Lock views in 2D?

[dsulli]

Does anyone know if there is a way to lock 2D views so that if you use the TriBall to rotate a part or assembly in the scene, an update of the 2D drawing doesn't change the rotation of the views and in turn, mess-up the dimension callouts? There are times when the "look at" tool does not orient the part exactly the way you want it, so a part rotation is necessary.

 

Thanks.

[Wim]

In the configuration-tool you can make confugurations of positions, maeby this helps.

 

Wim

 

 

[btoner]

Another way is to create a new camera and manipulate it using the triball to make the orientation right for the view you want.

 

This is especially useful for those instances where the "Look At" tool can't orient the view such that ANY edges are at 90° to the screen viewpoint

[dsulli]

Thanks for the tips, everyone! I'll give both of them a try.

 

Dave

[jhahn]

If you do create or import a part that does not have a flat surface to "look at" you can drop out a block intellishape into your scene to use for "look at" surfaces. It will come in "square with the world" even though your part may not be. You can re-orient the new shape if you want, using the Tri-Ball, so that you don't mess up your drawing. Then rename it to "View block" or something, and suppress it for later use, or delete it, or what ever.

 

By the way, reorienting a part in its model space will mess up "any" CAD system's related drawings. I would not ever recommend doing that.

 

ALSO Note that if you link your part into another scene, you can move it any way you want in the new scene, and it will NOT mess up your drawing. This is why assembly scenes work so well. The part drawing gets its orientation info from the part scene, not from the scenes that the part is linked into.

 

Hope this helps. - - Jesse

 

Engineering Innovation, Inc.

Cedar Rapids, IA 52402

[Rick Dorrington]

What would be nice would be the ability to "lock" a configuration. This way any drawing associated with the configuration would not be accidently messed up if the configuration was changed without the knowledge that a drawing or sheet was associated to it. It's easy to inadvertently forget to change your configuration when you are working. We've probably all done it and had to rebuild the configuration to satisfy a drawing sheet associated with it. Just a thought.

 

Rick