Flexible Assemblies Change Drawings

[wintrlvr]

I have an assembly ofa windowcover that is hinged at the top of the window, twoard the bottom of the window, there is a sub assembly that swings out when the cover is open to prop it open. The subassembly is attached to the cover with a hinge, which I made flexible. When preparing the drawings I would like to include different views of this assembly with the props in the open and closed position. Is there any way to complete both open and closed scenerios without compromising the subassembly drawings?

 

[audctrl]

I am assuming that maybe you have 3 states in play here? A free state, open state and closed? Either way you can add the views of the optional states and get them dimensioned or finalized then select the view and convert it to draft entities. Then changeyour model back to free state so your S/A drawings will not be affected. Otherwise, you could use family tables or create another assembly in the other condition.

 

[feisthammela]

I would do it in one of two ways:


Constrain your assembly so that your three states can be created in a family table, and show each instance in your drawing.


Constrain your assembly using mechanism constraints, which will allow you to take snapshots of your three states which can then be propagated to the drawing.


I run into a similar situation as yours quite frequently, and I prefer to use snapshots because it tends to bog my computer down less when I have large assemblies.

 

[jebaileyjr]

Just a note on using snapshots in drwing views.


Pro/E picks one of the snapshots to be the "default position" that is the only position that any dimensions will show up properly in the drawing. This is true in WF2.0 and WF 4.0. We ran into this about 10 months ago ona surgical instrument we were designing.


If anyone has any work arounds to this (or a proper way of doing it) , I would love to know!