Cosmetic Threads.....

[tommypurple]

Could there be a more diffucult feature to work with than cosmetic threads? Geez...


I am trying to remove cosmetic threads from a view in my drawing and the show/erase is not working. I am working with an assembly using simplified reps. I have created a mirrored component sub assembly and now when I try to erase the extra cosmetic threads nothing happens. I want to show the cosmetic threads for the component I am detailing, but the cosmetic threads for other components are showing up. And the show/erase tool does nothing to remove them.... Why not?

 

[tommypurple]

Never mind....


If I put it in a layer inside of a layer it works..

 

[Dell_Boy]

Layers will do the trick but also check the settings for "hlr_for_threads" and "thread_standard" in drawing.dtl



Is the drawing model view of the
part, mirrored sub-assembly or complete assembly. If it is of the part
only, there is no possible way of showing extraneous threads.





DB



Edited by: Dell_Boy

 

[skraba]

As dell_boy said, set "thread_standard" in [your_drawing].dtl to "std_iso_assy_imp".

 

[tommypurple]

Right now my Drawing dtl is set at:


thread_standard STD_ANSI


The drawing is of just the single part, But I am using simplified reps to show just the single part. But in doing this all of the threads show up for the other components.

 

[Dell_Boy]

It sounds to me like the dwg MODEL is actually the assembly and what
you are trying to do is entirely the wrong method of creating a part
drawing from an assembly.



Add the relevant PART model to the drawing, then create your views from
this. This should make it IMPOSSIBLE to show threads from other parts
in your part view.



It is quite common to have several models in a drawings (note an assembly, no matter how big, counts as just one model).





DB



Edited by: Dell_Boy

 

[tommypurple]

I will not say that the way I am doing this is the best way. But it is the way things have been getting done. Some of the features have been created in the assembly model. Cosmetic threads created in assembly will not show up in the part model. They only show up in the assembly model. Another thing that I do like is that when I goto back up my file I only have to back up one drawing, because all my components are on one drawing file with multipule sheets.