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How create drawing views with multiple inserted parts or sketches?
martin_kopplow
Member Posts: 700 PRO
Maybe I'm not seing the obvious, but as it seems, I can select exactly one item to insert into a drawing view, right?
I could activate the type to insert like parts, assembly, composite or sketch, one or any number of them, but I can still only select one item to insert. Even if I select Parts AND Sketches, I can still either insert a part OR a sketch. Why ist that? Is there a way to get around it?
In the current case I want to create a drawing of a prototype PCB that will be milled out of a copper plated epoxi board. The drawing is meant to be exported as a dxf for the guy who is to make it. Ideally there would be the contour of the PCB, the holes drilled in it and the toolpath for the isolation milling to create the circuit. I have everything in my CAD model, including a sketch for said toolpath. He could feed that into his machine right away.
Now, the logical thing would be to make a drawing of the PCB shape and overlay the sketch(es) for the circuit and the holes. That would create a drawing that would be referenced to my model and update as changes are made, I'd be pretty happy. This, though, does not appear to work, since only one of these (one part or one sketch) may exist in any one drawing view. I can also not create the drawing view individually and layer drawing views on top of each other, at least not precisely, since there is not tool to do so.
What would be the best way to tackle this (except buying Autocad and do the layering of the different sketches there, but hey, Autocad is so 80ies!), and keep the output as close to a feature based model as possible?
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Set a view of your part (PCB board). Right click on the view and select show/hide sketches. It will give a list of possible sketches for you to pick.
Yeah, that little menu, I often overlook it. My fault.
I was totally confused by the fact alone, that I can activate two or more types in the insertion dialog but still only select one item. That's contradicting. Now, in the view's Show/Hide submenu, I can obviously show sketches, even if I did not activate them in the insertion dialog. How is that logical? Why make the choice at all? Only to filter for items displayed? I do probably have a different approach to GUI logic.