Changing referenced part in a drawing

[originalhandle]

Say I have a SW dwg with several views of "Part A".
"Part B" is a similar part, but not the same. (created by copying "Part A" and making changes)

Is there an easy way of changing an individual view in the drawing to show "Part B"? (with the same scale, orrientation etc)
Along the same lines as "replace component" for an assembly.

Thanks

 

[zirtapoz]

Yes.
Save your drawing as a copy(change your drawing file name.
Then
click "File-Open" menu..
select your last saved drawing file copy.
But do not open yet.
Fist select references(a button-below side of the open window.).
Change your partA to partB.
Make your modifies. Then save the file..

 

[SteveMartin]

Zirtapoz's reply works for changing all views of "Part A" to be views of "Part B". If you want to change an individual view from A to B, but leave some other views at A (not sure why you'd want this, but it's the impression I get from the initial post) I believe you are out of luck.

 

[uGlay]

open part A, make 2 configurations, insert part B into part A and then in your drawing pick the configuration of part B.

not something conventional imo and i wouldnt do it with my parts. I would much rather have 1 part with 2 configurations from the begginning.

good luck.

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[acciardi]

Does SW not support multi-object drawings? This is easy to do in Pro/E and NX. You just add another model to the drawing, make it the active model and start creating views.

I'm new to SW - just download the demo package and I'm working my way thru it.

 

[ShaggyPE]

acciardi,
You certainly can. You just drop the second (and subsequent) models into the drawing sheet.

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[madvlad]

with regard to SteveMartin's post

"If you want to change an individual view from A to B, but leave some other views at A ... I believe you are out of luck."

That's not true, there is a way to (sortof) do it:

Make a copy of the drawing file. Do what zirtapoz suggests with that second drawing file, to make it refer to part B. Then open up the unchanged drawing (the one of part A), and copy over the views (or whole sheets) from the second file (B) to the first (A).

Then you have views of both A+B in the same file without having to go through the effort to recreate the views/notes/dimensions/layers etc.

 

[acciardi]

ShaggyPE - thanks - I would have been surprised if this capability didn't exist.

So far, I would have to say that Pro/E, NX and SW seem to be converging on a very common workflow. Switching from one to the other is really no large deal. That's good for we users as we get kicked from job to job.

Ed