Re: Did Solid Works forget about Drawings?
- From: "Ed" <ed.thompson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Jul 2006 02:40:48 -0700
Wow! Some great comments. I will attempt to answer some of the
questions:
1) Comment: "Have your tried Insert Model Items, Dimensions? This will
insert the 3D
sketch Dimensions from the model into the Drawing. Look in the Help
file for
more information."
Answer: Yes, but the results were not much help.
2) Comment: "I am guessing you made the thread with a sweep. Describe
the generatrix (profile) and directrix (sweep curve). The profile
should be kept
simple. Any fillets or rounds should be added after the sweep. "
Answer: I did make the thread with a profile and a sweep curve as you
guessed. The profile is fairly simple but the surfaces of the thread
are at specified angles. The thread itself is also on a few degrees of
taper. There are no fillets or rounds. SW did a great job of modeling
this unusual thread, but it was just about impossible to actually
detail it.
3) Comment: "Is the sketch plane for the generatrix perpendicular to
the directrix
or does it contain the axis of the thread? If the generatrix plane
contains the axis can you arrange for it to be in a position convenient
for creating a drawing view later? "
Answer: I think what you are asking is that when the thread exits the
end of the part, is there a good representation of it in a standard
view. The answer is no because of the compound angles interfacing the
end of the round part. I had to create a plane, (that could be used to
define the view) that was generated with the axis of the part and a
line through the center of the part to the high point on the thread,
(just before it exited the end of the part). All of this was a fair
amount of work which is why I didn't want to keep duplicating this for
each part. Of course I only discovered that I needed all of these
extra planes etc. after the base part had been copied several times.
But I have ran into this before where I need to make a "detail" that
could be used on a number of drawings.
4) Comment: "Is the crest of the Acme thread parallel to the axis of
the thread or
does it follow the taper?"
Answer: It follows the taper.
It just seems like a 2D representative, ie. flat sketch, (in a 2D view)
should be an option.
Probably the biggest thing that concerns me is that SW is up to 10+
versions and some fairly obvious things still have not been addressed.
Hopefully, if we mumble about this enough that someone at SW will start
to get some drawings improvements.
.
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