04-14-2021
10:49 PM
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04-14-2021
10:49 PM
Not really working on a similar workflow to you. I have tried to reuse tube and pipe drawings by copying assemblies and reference the drawings but there is still a lot of messing especially because diameters change and annotations get detached. But I guess if you have sub assemblies not changing they would get there own drawing and the general arrangement would get the whole assembly.
- I have noticed that if you can keep your model intact and just change lengths sizes most of the annotations will stay attached. However if you change patterns, or swap parts the annotations will come detached.
- You could set up ilogic to place all your views and speed up text annotation and Qtys with iproperties from your bom and occurrence names. However annotations are where the time is spent so reuse of drawings without tearing your hair out is the goal. I have seen some code for reattaching annotations, deleting detached annotations.
- If you are up for a challenge and you have parts that are incredibly consistent you could get the annotations to snap to the parts faces by using names faces. This will work well as long as all faces are visible in the view. How named faces work with tube and pipe or frame generator I don’t know. You can only name faces in parts.
- Can you post a sample collection of drawings even if simple or explain the workflow in a little more detail with some pictures and see what comes up.
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Alan
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Alan