Struggling with Named positions/views in drawings

Henk_de_Vlaam

I’m struggling with Named positions in drawings:

1. I created 2 named positions in an assembly while the drawing of that assy already exist:

• I updated the drawing (Ctrl-q).

• I tried to change the view orientation of a view (=front) to a view orientation of a named position. I did not succeed!
  Is that because the orientation of a view is not changeable afterwards in the view properties dialog or is there another method?

Named position/view in a new drawing of the existing assy ‘1’:

• I created a new drawing of the assy with the 2 named positions.

• Now the named positions did not appear in the view name list of the Insert view dialog.

Named positions in a new drawing of a new assy:

• As a test I created  2 named positions in an assembly which has no drawings.

• When creating a drawing of that assy then also the named positions did not appear in the View name list of the Insert view dialog.  

 Please can you help me?

NeilCooke

You are confusing named positions (mates) with named views. 

NeilCooke

That is correct. The only way to keep an assembly view static (does not move if assembly moves) is to create a drawing of a version. 

john_mcclary

Named view is simply saving the camera positon. This can be used in drawings when iso or the normal view planes are not good enough.

I believe the only way to change to a named view in drawings is on view import.

Named positions is for saving the positional state of the assembly, mostly for when you need to see a few states of the assembly without a bunch of configurations. Great for presentations or incontext setup when updating contexts.

You cannot use the named positions in drawings.
Instead you will need to create configurations. Then configure the offset checkbox in yor mates, or the suppression state of the mates.

NeilCooke

You are confusing named positions (mates) with named views. 

Henk_de_Vlaam

@NeilCooke,

 Thank you. It's clear now.

I thought that it was possible to create views with assy components in a predefined position - a named position. Although I need that, I think that is not possible yet, isn't it? It’s only the orientation of the assy, right?

NeilCooke

That is correct. The only way to keep an assembly view static (does not move if assembly moves) is to create a drawing of a version. 

john_mcclary

Named view is simply saving the camera positon. This can be used in drawings when iso or the normal view planes are not good enough.

I believe the only way to change to a named view in drawings is on view import.

Named positions is for saving the positional state of the assembly, mostly for when you need to see a few states of the assembly without a bunch of configurations. Great for presentations or incontext setup when updating contexts.

You cannot use the named positions in drawings.
Instead you will need to create configurations. Then configure the offset checkbox in yor mates, or the suppression state of the mates.

Henk_de_Vlaam

@NeilCooke and @john_mcclary,

Thank you for your additional info.
After the first info of Neil some of them already past my mind.

rune_thorsen229

NeilCookejohn_mcclary I think these explanations are good and would like them to be clarified on the help page. 
However I try to figure out if it is possible to syncronize these two 'view' & 'position' to have to assemblies. They should be linked so if you change mates/parts etc in one then it would reflect on the other. I've explained further here:https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/13115/design-flow-for-3d-printing

Aly_Khalifa

in ASSEMBLIES, I found you could save a Position, and then simply create and save an Exploded View without moving the components. Then when in the DRAWING, refresh and specify the "explode/position"

GWS50

Aly_Khalifa said:

in ASSEMBLIES, I found you could save a Position, and then simply create and save an Exploded View without moving the components. Then when in the DRAWING, refresh and specify the "explode/position"

I usually create a duplicate assembly to show different positions but your idea is much simpler...thank you.