I've got some large assemblies that I want to simplify and show in drawings. They aren't the largest in the world and I'm sure many of you have worked on ones much bigger, but they are big enough to become annoying. Problem is, they come in many different sizes, and thus have Family Tables.
I want to create a drawing that shows all the sizes side-by-side. This drawing is just something simple that we want to provide for our customers, so they don't need to be terribly detailed, and we'd like to simplify them to save regen time.
I've tried using Simplified Reps, and in theory it seems as though this should work just fine. But it seems to me that Simplified Reps and Family Tables don't work nicely together. When I add each model to the drawing and try to use Simplified Reps for each view, the views always revert to the generic of each component, and thus the views all look messed up. Is there any way to use Simplified Reps to show multiple instances in one drawing?
Or are there other methods that could help here? I've tried using Shrinkwrap models, but those aren't associative to the originals, are they? I would like to have something that would automatically update if there's an Engineering Change. Is there anything else? Envelopes, Merge, Inheritance, etc?
I can't believe we're the first company that's tried to do something like this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I want to create a drawing that shows all the sizes side-by-side. This drawing is just something simple that we want to provide for our customers, so they don't need to be terribly detailed, and we'd like to simplify them to save regen time.
I've tried using Simplified Reps, and in theory it seems as though this should work just fine. But it seems to me that Simplified Reps and Family Tables don't work nicely together. When I add each model to the drawing and try to use Simplified Reps for each view, the views always revert to the generic of each component, and thus the views all look messed up. Is there any way to use Simplified Reps to show multiple instances in one drawing?
Or are there other methods that could help here? I've tried using Shrinkwrap models, but those aren't associative to the originals, are they? I would like to have something that would automatically update if there's an Engineering Change. Is there anything else? Envelopes, Merge, Inheritance, etc?
I can't believe we're the first company that's tried to do something like this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
