Assembly guide + parts list challenge.

[-Nick-]

Hi,

I really need help to produce a coherent assembly guide which shows how a simple structure is put together with nuts and bolts.  The catch is that components in my design are nested.

I've asked this before without finding an answer and yet I have to believe there is a solution otherwise I am doomed to weeks and weeks of manually producing user guides and parts lists.  For this reason I am sharing a design which shows the first parts which go together in a small structure and make up "Stage 1" in a multi stage user guide and hoping someone who has been here before can tell me how they might do it.

What I would like is to produce a drawing which looks something like this, (produced partially in Fusion and stitched together) :

The final version might show the parts exploded slightly, (in animation), and close ups of the nuts and bolts where there are different sizes in the same assembly stages. That I get how to do, but how to produce an image with all the parts listed on the same drawing escapes me. (Without moving every component to root level which I can't do without creating a totally unmanageable browser tree).

How would you do it?

[TimeraAutodesk · Accepted solution]

Hi @-Nick-, 

Thanks for posting this here for us to help out with. Today, parts lists create a top-level parts list only. Based on the structure of your assembly, you can get an overall parts list by creating some dummy views off-sheet that are each isolated to the level you need... these will act as references for parts list only, and you'll then create your base/assembly view independently  - in the case below I created it as a simple partially exploded view from animations. 

Here's the link to the drawing, too, so you can open it up and take a look at how I set it up: http://a360.co/2eZWPKi 

We have plans to improve the parts list functionality in the near future so that you can more easily control the hierarchy, etc. so that this isn't such a hidden workflow - keep your eyes on the Roadmap to see when the development team breaks ground on Parts List work: http://mur.al/bW6QNqDW

Hopefully this helps, let me know.

Best,

Timera

[-Nick-]

Hi,

Many, many thanks for that.  I'm relatively new to the drawings side of things and of course didn't stop to think you could create more than one base view, hidden off the page, and pull down a parts list from there.  It may be a work around but it works ! 

There are a couple of other threads around with similar problems, I'll check through my history and point them here.