floor plans, three sections and a number of assemblies which would need to be updated manually in such manner when changes occur.

 

The general idea is to implement manual clipping of drawings, with which parametric dimensioning would work, either automatic or manual. This would come in  very handy in plan views, elevation views, assemblies... An option would also be to somewhat "link" the selected camera views and Advance Steel would then use selected points in a drawing based on 3D model behind it rather than 2D drawing to get the correct distance between the points, but actual manual clipping would be a much bigger time saver.

 

Below is a sketch to illustrate my idea. Of course, the real drawings would be much more representative and detailed and more dimensions would / could be involved.

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yes would be good.
I know this is only an example, but in your picture, this could be easily done by using cameras and activate the clipping in the details. then move them manual on the detail to the correct place

damijan.a
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I did the clipping with cameras and aligned them as suggested.

 

The problem arised when parametric dimensioning between the clipped windows can't be implemented. As shown in the sketch, instead of 5 x 1000 the dimension would be 1200 and you have to override the dimension manually. If model changes, e.g. 1100 instead of 1000 between columns, the dimension override would again have to be changed manually to 5 x 1100...

 

If there is an easy solution how to implement parametric dimensioning into a drawing clipped with cameras, I am all ears :leicht_lächelndes_Gesicht:

between the clipped windows, this is not possible and I think will be not possible to implement such dimension. 
I'm struggling what could there be done...maybe a label could be used for this. Add the information to the first beam of the clipped area. For example "5 x 1000" in the userattribute1 and on the detail you could use the label of the beam, change the content to "userattrbiute1" and if something is changed, you could change this content in the model and the label will be updated.
Far away from a good solution, but a little bit parametric :grinsendes_Gesicht_mit_großen_Augen:

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