Relative body views of sheet metal weldments

[Jboggs]

A question for the SW gurus on here: I'm detailing a weldment with several formed sheet metal components. I have individual configurations for the flat patterns of each of those parts. In the drawing, I'm creating relative views of those bodies just like in regular weldments and specifying the proper configurations to show those bodies as flat. It's all good. I go away for a while. When I return, those flat pattern views are now showing ALL the bodies. Grrrr....

This has occasionally happened in the past on regular weldments (some relative views of individual bodies suddenly reverting to show all bodies). On those occasions when I click on the view I see this option in the Properties window:

This option allows me to go back and re-select the individual body I want to show in that view.

But in this part (combined Weldment and Sheet Metal) many of the views only show this option in Properties:

No option to re-select bodies.

Can any of you really smart people tell me why? Or what I can do about it? Thanks in advance!

 

[SBaugh]

I never blend sheet metal and weldments together in a part file. I make an assembly for that. I have never seen anything good come from combining the two inside one part file. Ex-colleague used to do that where I worked and he suffered the same problems once he started building them in separate files the issues went away. I always tell people just because you can do it like that in SW doesn't mean you should.

I know that is not a lot of help, but I would separate the sheet metal from the weldments and then you can flatten your SM components and add bodies of weldments within a drawing without any cross reference issues.

Scott Baugh, CSWP
Mechanical Engineer
Ciholas

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[jassco]

Hi, Jboggs:

Maybe it is a user issue. Did you check to see if they were accidentally changed by your colleagues?

It is not a good a idea to combine weldment with multibody sheet metal parts. If I were you, I would make a single sheet metal part for each component. And then combine them together into a derived weldment part.

Best regards,

Alex

 

[Jboggs]

SBaugh - Thanks for your advice. Sounds good.

jassco - Other colleagues are not an issue. Again thanks for your advice.

That's what this forum is for!