Part Number in drawing changes to that of a sub-part

[Robert-FreEnergy]

I have an assembly that consists of a body and a component.

The assembly has a part number (FRE-G-007-007-002-002) and the component has a part number (PN-0130).

I use a custom properties table to assign the part number of the assembly as the drawing number, however, for this assembly, when I create a drawing it assigns the drawing number as the component's part number, not the assembly's.

If I suppress the component in the drawing, the drawing number changes to the assembly part number.

Does anyone know if this is a feature or a bug? I don't seem to have run across this behaviour before and I am pretty sure I have done this sort of thing plenty of times.

With component unsupressed

With component suppressed:

[Robert-FreEnergy]

Ok

I've done some experimenting...

If I add a second component it appears to fix the problem. To my mind this indicates that this is a bug, fusion recognises that, if I have a body and multiple components, I want the part number to be for the assembly, but not if it's only one.

I don't work for Autodesk though, so maybe this is intentional.

Anyway, would love it if someone could confirm either way?

I can get around it by manually editing those fields, but it's a shame as the auto-populate feature is really helpful.

Drawing of assembly with two subcomponents:

[Pramod.kadam · Accepted solution]

Hi @Robert-FreEnergy ,

Thanks for sharing. Your analysis is completely right. While auto populating fields in title blocks, if assembly has only single component, we treat this as a component sheet and show the component property by default. However if there are multiple components (in un-suppressed state) then we treat that as an assembly and display assembly properties. This is by design.

However we are working on a project to provide users an ability to select entities (assembly or components from design) to set and display the properties of that particular entity. This shall be available soon.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,    

[Robert-FreEnergy]

Hi Paramod, thanks for coming back to me.

I understand why you would do that, I look forward to the update.