Insert drawing views of standard content
Our company catalog division has a lot of manuals made from Solidworks era that need updated post-move to Onshape and we're making extensive use of the standard content library fasteners these days instead of maintaining a custom fastener library like we used to have to. The question is, how can I make an Ikea style manual showing a 1:1 scale representation of the standard library bolts. I know I can make an assembly that includes all my standard library fasteners for the project and just use that as a drawing view but I'd like to directly insert these fasteners into a drawing view without needing to make an assembly. Is there a way to do this?
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I don't think there's a way to make a single drawing view. You can of course put multiple models' views on a single sheet. Getting things lined up nicely in a single view seems like it might be best as an assembly unfortunately.
Simon Gatrall | Product Development, Engineering, Design, Onshape | Ex- IDEO, PCH, Unagi, Carbon | LinkedIn
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Unfortunate that I can't just spyglass the locations of those standard library documents and reference them directly. That would solve the issue too. @Caden_Armstrong you didn't stumble across an alternative way to do that in the last 4 weeks by chance, did you?
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You can spy the standard content library documents using Renaissance's component links app…except that doesn't help you.
Onshape closed the loophole with the "other documents" selection that use to allow standard content links. For some reason you cant select standard content anymore (which use to also allow you to derive standard content).
Might still be able to use the API to insert standard content into a drawing…but that seems like more work than the assembly approach.www.smartbenchsoftware.com --- Renaissance --- Kestrel -- SmartLink
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