I have created a model of yacht hulls on SolidWorks using the boundary surface function. When I tried to create a drawing of it to get an orthographic display, the boundary surface does not show up on the drawing, I only get the end drawings used to make the surface. Does anyone know how to get round this?
Jack,
This is a shot in the dark but try right-clicking on the view and make your tangent edges visible to see if it helps.
Chris
Hi Chris,
Had a go at that but no luck unfortunately.
Thanks
Jack
Hi Chris,
Had a go at that but no luck unfortunately.
Thanks
Jack
Boundary surfaces should be displayed in the drawing, unless the surface body is hidden in the model. I just did a quick test and it behaves as expected.
Model:
Drawing:
Hi Jim,
I am using the 2013 Student version and this is what it looks like, I tried checking that it was definitely not hidden but still get this.
Can you upload your model and drawing?
How would I do that?
Open the "Reply" box then click on "Use advanced editor" at the top right of the box.
Here they are
As soon as you make a feature using a surface, the surface is considered reference geometry and will not show up in the drawing unless you explicitly import it. If you roll your model back to a point before Boss-Extrude1, your boundary surface will appear in the drawing as expected. So, in order to make it appear when the model is rolled forward, you need to use the Insert....Model Items menu command and select Surfaces in the Reference Geometry category to import the surfaces:
Then your drawing will look correct:
That's sorted it, thanks
As soon as you make a feature using a surface, the surface is considered reference geometry and will not show up in the drawing unless you explicitly import it. If you roll your model back to a point before Boss-Extrude1, your boundary surface will appear in the drawing as expected. So, in order to make it appear when the model is rolled forward, you need to use the Insert....Model Items menu command and select Surfaces in the Reference Geometry category to import the surfaces:
Then your drawing will look correct: