2004 weldment drawings

Have you went through the whats new yet? I think that expalins a lot about the Weldments and cut lists. The only problem with Cut lists that I'm aware of is you can only have one cut list per sheet, not per assembly.

Regards, Scott

Scott,

The "whats new" says the same thing as the help. The problem with defining the orientation for a cylinder is that there are not 2 flat faces that are perpendicular to each other.

So far I have just inserted a view of the weldment in a config with all bodies hidden except the cylindrical part. The drawback to this is the time to do it and that I also have to manually set the item number to reference back to the cutlist.

Leo

Can you use planes?

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Todd,

Thanks for the input. I tried that but it won't let me choose a plane to orient from.

The problem is that if you choose faces from more than one body, it inserts a view of the entire weldment. To insert a view of one part only, you must choose faces from the same body.

Leo

How about making a planar surface (or even an extrusion) that will create a face on the plane. Align your view to it, then hide the feature/surface. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd try it myself :) Bill

Bill,

That worked. I was able to make a small extrusion and use it to orient my part. In the drawing I hid the lines of the extrusion.

Thank you, Leo