Drawing Template - Does not work with single components but with assemblies?!

[bjoern.veith]

Dear all,

I currently face an issue with the usage of drawing templates. 

I defined a drawing template with title block, standard views, a BOM table and another customer table. When I derive now a drawing from a "assembly", with min. one child component. The drawing template works flawless. All views get generated, BOM table is filled out and the custom table is at it's right location, ready to be filled out. 

But when I use the same template for a single component design model, the BOM table, template views and custom table are not generated.  So I need to manually add those. 

I was not able to find any mistake in the template definition, so is the a common known issue or did I make a mistake somewhere. 

thx. 

[jhackney1972]

I use a similar template so I tested it and did not see any issues.  Maybe you can "Share a Public Link" with your template so the Forum users can test it out and maybe find the issue.

[Pramod.kadam · Accepted solution]

Hi @bjoern.veith ,
Please note , If you want to create views for the components in different sheets using drawing template, you need to define the different sheet in the template with views placed with 'Representation' as a component as shown below.

Like you created one sheet for assembly views with BOM in your template, please make sure to create one more sheet for component views. Using such template will generate the drawing for all the assemblies and components in your design automatically. 

[bjoern.veith]

Good morning 

Thank you both for the reply. I somehow completely overlooked that Representation drop down when creating the template. So the Views and the BOM word now.

I only have on single minor issue. When creating a drawing and directly creating sheets for the assembly and all components, the component pages miss the "custom table" which is only on the front page. 

When using the template for a single component the custom table is created. 

It's not a must to have on the "component" sheets the custom table, when it is on the front page, but the expectation was that all sheet will get this custom table. 

[Pramod.kadam]

Hi @bjoern.veith , 

Happy to see that you are able to create drawings for multiple components and assembly using smart template.

For the issue related to custom table, Did you add custom table on component sheet in your template? If not, please add that in your component sheet in template. It should appear in all pages if you use such template for drawing creation.

Thanks, 

[bjoern.veith]

Thanks for your reply.

Yes my template which has two pages has it both

Sheets one

* Assembly Views
* BOM Table
* Custom table

Sheet two

* Component views
* BOM table (yes you see correctly)
* Cusomt table.

Test cases:

Create drawing from assembly w/o component on separate sheets -> works fine
Create a drawing from single component -> works fine
Create drawing from assembly with component sheets -> views ok, but BOM tables and custom table don’t appear.

But to admit it’s ok. In our design practices it is fully ok to not habe the BOM and custom tables on the component sheets. We have just few assemblies with internal components.