Inventor Wishes
2008-06-06, 03:15 AM
Summary: The ability to show progressive building of a part in an IDW by being able to suppress features in the drawing enviornment
Description: Ability to create/save 'Creation Step' Views in a Part. Loosely similar to Representation Views in Assemblies, but applied to Parts.
How Used: Usefule when a part must undergo a number of steps in it's manufacture and some/all of those steps need to be documented in drawings. the ability to 'snapshot' the part at particular stages in it's creation through a mechanism similar to the Representation View in an Asseis creatembly would enable this.
E.g. an instance where a machined component is actually manufactured from a peice of material which is CNC profile cut from flat plate stock. As the profile must be oversize to allow for material removal and this 'raw' profile needs to be shown in a drawing, then having the ability to create or save a view of the basic starting shape of the Part before more specific features are added would be great. It should be relatively simple to implement by just having the ability to save a view of the part with selected features suppressed. Then, when placing a drawing view of the Part, you can select which stage or state you would like to display, much the same way as you do when placing a view of an Assembly which has different Representation Views in it.
Feature Affinity: Part Modeling
Submitted By: Glenn Laugesen on November 15, 2007
Description: Ability to create/save 'Creation Step' Views in a Part. Loosely similar to Representation Views in Assemblies, but applied to Parts.
How Used: Usefule when a part must undergo a number of steps in it's manufacture and some/all of those steps need to be documented in drawings. the ability to 'snapshot' the part at particular stages in it's creation through a mechanism similar to the Representation View in an Asseis creatembly would enable this.
E.g. an instance where a machined component is actually manufactured from a peice of material which is CNC profile cut from flat plate stock. As the profile must be oversize to allow for material removal and this 'raw' profile needs to be shown in a drawing, then having the ability to create or save a view of the basic starting shape of the Part before more specific features are added would be great. It should be relatively simple to implement by just having the ability to save a view of the part with selected features suppressed. Then, when placing a drawing view of the Part, you can select which stage or state you would like to display, much the same way as you do when placing a view of an Assembly which has different Representation Views in it.
Feature Affinity: Part Modeling
Submitted By: Glenn Laugesen on November 15, 2007