Detailed part lines blend together in drawing.
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We do a lot of these types of drawings were it is a total layout of the product showing the location of all the individual parts with balloons. Typically these are printed and at the scale used, all the detail lines (first image) are blended together into a solid block (second image). The detail isn't needed for this layout view, but is for other individual drawings, so we don't want to remove these lines at a part level or create duplicate parts. Ideally we would like to have just an "envelope" of all these parts in this view to better illustrate the boundaries and overall shape.
We have tried "simplifying" the assembly with limited or no success. In the simplify process we have tried to remove the holes, features, etc. which often still leaves us with a few holes leftover and the grooves represented as horizontal lines, which isn't really much of an improvement.
We have thought of just drawing a rectangular sketch in each part and making a view representation of just that, but it doesn't always carry over to the next iteration of this part if we "save-as" and alter the dimensions.
It may not be possible or at least not a simple one-click operation to get what we want, but maybe someone has a better thought of how to achieve a cleaner drawing.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions.