Automation of Break feature in Assembly drawing

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Hi Experts, 🙂
I'm fairly new in this automation field. I've been working on one of the project of automation of break command in drawing of an assembly model. The main reason for automating break command in drawing is that my assembly is quite large and long which requires around 4-5 breaks to show all the parts and fit in sheet so I want to fix break's position which will save my time whenever any part in assembly gets updated.
I've been able to achieve desired result in drawing of a part model (I've shared link below, thanks to this forum only), but not getting how to implement this in assembly model.
There're few points I want to understand related to this automating break operation in drawing of assembly model.
- As for part model we've used named entity command to name the Edge / Face, Could we use this method in Assembly model as well ?? Coz I couldn't find a way to create named entity in Assembly. (Please note I don't want to make named face / edge in child part of the assembly and then retrieve them in assembly model. This'd be very long process just only for break automation in drawing.)
- First question has led me to second one.. If this "named entity" method doesn't work for Assembly, then could we find a way to make break feature in drawing view from position of the "workplane." in assembly model ?? So by just moving a "workplane" position in assembly, break feature in drawing gets updated ?? If anyone could write just a fairly simple code for this it would be beneficial for me to understand how these features work in drawing automation.
- If anyone could find any other way of automating break command in assembly drawing, it'll be also appreciated.
Thanks in advance
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