Drawings - Hidden Bodies Showing in Component Drawing

[kevinwatts]

I just started new drawing of a Component from a  project file. Other drawings from the same project seem to work fine.

There are some hidden Bodies in this Component. When I create a drawing the hidden bodies are showing up in drawing. Not the result that I want to have. Rather than just deleting the hidden bodies, I would like to keep the extra bodies in case I need them later. I have not had this happen before.

Is this an expected behavior with the current Fusion version? What is the work around?

[Anonymous]

Let me see if I undertsand you correctly -

You have one component (Component 1) with several bodies inside. Some of the bodies are "hidden" (lightbulb is off).

You create a drawing.

All the bodies (hidden and unhidden) in Component 1 appear in the drawing.

Is this the workflow you are experiencing? If so, it has always worked this way. If you want to hide those bodies, turn them into components (inside the other component).

I have attached a screencast showing it.

Basically, if you have multiple bodies, it assumes they are al part of the component, and that you want to show them because you chose the component, whether the bodies are hidden or not.

What you want to do, is take those bodies Inside Component 1 and turn them into componenets themselves, so you can choose specifically which components you want to add (even if they are nested inside other componenets).

This will make more sense once you see the video and play around with it yourself.

In the "drawing" dialog, it will highlight everything that will end up on your drawing, so be aware, if hidden bodies are highlighted, they will appear.

Here is the link tot he screencast (it isn't uploaded yet, so I can't insert it directly, sorry).

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/d05bcb29-eff4-4a64-acfc-66d8674df920

Let me know if this helps!

[kevinwatts]

Yes, that is the workflow that I am experiencing. Thank you for your subestions.

It sounds like I will have to convert them to sub-components.

This is a similar issue that I ran in to when exporting components as STL/STEP...files. I belive that this was fixed last year. When drawing, I think that it would be a good idea if this behaviour was fixed. The code flag for visiblity within a component is there and just needs to control what is or is not included with a component when exporting or creating a drawing.

Kevin

[HughesTooling]

There is a difference between export and making a drawing though. When you export it's at that point in time, with a drawing there is a link so any time you change visibility the drawing would change and need an update. I think if it worked like this it would cause more problems than the way it works now.

Mark

[Anonymous]

Experienced this same thing this morning while creating an exploded assembly drawing.

I was unable to hide the extra bodies used for construction in my design that I didn't want in the exploded assembly drawing (created from Animation).  I converted the bodies to components and then was able to hide them in the assembly drawing.

It would be nice to be able to hide unwanted bodies directly in the drawing mode.  Because, in my design (Model Mode), I want them to be construction bodies, not components.

Brad.

[HughesTooling]

@Anonymous You can hide bodies in the drawing workspace, just expand the body folder and hide the ones you don't want.

[Anonymous]

Thank you HughesTooling.

I was able to do what you are showing if the body was inside a component.

However, the bodies I couldn't hide were in the main design, not under a component. I fixed it by moving the bodies from the main design into a component and then was able to hide them in the assembly drawing.

Thank you again.

Brad