showing material to be removed 9

[Yogibear]

I had the question posed to me how to show, on a drawing, the material to be removed. For example let's say you start w/ a rec. bar stock 12" long. Then you cut that down to 8". How do you do a drawing and show the 8" in a solid line type yet show the 4" that was removed in phantom or someother linetype. I know you could just draw the lines into the drawing to show it but I was curious if that could be done in the model somehow. I thought a split line might do it but I can't change the linetype after the splitline.

SW 2006 SP3.0

 

[smcadman]

The only time I have done something similar to what is being asked is whenever we are modifying an existing bracket for another project. It was cheaper to shear off an inch off of these brackets than having new ones stamped out. I made a derived part, but I did show the original part with a sketched line on the drawing showing where to shear it.

keep in mind this is an engineering forum and unless you are new here, you can expect others to correct you if you are asking to do something that typically shouldn't be done (typically the newbies to SW from AutoCAD). If this was simply a 12" flat-bar being sheared down to 8", I would show the finished part. The shop router/traveler should be the document that dictates the use of the 12" stock for that project.

Interestingly, the one who "rants" is the one who got a star, not the ones who supplied an answer to the original question.

Flores
SW06 SP3.0

 

[Yogibear]

A lot of people provided feedback and I thank you all for the quick responses.
I did give a star to "the one who rants" because all I was looking for was could it be done not necessarily if it was right or wrong.

If your boss tells you to do a drawing but it's not standard are you not going to do it? All you can do is tell him it's not starndard and then give him what he want's.

Thank you all again. Lots of different ways to skin a cat.

 

[ctopher]

I had a boss like that at my last job. If I could prove it was not standard, I wouldn't do it and show him the proof. If I could not prove it, I wouldn't do it anyway and see how far I could go. There are written standard and industry standards from expereince.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
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[rfus]

CorBlimey wins with the multibody part and linetype suggeston, which is a very simple answer (almost intuitive if you've used SW for more then a day) to in my opinion a long list of replies to question where all replies are right, but we didn't get to the one line answer until the 19th post.

If you ask me...I'd just give a print of the stock if they really needed it and show them a simulation of the tooling in a CAM package.

RFUS

 

[dogarila]

Create your part with two configurations, stock and machined. Create an assembly using just the part. Create two configurations corresponding to the two in part, let's call them STOCK and MACHINED. Create a drawing for the assembly, insert a view of the MACHINED configuration. Use "Alternate Position View" to insert a view of the STOCK configuration on top of MACHINED. The second configuration will be shown in phantom line. Add dimensions.

I just tried it in SW2006 SP3.1 and it works. I don't think it's more work then other methods shown above.

 

[bvanhiel]

I gave CorBlimeyLimey a star for his post. The way solidworks handles multiple bodies is extremely powerful. Creating an assemble\y with a separate stock material part file will work, but now you have two more files to manage.

-b