Associate XYZ coords on a drawing to 3D coordinates

[autoengineer79]

Hi all

I couldn't find any recent threads on this (newer than '09 time frame).

Like may other companies we have XYZ coordinates of holes in a chart on the face of the drawing and just got bit because they are non-associative to the 3D and did not update with the 3D. PRO-E had simple ways of updating several features on the face of the drawing by entering the value as an attribute name &drawing name&, &revision level&, &dimension 1 X coord& (or something like that, its been a long time) so that when the variable updated, that forced the item on the drawing to update as well. Is there a way that CATIA can associate the 3D X,Y,Z to the chart on the drawing for R19? Also, data is stored in SAP.


Scott

 

[ferdo]

Hi,

Are you using Coordinate Dimension Table ? Please see picture attached.



Regards
Fernando

https://picasaweb.google.com/102257836106335725208

https://picasaweb.google.com/103462806772634246699/

 

[itsmyjob]

Coordonate dimension table is not associative (last time i checked).

I could see only one option for that: create 3D annotation with linked XYZ (with attribut link) for each points (by script), then use view from 3D to project points and annotations.

Works with R20.

Eric N.
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[ferdo]

Hi Eric,

You are right, I didn't notice this .

Regards
Fernando

https://picasaweb.google.com/102257836106335725208

https://picasaweb.google.com/103462806772634246699/

 

[ferdo]

In my browser it seems Smileys is not working....

Regards
Fernando

https://picasaweb.google.com/102257836106335725208

https://picasaweb.google.com/103462806772634246699/

 

[autoengineer79]

Ferdo,
Thanks for the suggestion, but as you said after, not associative. The only thing that I found that works is to recreate the table every time, which isn't really that good.

I feel like there should be a way to do this though....!!!!

I can put a point at the center of the hole, measure it(Measure.1) Gx, Gy, Gz, create a parameter for each of the coordinates Hole_1_Center_Gx,Gy and Gz publish the parameter(s) and have it drive a hole in another part, but can't figure out how to get the drawing table to know that I want a value in the table to be 'Part355\Parameter: Hole_1_Center_Gx' which is equal to Measure.1 Gx. Though this seems like it should be a built in function.

Eric,
How do you get the text in the annotation to be anything but user entered text?

 

[itsmyjob]

go right click in the text field to find the hidden attribute link.

Eric N.
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