Hi all,
It seems that every company I visit treats 2D drawings differently.
Some create full drawings, some include only minimal dimensions and some just send STEP files to their manufacturers and complain afterwards.
I usually don't really enjoy making drawings, but I clearly see the advantage of creating them. Manufacturers I visited still print every drawing that they receive because they can add notes and transfer information between people and departments.
That's why I was wondering what you, SolidWorks gurus of the universe, consider the best approach in this. I have learned a lot already from the Your best tricks topic, I hope the same will happen here.
To give the topic a little bit of structure, I made a list of questions:
- What, in your view, are the main advantages and disadvantages of drawings?
- Does your company use (make/ produce from) drawings?
- Do you make the drawings of the parts that you designed, or does someone else do that?
- Do you create drawings for in-house production or for clients?
- Do you see 2D drawings being used in ten years time?
- What would be the next step? STEP models and dimXpert?
Interesting Topic -
1. Good question - Advantages - We use multiple page drawings, so all our project information is in one place, in one file etc.. Ability to product PDF Files etc.
2. Yes we make products from our draiwngs
3. Yes I make the drawings of the parts that I Designed
4. Both
5. No (or very minimal)
6. I think eDrawings will finally come to a point to replace other documents in our system..