Is it possible to reassociate an annotation centerline? Often times in a drawing, I will adjust a section/cut line causing the centerlines that I placed on the drawing to change color, because they are not associated to it anymore. I have been redrawing them, but its a pain, because I have to stretch/shorten them to my liking all of the time.
I tried the RMB "Reattach", but I can't get it to work.
If reattach isn't working, then you are in the same boat as all of us.
Although, I will point out something:
You can create centerlines on geometry 2 ways (there are probably more...)
way 1)
The way you have been doing it, by selecting the two edges, and then dragging the end of the centerline to finish.
way 2)
If the hole was created in one feature (hole wizard hole) then just selecting any face of the hole will add a centerline to the entire length.
Here is an example:
In this example, the 2 counterbored holes to the left and right were created in one feature, so just selecting any face of the ID of the hole neatly dropped in a centerline.
The middle hole was created in 2 features.
There, I have a choice. I can do what you see here, and then drag the end of the centerline upward to complete it, OR I can select the face of the large counterbore and it will just add another centerline.
I think that selecting the face is also a little more robust because when you are moving the section view, you lose the hole edges created by the section, but you don't lose faces of the holes.
Could you post a picture?
Blue is what my normal centerlines are. As you can see, my dimensions & centerlines for the bottom section are not associated.
That means you are loosing references as you mentioned, what I think is happening is; you initially snap the end points of the construction lines to the model at a certain Z distance and then if you move the section cut line this will happen. To avoid this I would place additional planes in the model and make your construction lines collinear to those planes rather then picking a point in the part. That is the reason the angled lines are still blue the end points on the outside are not touching the model edges..
I am not using construction lines, however. I am using the tools in the "annotation tab".
Just to experiment, I was able to reattach it to a small hole (with the intention of reattaching it to the larger radius immediately after). As you can see, it was able to associate it to the small hole, but I do not get the reattach option once it is attached to something. I am also unable to "undo" what I did. That is another issue I am having in Solidworks. It seems like "undo" only works for certain things...very annoying.
Yes - SW has issues when it comes to stuff like this and that is why I would add planes ahead of time to eliminate those issues, if it don't work try something different.
I guess I have too many years of workarounds and if a feature or something like this doesn't work then I approach it from a different direction. Did you share this with you VAR?
What is VAR?
In information technology, a reseller, also sometimes known as a value-added reseller (VAR), is a company that typically buys products such as computers in bulk from a manufacturer and then "adds value" to the original equipment by including specific software applications or other components.
In this case, it is the company you bought Solidworks from and have a subscription with for support.
Also, are you saying that you add your centerlines (construction lines) in the model?
Yes - I have always added construction lines to the model, maybe an old bad habit and I don't use any of the centerline tools...
Thank you, I will have to look into it & see if I can draw centerlines in the model. I am not sure I like the idea of having centerlines show up in every single view, only spending hours removing them from certain views.
I only use what I need - no reason to put them all in..
Yes - I have always added construction lines to the model, maybe an old bad habit and I don't use any of the centerline tools...