Advanced Drafting Help - Define what is shown in a view or sectino without modifying the product

[Kenevil]

Hello,

I think the best way to describe my question is to explain my current method. I'm creating a drawing. The views point to products. I don't have write access to the products. Before creating a view, I open the product and hide some of the components. After the view is created, I lock the view so I don't accidentally update it down the road with all the components visible.

My problem is going to be when the drawing is reviewed and checked. I just found out that the first thing the checker does is unlock all the views and does an update. This is going to really screw me up.

Is there a way to define only some components from a product in a view? I need to do this with the sections too.


Second question, after cutting a section I need to graphically change some of the lines to thin and dashed. Is there a way to select lines belonging to one particular component? I thought I could change the component and have the view inherit those properties but it didn't work. Either my preferences are set wrong or the section is inheriting the graphics from something other than the component (Like the product, solid, part, geoset...)

Thanks,
Scott

 

[Kenevil]

I think I can answer this one myself now. Go to the assembly and create something like scenes? Or right click on the part in the assembly and edit the properties in the drafting tab. Overload might help me too. I'll try all these out Monday.

 

[drewmumaw]

@Kenevil
Right-click on the view and go to the view object > overload properties. You should be able to select the components in the view frame that you want to hide. Similar to modify links. Again, I don't have CATIA open at the moment so my answers are from memory.

Regards,
Drew Mumaw

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[jopal]

You could have 2 different assemblies with the same sub products in it. We sometimes do drawings, so what we have is what we call "DWG Master Assembly". When working on drawings, the user loads this product, and does what he needs to do to the drawings. Otherwise, users always work with "Master Assembly" which contains the exact same data, but the prints are not linked this product.