Wishy Washy Design Views

[Anonymous]

Hello, Thanks for info on projects in 6. My problem I have is with design views. Is there any way to defer updates to drawings based on them? I create a drawing of a component I
need made by the shop by supressing parts in the assembly and creating a design view. Then when that is done I continue the design process by creating parts and adding them to the assembly. Someone asks me for another copy of the drawing and guess what? The drawing is hosed. I mean not
beyond repair, but then I have to go back into subassys. to shut parts off & spend time fixing the view to look like it did when I first printed it. It seems that the design views get messed up very easy. Any way to lock them?

Thanks Don O

[Anonymous]

PDF's.
There are other workaround ways do you really want to know?

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Laurence,

Power is nothing without Control
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"ACORNMAC" wrote in message
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> Hello, Thanks for info on projects in 6. My problem I have is with design
views. Is there any way to defer updates to drawings based on them? I create
a drawing of a component I
> need made by the shop by supressing parts in the assembly and creating a
design view. Then when that is done I continue the design process by
creating parts and adding them to the assembly. Someone asks me for another
copy of the drawing and guess what? The drawing is hosed. I mean not
> beyond repair, but then I have to go back into subassys. to shut parts off
& spend time fixing the view to look like it did when I first printed it. It
seems that the design views get messed up very easy. Any way to lock them?
> Thanks Don O
>

[Anonymous]

PDFs can be great but you still need to process revisions
therefore going through the same process.
Should I ask you about the other workaround ways? I think I might want to know! If they are anything like projects I understand why you did ask. :^) Don

[Anonymous]

The way I look at it you don't want several versions of the same drawing
with the same number with out using issue's.
Once the drawing is released give it an issue Archive to PDF, then if you
are wishing to revise that design and give it another issue then you will
need to save the model and drawings, and do a save as with a different
number to carry on with your design? Duplicating the files.
That way you can always revise the old design and carry on with your new
one.
Defer updates on IDW's was not available till 6.0.
Even with defer updates if you unfroze an IDW the it would automatically
refresh to the latest design of that model.
That's why the favourite is PDF's.
I suppose that with defer updates you could freeze the design and carry on
issuing drawings and deferring updates over and over remembering that they
are set in stone, like PDF's.
You can add annotations to deferred drawings though.
For you on 5.3 is there any other option?

--
Laurence,

Power is nothing without Control
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"ACORNMAC" wrote in message
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> PDFs can be great but you still need to process revisions
> therefore going through the same process.
> Should I ask you about the other workaround ways? I think I might want to
know! If they are anything like projects I understand why you did ask. :^)
Don