Catia V5 Drafting Mode 2

[LakeErie]

Hello Catia users

My name is John. I work in an Aerospace facility. This company recently purchased Catia V5 revision 18 or 19 I don’t recall off hand. For my questions this change in revision levels should have no effect. I have been using 3-d modeling since 1998 (college) and 2000 (industry). In industry my predominant use was in UG and Solid works. I like all other users in different software packages look for similar features to accomplish engineering tasks and projects.

After completing a product assembly, can I complete the following? (Switch to drafting workbench)
1. Create view 1 with all components shown.
2. Create view 2 with components hidden, not shown, inactive or whatever terms may be used in Catia.
Modify the assembly (product) remove components, modify geometry etc… Rebuild product and drawing to reflect changes.
3. Can I maintain view 1 rebuilt reflecting these changes?
4. Can I maintain view 2 rebuilt reflecting these changes?

An example would be if I had a top die assembly and a bottom die assembly.
View 1 = top and bottom dies shown.
View 2 = top die assy. components shown only.
View 3 = bottom die assy. components shown only.

5. In the drafting workbench under each view can I view the entire tree of components used to create each view? Select, show hide etc….

After modifying the product I should be able to maintain the links for all 3 views and have them update accordingly. Right now I create view 1. Hide components for view 2 (in product mode) and then on my drawing view 1 now falls apart showing of course view two. My solution is it isolates views after creating them but this really sucks. Please help.

Thank you
John

 

[hellotrm]

Sorry for the late reply.

I have found answers to some to some of the questions that have come up in this thread.

First:

What is the differance between a partial and a full scene?
If partial is chosen, whatever you do in the scene happens to the model and whatever is done to the model is done to the scene.
If full is chosen, it creates a seperate model withen the model that can be manipulated without changing the main model. It is possible to add parts to a full scene using the following steps.

Place the part you want added to the scene in the main model. copy and paste special into the scene. this will add two of the same item to the tree. one in the main model and one in the scene. It is possible to remove one of the parts from the tree without affecting the anything.

Second:

If views are taken off of a full scene that is not correct, how can you fix it without recreating the views?

A new scene can be made and the drawing view can be linked to the new scene. This updates the view with any labels and text so that you don't have to waste time retyping all of that information.

Hope that helps and provides some clairity.