Automate the drawing annotations of coped pipes
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New to BOMs in inventor, bear with me...
I am often making drawings of railing assemblies, sometimes with coped pipes, as pictured above. Currently, I have to create the part views, draw a sketch, and dimension all of my pipes that are coped and angle cut. I would like to get to the point where I don't even need to create drawings for these pipes, and instead I can have the necessary dimensions (shown above) in the BOM.
Is there a way to create these dimensions as custom parameters?
Or could I use iLogic to automatically create a drawing for each one of my frame members?
I'm considering not using any notches in my model... this would likely solve my problem, but I would then have to manually specify which pipe ends need to be coped.
Also... the CUTDETAIL parameter is giving me the complementary of the cut angle. I could make a custom parameter of "CUT = 90-CUTDETAIL#" to get my actual cut angle, but the CUTDETAIL number is not consistent to the type of detail. Is there a workaround for this problem?
TYIA
Inventor 2021
