About the Drawing View of a Manufacturing Process in an Assembly
If you have set the auto_show_3d_detail_items Detail option to yes and create a drawing view of a manufacturing process, then the outer boundary of the tool path and the annotation elements attached to the step are automatically displayed within the drawing view, based on the placement of their references. Dimensions are displayed automatically for each step to represent the manufacturing area of the step.
The dimensions that are automatically displayed are for:
• Manufacturing location
• Manufacturing size
The dimensions are automatically created from the operation CSYS. The operation CSYS is the origin for the dimension. All outer boundary curve dimensions are displayed on the same plane as the curve, except depth dimension, which is displayed in the side view.
The outer boundary curve is displayed as an external contour of an envelope (including the tool diameter) of the tool path. The plane of the curve is defined as:
• Perpendicular to tool axis
• Passing through Z mini (bottom slice) of the tool path.
For holemaking steps, a curve circle is created in the start surface plane with the center on the hole axis. The diameter of circle depends on the following sequence types:
• For countersink sequence it is countersink diameter
• For other holemaking sequences it is tool diameter.
The dimensions show the distance between the origin of the Operation CSYS and the lowest tool path point. Four dimensions show the distance between the origin of the Operation CSYS and the maximum and minimum X and Y points of the curve outer boundary.
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 The automatic display of dimensions is applicable only to NC Sequences such as face milling, hole making, and 2-axis trajectory milling. |
You can create a drawing view of a manufacturing process in an assembly. Within the drawing view of the manufacturing process you can display information from the process manager step table into a Pro/REPORT table using the following manufacturing process parameters:
• Manufacturing criteria name
• User defined parameters from the step table
• Minimum and maximum X, Y, and Z values from the step table
• Machining time
• Step and operation CSYS name
• Status of the step
• Number of axes
• Template name
• Same behavior set name
• Parameters extracted from annotation elements
You can also create a drawing view for the current step tool used in the manufacturing process. Click Layout and then click the arrow next to Model Views. Click Tool. This creates a view that includes a representation of the tool. You can only create a view of a solid tool.
If you copy the drawing sheet that includes this view using
Layout >
Move or Copy Sheets, the view is created in a new sheet and the tool related to the active step in the sheet opens. If the step in the drawing does not use a tool, then the view is left blank.
| • You can show an annotation element only once in a drawing. • You can change the color of the outer boundary curve. • You can create a process sheet only for applied steps. |