topic How to identify 2d views in a drawing ? in 3D Part & Assembly Design

How to identify 2d views in a drawing ?

BernardWielfaer — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 02:17:16 GMT

Hi,We have an automatic publishing to dxf for all drawings when being checked in. For assemblies this results in huge dxf files being stored in the database. That is why we only like to publish a dxf file when an assembly does only contain 2D views as this only makes sence to measure

Re: How to identify 2d views in a drawing ?

MartinHanak — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 07:09:45 GMT

Bernard,

does this mean that you want to remove the crossed out view (in my picture) ?

Martin Hanak

Re: How to identify 2d views in a drawing ?

BernardWielfaer — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:35:01 GMT

Hi Martin,

In this case there is a 3D view (crossed) and so the complete drawing is not to be intended to be exported to dxf.

Regards,

Bernard

Re: How to identify 2d views in a drawing ?

MartinHanak — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:44:42 GMT

Bernard,

in Creo Drawing mode you can define Drawing program, which erases specific views in current drawing, when some drawing parameter is set to some value.

Maybe inside your PDM system it is possible to set this drawing parameter properly before DXF export is executed.

This is an idea, only. I am not sure if it is workable.

Martin Hanak

Re: How to identify 2d views in a drawing ?

TomU — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 18:12:53 GMT

Couple things. First, it is entirely possible to control publishing based on parameter values in the model and/or drawing. (See publish rules and publish helper.) Second, for this to work like you envision you would need a way to have this parameter set prior to check-in. I'm wondering if Model Check might be able to do this. Maybe those who know and use Model Check can chime in on whether or not it's capable of checking for views based on name or orientation.

Re: How to identify 2d views in a drawing ?

BernardWielfaer — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 06:19:56 GMT

I contacted PTC and they tell me there is no function in ModelCheck that can tell you it is a 2D or 3D view, this is a dead end...

Re: How to identify 2d views in a drawing ?

dschenken — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 06:48:55 GMT

All views are 3D views. The only thing you might look for is view names, but that's pretty tedious. If one had the tools one could look to see the transformation matrix to see whether the rotations in it matched orthographic views or not.

Re: How to identify 2d views in a drawing ?

BernardWielfaer — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 07:07:51 GMT

You mean looking to the drawing file knowing the format. Does PTC publish this ?