Edrawing showing motion

Maybe it had a hyperlink to an animation??

The only motion I have seen is the "animation" where it rotates through the views. Also, you can "move component" in an assy but does not obey mates/relationships. Just moves through space ignoring other components.

--Todd

[Putting on my blindfold and picking up some darts now] I know the e-drawing can contain data from some FEA plugins.. could this be the 'backdoor' ?

I haven't tried it (don't use edrawings), but how about a drawing showing alternate positions of a part or assembly?

Jerry Steiger Tripod Data Systems

That is what I am looking for, an Edrawing showing alternate positions of an assembly. I thought that this was somthing that SolidWorks presented in a demonstration that I saw when they first rolled out Edrawings. I am building a pick and place unit and I would like to send my customer a drawing representing alternate positions for the equipment in the assembly.

Thank you,

Andrew Grove

Might be what you're looking for.

Andrew, Not sure of what you saw but you can create a sudo-animation by defining an exploded view of your assembly before the "eDrawing" is created. Actually, you can create multiple exploded views as separate configurations. Additionally, you can create multiple configuration of your assembly showing different sizes, styles, mounting hardware, etc. When you create an eDrawing from a database that contains multiple configurations (exploded or not), you are prompted to save some or all of the available configurations. Using this new functionality along with the techniques that Richard wrote about, you now have new and improved ability for "Poor Man's Animations". Eddie

If you create an alternate view in an drawing file, it should carry over into teh edrawing.

That article appeared well before this new eDrawing functionality and I haven't had a chance to play around with it. Thanks for reminding me Eddie - I can't wait to work up something new for user group meetings.

See you in Boston buddy?

Richard