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Feb 22, 8:56 pm, "Janes" <dja...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Feb 11, 7:52 pm, "Janes" <dja...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > I had three drawings that needed to be combined into a single drawing
> > while
> > capturing all the same views and details (and, I hoped, without
redoing
> > all
> > the work). I thought I'd seen something, though never used it, that
was
> > a
> > menu pick of 'Merge Drawings'. But, I couldn't find it.
>
> > 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
> > the
> > existing top level inseparable assembly. Bingo, the sheets were copied
> > from
> > the second drawing into the first, appended to the end of the drawing.
> > And
> > the views didn't lose a dimension. I did this with a third drawing as
> > well
> > and got all the information into the drawing.
>
> > 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
> > did
> > '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
> > didn't
> > have to manually do the ever awkward 'Replace' which generally loses
> > assembly constraints, causes subsequent components to fail/freeze,
loses
> > BOM
> > 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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> Don't know why this isn't quoting text. Anyway, what I WISH they had,
> since
> I had a need for it a couple days ago, is the ability to copy/paste
views,
> both parent and detail view, from one sheet to another. And dimensions
> intact would be a good thing, as well. The insert sheet, the way I
> described
> it, winds up being a workaround for a lot of things that should be done
> directly.
>
> David Janes- Hide quoted text -
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I'd like to be able to copy a view to the same sheet.... i.e. same
orientation, x-section including hatching spacing etc, and other
display settings. it would save me a lot of time sometimes.
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Yup, the views get crowded. One view for position, another for size, for
example. You can do it in the usual way (create 2 views from the same
xsec,
but why not just copy and remove the stuff you don't need. Maybe PTC is
too
busy spending all its extra cash buying up other companies to improve the
core product with things users find useful.
David Janes
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