Opening and clsoing doors in a drawing

[sawgolf4me]

I have a cabinet that has a door on one side. For the drawing, I want to have a view with the doors open and a view with the doors closed. But I can't figure out how to do it. The doors either show up open or closed in both views. Any ideas how to do this?

Thanks,
Steve

 

[prohammy]

Sawgolf4me,


One way of doing it is to create a family table (in your assembly) and then insert both instances into your drawing


Kev

 

[mjcole_ptc]

Create an explode state with the doors rotated to open state and change the View representation of the view for open doors on your drawing to display the open door explode state.

Michael

 

[csusie]

You can also assemble the door as a packaged component either underconstrained or connection. Then take a snapshot of the positions you want and you can use those snapshots in a drawing.

 

[Jacoolo]

another way - in mechanism, or in animation, make a snaphot and make it available for drawing. There is a special icon in Snapshot menu to do this. For simple tasks I would follow mjcole_ptc way

 

[magneplanar]

sawgolf4me,

If you just need to show the parts in those positions, and you do not have mechanism or other modules, there is another way. You have to make sure that your BOM table does not get affected by your 3d since you will have duplicate parts. Simply, place the component in each of the two locations and make simplified reports to show or hide the duplicate parts.

If the view in the drawing that the BOM table is referencing is showing only one door set then you should get the correct quantity in your table. Make sure the view has the correct simplified report assigned to it and that the table is updated. You can even delete the table and reinstall it on the 2d drawing if it does not update correctly.
In my experience I quite often need to show multiple options in an assembly for certain user interfaces like buttons. If I use simplified reports I can place them all in the one model and quickly show the options...

the simplest method is mjcole_ptc's if you do not want to deal with duplicate parts

cheers,

M

 

[shankar_me]

Hai,


A simple way to do this is to use simplified representations. Initially assemble two doors at the same hinge but in two different states (open and closed). Then create two simplified representations one showing door in open position and the other showing door in closed position. Then use these representations in drawing.


Shankar

 

[sanjeevkar1]

go to application<mechanism


click on the 1 tab shown in following picture


View attachment 4162


move the door to open position and click tab 2 (see the pic above)


same way take a snap shot of closed door


now you can use both this snapshots in your drawing.