Create fabrication drawings
You can create single-part, assembly, or cast unit drawings depending on the type of the selected model objects, using the desired スマートクリエイト option: manual selection (applied settings used by default), the best matching saved settings, or the best matching drawing templates.
You can efficiently manage the creation process, and select the best matching drawing template or saved settings automatically detected in the current model, or alternatively, select settings for every individual model object.
Before you start
This is how the ribbon dropdown menu looks by default with the 製作図の作成 command, the 作成レビュー checkbox, and the スマートクリエイト switches:
Before you start creating fabrication drawings, consider the following:
- Use assembly selection switches to control which drawing types are created. If the 製品の選択 switch is enabled, only assembly drawings are created. If the 製品オブジェクトの選択 selection switch is enabled OR none of the assembly selection switches are active, both single-part and assembly drawings are created. Alternatively, you can use appropriate selection filters or the リスト内のオブジェクトの表示・非表示 options in the 作成レビュー dialog to define the objects for which you want to create drawings.
- Enable or disable 作成レビュー. Enabling 作成レビュー opens the 作成レビュー dialog for more control over the drawing creation process.
- Select the desired スマートクリエイト switch.
Template suggestion is selected by default.
Control drawing creation with Creation review
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Select the 製作図の作成 command on the ribbon, context menu, or contextual toolbar.
After the tool has completed the evaluation of the model objects, the 作成レビュー dialog is displayed with a list of the selected model objects. The best matching drawing templates or saved settings are suggested for the selected objects in the 作成元 column. If those cannot be found, applied settings are suggested.
Note that you can create several drawings at once if multiple sheets of the source drawing exist.
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If you wish, change the
スマートクリエイト selection.
To select the same switch for multiple objects, hold down Ctrl or Shift, click the object rows and select the desired switch.
You will be notified if no drawing template or saved settings match is found.
手動選択 creates the drawings using the applied settings by default. You can
also select any drawing templates or saved settings. The list shows
drawing settings located in model, project, and firm folders.
設定の提案 first looks for the best matching drawing template and if found uses
the saved settings that were used to create that template. If those are
not found, the best matching saved settings based on the object name are
used to create the drawings. Up to three best matching saved settings
are suggested. With this option, you can select another top matching
saved settings file or any other saved settings.- テンプレートの提案 looks for the best matching drawing template based on the object
geometry and properties. Up to three top matching templates are
suggested. If テンプレートの提案 does not find the best matching template, the best matching saved
settings based on the model object name are used to create the drawings.
With this option you can:
- Select any other drawing template from the current or any other model.
- Use search to find the template.
- Select in the current model the objects whose drawings you want to use as a template. To do this, select モデルから選択, and select the objects from the model among the objects that are available for selection.
- Show drawing template previews. For more information on drawing template previews, see "Preview drawing templates" below.
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Use 図面テンプレートの優先設定 to control whether certain drawing objects should be recreated by using
the settings of the selected drawing template or applied settings. To do
this, open the 図面テンプレートの優先設定 dialog by clicking the
button next to the
図面テンプレートの優先設定 option.
- To create a new override rule, select an object type from the オブジェクト list, then select an action type in the 実行 list, give the override settings file a name, and click the 保存する button.
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To use the saved settings, select the desired override settings file from the 図面テンプレートの優先設定 list.
If you have added an override rule, but you have not saved it, the rule will not be used.
- If you do not want to use any override rules, select an empty string in the 図面テンプレートの優先設定 list.
If the drawing name is too long, you will get an error message 図面ファイルを作成できません。名前が長すぎます。 The default drawing name consists of the following: drawing type + position number + sheet number, for example, "A [P.1 - 1]", where P.1 is the position number. The position number might be too long, check the numbering settings. The maximum number of the characters in the drawing name is 32.
Preview drawing templates
The drawing template preview allows you to better evaluate which of the suggested drawing templates suits your needs the best. The prerequisite for showing the preview is that you have saved a snapshot of the template drawing. Previews are also shown for drawing templates in other models, and you can preview the drawing templates without opening the model.
Settings files cannot be previewed as they are not drawings.
- To show the preview, hover over the
icon of the drawing
template in the 作成元 column. - To open the preview in the snapshot
window, where you can zoom the preview, click the icon.
Preview:
Snapshot window:
To ensure snapshot files are automatically created on drawing creation and
drawing editing, check that XS_DRAWING_CREATE_SNAPSHOT_ON_DRAWING_CREATION and XS_DRAWING_SNAPSHOT_CREATION are both set to TRUE.
Create drawings instantly with Smart create only
If you have created some drawings in your model already, you can create drawings using the best matching drawing template automatically detected in the current model. This method is very fast and efficient. You can use Template suggestion also in the beginning of a project, when no drawing templates are available, because the system will automatically look for matching saved settings if no matching template is available.