Munltiple Drawings One Model

[TMPENG]

Hello,

I have always been taught to name your drawings the same as your models. This has worked out great for a long time.

Now my company wants to create multiple drawing variations from a single model. I guess you would call these variations interfaces. So our QA department will have a drawing that has only the dimensions they require. Sales has only those dimensions they require. Customers may each be provided with different drawings that pertain to only them.

I'm trying to figure out a good way to manage all this. Maybe name the drawing for quality Q-MODELNAME and sales S-MODELNAME.

Problem is I automatically populate my title block with the modelname. I guess I could still have that and then put the Q- in front of it.

Anyone have any better ideas? We do not have Windchill.

Thanks,
Matt




Edited by: TMPENG

 

[SRINIVASANIYER1]

Create a drawing parameter called "&d
wg_name" in the
drawing template. You will then get the drawing number
instead of the model number.
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Correction: &dwg_name instead of &drg_name written
earlier.
Edited by: SRINIVASANIYER1

 

[SRINIVASANIYER1]

Create a drawing parameter called "&dwg_name" in the
drawing template. You will then get the drawing number
instead of the model name.
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Correction: &dwg_name instead of &drg_name written
earlier.
Edited by: SRINIVASANIYER1

 

[krow72]

You could still have just one drawing and use multiple sheets. Sheet one main drawing, sheet 2 Qa, sheet 3 sales, etc... You could hava multiple title blocks. the only problem is you would have to us the same method you said, Q-&model_name, S-model_name, etc.. We do this and then just make PDF files to send out to our teams.

 

[TMPENG]

Create a drawing parameter called "&drg_name" in the

drawing template. You will then get the drawing number

instead of the model number. - the only problem I see with this is that I then have to always rename all of the associated drawings if I change the name of the model. I was taught that best practice was to keep them the same.

You could still have just one drawing and use multiple sheets. Sheet
one main drawing, sheet 2 Qa, sheet 3 sales, etc... You could hava
multiple title blocks. the only problem is you would have to us the
same method you said, Q-&model_name, S-model_name, etc.. We do this
and then just make PDF files to send out to our teams. - I thought of this one as well. I like this idea except our sheet numbers and sheet total automatically populate. So if I send out just the QA drawing, I might be sending out only sheet 2 of 3 which may be confusing to the recipient. Also, many parts require multiple sheets. So maybe sheets 1-3 would be a production drawing, sheets 4-5 QA, sheet 6 Sales? The I would probably disable the sheet # parameter in my title block, and restart the sheet numbers. Or, do you have a better method. I think I like this idea the most, less files to manage.

Thanks,
Matt

 

[kdem]

Since you are not using a PDM system you could just create folders with drawings that are the same name as the part and set a search path for the part. QA folder with the QA drawing, Manufacturing folder with manufacturing drawing, etc. A similar thing can be done in a PDM system. Just remember to clear the session before opening the drawing from a different folder
Edited by: kdem

 

[dr_gallup]

You could add family table instances for each drawing. They can all be exactly the same except for the name.

 

[cpoirier]

Use a family table.
Make one full print for the part and then use the members to do the rest. You may use the save as function and name the print the name of the family member, open the print and replace the model in the drawing with the family member that matches the drawing name. You get all the drafting with a new name. From there just show-hide the dims you want for each print. ENG-, MFG-, QC-, SALES-. etc. They will all be the same model but can suit different applications. Just don't do any modification on anything but the master part and make sure to clean up all the others once done working on the master. I would make a note on the engineering print to this effect for people who will have to maintain this later.

Sometimes it is better to just say no as if this gets all out of sink and someone does not get updated with the change it will not be the guy who asked you to "give it a try" who owns the mess.

How about "drawing representations", never used them but have see it in the documentations, might be ablke to make this do something for you and only have one print. Not sure though.

Regards,
Chris

 

[cpoirier]

Dr gallup, you posted as i was writing, reading my mind?

 

[TMPENG]

Thank you to everyone for the help!

 

[SRINIVASANIYER1]

If the model remains the same, you can have multiple
drawings from the same model. Just replace the model name
parameter in the drawing with "&dwg_name".
e.g. Let us say you have a model named M1, with drawings
D1, D2, D3 etc. When you create a new drawings named D1,
D2, D3 etc., the &dwg_name parameter would take the
drawing name instead of the model name.
Try it out.

 

[audctrl]

I like Krow's thinking. Chances are if you have to make a change to one you will most likely have to change all three. Using multiple formats for sheets 2, 3 and so on for each department.

You could still have just one drawing and use multiple sheets. Sheet one main drawing, sheet 2 Qa, sheet 3 sales, etc... You could hava multiple title blocks. the only problem is you would have to us the same method you said, Q-&model_name, S-model_name, etc.. We do this and then just make PDF files to send out to our teams.