On Feb 11, 7:52=A0pm, "Janes" <dja...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I had three drawings that needed to be combined into a single drawing
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> capturing all the same views and details (and, I hoped, without redoing
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> the work). I thought I'd seen something, though never used it, that was
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> menu pick of 'Merge Drawings'. But, I couldn't find it.
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> Well, just by accident, I went to the Insert menu and tried 'Shared
> Data>From file' and picked the drawing whose contents I wanted to add to
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> existing top level inseparable assembly. Bingo, the sheets were copied
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> the second drawing into the first, appended to the end of the drawing.
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> the views didn't lose a dimension. I did this with a third drawing as
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> and got all the information into the drawing.
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> Then, to finish the job, the separately named "parts" were duplicated in
> Intralink with 'Duplicate Objects' with the 'update parents' option
> (assembly and drawing) set to yes. Then, when I opened the drawing and
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> 'File>Update>Current', it brought in the updated assembly and showed the
> "renamed" items in the weldment BOM. Their models were even added to the
> Drawing Models list, replacing the previous versions. Best of all, I
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> have to manually do the ever awkward 'Replace' which generally loses
> assembly constraints, causes subsequent components to fail/freeze, loses
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> balloons, etc. This was slick as snot on a brass doorknob {somewhere up
> there with Teflon in slickness}.
>
> David Janes
Thanks for this Dave. I just used the first part of your tip to make a
2 sheet drawing, each sheet having the same views of the same
assembly, but with different View States (Simplified Reps). I had one
drawing with one sheet, saved a copy to a different name, then opened
that second drawing and changed the View State.
Then I created a new drawing and im****ted the other 2 drawings into
it. The initial empty sheet (from my template) remained and I had 3
sheets. I removed the first empty sheet.
What was interesting was that I tried to insert the second drawing
into the first drawing and visa versa, but it would always set the
inserted sheet to be the same view state as the original sheet. Hence
the new drawing.
What's cool is all the views are in exactly the same positions so I
can switch between sheets quickly to compare the 2 View States.
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