I continue to run into strange things and buggs with I make SWdrawings. Here is some of my current experience:The project is a series of parts with truncated stub ACME threads whichare on a few degrees of taper, ( I know, this is a strange thread).When I went to model such an unusual arrangement, it was relativelyeasy to make the model. However, when I went to make a dimensioned"detail" of the thread I ran into a number of problems:The first was because the surfaces were all rouned and at strangeangles the dimension tool could not "grab" any surfaces, (or edge ofsurfaces). I do not believe that this should have been much of achallenge because to me a 2D view of a 3D part should be a FLAT 2D viewof the part and the edges should be nothing more then lines in the 2Dview. After a couple of hours of searching around, I found a referenceto using the "intersecting curve" tool, (found in the Sketch tool bar). This worked fine but the dimension tool still would not grab onto anyof the edges/ points. I finally was able to project the intersectingcurve sketch using the "convert entities" onto the drawing plane whichthe dimension tool finally was able to make connections. But, this wasnot an easy process and definately not intuitive.The second problem was that I didn't want to go through all of thetrouble repeating the above procedre a number of times. So, I thoughtI would just make a copy of the detail. However, to make a simple"detail" was also not as easy as one would expect. I tried cut andpasting, making a block, and deleating the previous views so that Icould copy the drawing with a new drawing number, (leaving the olddetail in tact). But, none of this worked. Am I the only one thatuses standard "details"? Of course this is the purpose of blocks butthe block function absolutely would not accept the geometery!Apparently because the geometery was referenced, (ie. by a detail view)the block function could not recognize the geometery. Again, if theviews are...

Hello Ed-Have your tried Insert Model Items, Dimensions? This will insert the 3D sketch Dimensions from the model into the Drawing. Look in the Help file for more information.Best Regards,Devon T. Sowell

Did Solid Works forget about Drawings?

Jul 28, 2006 22 Replies

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Ed 19 years ago

Excellent! I will give this a try. Thanks.

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Ed 19 years ago

Very interesting.... the old DXF trick. I think that we used to use this technique ACAD or Cadkey? I will give this a try too... thanks.

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Anonymous 19 years ago

I totally agree.

-DWH

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