evolDiesel
Mechanical
- Feb 29, 2008
- 93
Guys,
I'm messing around with SolidWorks trying to recreate a digital data set from the Drawing Requirements Manual, specifically the image in Figure 26-1, which I would post but I'm not sure that's legal. It doesn't matter because all you have to do is picture a simple part with geometry, tapped holes, dimensions, and GD&T applied. I attached a totally different image I found online, however it has all the same ingredients.
Right away I get hung up with the following:
1. SolidWorks doesn't seem to allow me to pick 2 edges for a dimension; it only allows me to pick a single edge for a dimension, and then it won't let me control the annotation plane to "lie" it on. Am I missing something? Is there a way to pull "any" dimension you want, like in a drawing or a sketch, and then can I specify how it is oriented (what plane it lies on)?
2. The hole callout wizard is grayed out in the model. This is really unfortunate because there is no better way to dimension a hole feature you created with hole wizard. Why is this annotation not available at the model level?
Basically, has anyone had any real success using SolidWorks to make ASME Y14.41 Digital Data sets? There are the issues above, but also what file type do you save to? So far the best result I've seen is to leave it as a part (SLDPRT) and then have the downstream consumers use Edrawings to view it. It looks pretty good in there, however I'd rather save it as something more universal like STP. But when you do that the annotations get blown away?
Is SolidWorks, and 3D technology in general just not there yet (ASME Y14.41)? If you have had success I WOULD LOVE TO view a file of yours (if you don't mind).
Thanks!!
Jack
Jack Lapham, CSWP
Engr Sys Admin
Dell M6400 Covet (24 Season 8, Ep 22)
Intel Core 2 Duo T9800, 2.93GHz, 1066MHZ 6M L2 Cache
8.0GB, DDR3-1066 SDRAM, 2 DIMM
1Gb nVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M (8.17.12.5896)
W7x64 | sw-01: 55.92
SolidWorks 2011 x64 & EPDM both sp2.0
I'm messing around with SolidWorks trying to recreate a digital data set from the Drawing Requirements Manual, specifically the image in Figure 26-1, which I would post but I'm not sure that's legal. It doesn't matter because all you have to do is picture a simple part with geometry, tapped holes, dimensions, and GD&T applied. I attached a totally different image I found online, however it has all the same ingredients.
Right away I get hung up with the following:
1. SolidWorks doesn't seem to allow me to pick 2 edges for a dimension; it only allows me to pick a single edge for a dimension, and then it won't let me control the annotation plane to "lie" it on. Am I missing something? Is there a way to pull "any" dimension you want, like in a drawing or a sketch, and then can I specify how it is oriented (what plane it lies on)?
2. The hole callout wizard is grayed out in the model. This is really unfortunate because there is no better way to dimension a hole feature you created with hole wizard. Why is this annotation not available at the model level?
Basically, has anyone had any real success using SolidWorks to make ASME Y14.41 Digital Data sets? There are the issues above, but also what file type do you save to? So far the best result I've seen is to leave it as a part (SLDPRT) and then have the downstream consumers use Edrawings to view it. It looks pretty good in there, however I'd rather save it as something more universal like STP. But when you do that the annotations get blown away?
Is SolidWorks, and 3D technology in general just not there yet (ASME Y14.41)? If you have had success I WOULD LOVE TO view a file of yours (if you don't mind).
Thanks!!
Jack
Jack Lapham, CSWP
Engr Sys Admin
Dell M6400 Covet (24 Season 8, Ep 22)
Intel Core 2 Duo T9800, 2.93GHz, 1066MHZ 6M L2 Cache
8.0GB, DDR3-1066 SDRAM, 2 DIMM
1Gb nVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M (8.17.12.5896)
W7x64 | sw-01: 55.92
SolidWorks 2011 x64 & EPDM both sp2.0
