RBobroski
Aerospace
- Oct 11, 2010
- 44
I am having immense frustration with WF 4.0 right now. I have a toolkit that has a lid that opens and closes under a gas shock. In my model file I created two snapshots, one with the lid open, the other with the lid closed. I then defined different exploded views using these open and closed snapshots. Now I get two issues:
First is with exploded views. If I used the open snapshot to open the lid, then made an exploded view out of that defined from the view manager, it works fine. In my drawing I set the exploded view to the "EX1" or whatever that I defined from the view manager, thinking that it takes the properties from the open snapshot, but it doesn't. If I close the lid and regen using the snapshot to make another view, then regen on my drawing, the parts in "EX1" view changed their orientation to the closed position but kept the exploded positions and offset lines from when defined in the open position, making everything a clusterf***. Do I need to define my individual exploded views as snapshots as well as opposed to in the view manager? Is there something else I'm doing wrong? If I have two exploded views in a .dwg, one open and one closed, one view is always incorrect depending on the model file orientation.
secondly, these gas shocks are defined using cylinder constraints. I do not have mechanism and get prompted that the constraints could not be satisfied...would this explain why I need to regenerate the model in order to get the gas shocks in the correct position? Once again if I have two views in a file, despite being set as open or closed, the gas shocks always take a single orientation; if i close the lid the shocks stay open until I regenerate..If i dont regenerate the shocks are wrong in my closed lid dwg..if i do regen then they are wrong in my open lid dwg. Is this because I do not have mechanism, or am I again doing something wrong? I've attached 3 images of this scenario, one of the regenerated model file status, and the other two or 2 corresponding views in the same dwg.
This is really frustrating having to constantly regenerate and having certain views mess up based on when you do this, I'm at the point of printing each sheet individually and compiling after but that's a jury rigged way around the problem.
(I couldnt seem to attach more than 1 link so here are the links to the images)
First is with exploded views. If I used the open snapshot to open the lid, then made an exploded view out of that defined from the view manager, it works fine. In my drawing I set the exploded view to the "EX1" or whatever that I defined from the view manager, thinking that it takes the properties from the open snapshot, but it doesn't. If I close the lid and regen using the snapshot to make another view, then regen on my drawing, the parts in "EX1" view changed their orientation to the closed position but kept the exploded positions and offset lines from when defined in the open position, making everything a clusterf***. Do I need to define my individual exploded views as snapshots as well as opposed to in the view manager? Is there something else I'm doing wrong? If I have two exploded views in a .dwg, one open and one closed, one view is always incorrect depending on the model file orientation.
secondly, these gas shocks are defined using cylinder constraints. I do not have mechanism and get prompted that the constraints could not be satisfied...would this explain why I need to regenerate the model in order to get the gas shocks in the correct position? Once again if I have two views in a file, despite being set as open or closed, the gas shocks always take a single orientation; if i close the lid the shocks stay open until I regenerate..If i dont regenerate the shocks are wrong in my closed lid dwg..if i do regen then they are wrong in my open lid dwg. Is this because I do not have mechanism, or am I again doing something wrong? I've attached 3 images of this scenario, one of the regenerated model file status, and the other two or 2 corresponding views in the same dwg.
This is really frustrating having to constantly regenerate and having certain views mess up based on when you do this, I'm at the point of printing each sheet individually and compiling after but that's a jury rigged way around the problem.
(I couldnt seem to attach more than 1 link so here are the links to the images)