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TWO DRAWINGS ARE REQUIRED FROM ONE PART AND IT'S MACHINED CONFIGURATION

Question asked by Cyndi Riffe on Jan 19, 2018
Latest reply on Jan 19, 2018 by Alex Burnett

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I have a "cast" part that requires machining - the machining has been done in a configuration format as this part is the same in three separate lengths so this should have made it easier to create all sequential drawings. What has occured is this - after the cast print was complete and the new configuration done for the machining and thus that drawing complete the cast drawing has changed to become the machined part. How do I separate the two or is this not a possibility. These part files were given to me and I am trying to fix this issue.

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Christopher Estelow Jan 19, 2018 1:36 PM
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If the part the you are making the drawing from has configurations you should be able to open up the drawing, click on a view and then select which config. you want to use for that view. Change all the views to the correct config. and you should be okay from then on.

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- Christian Chu @ Christopher Estelow on Jan 19, 2018 1:45 PM
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  Just a thought - use one drawing with extra sheets for diff. part's config
  in case you want to open dwg from a model. SW might be confusing to locate the dwg (if more than 1)
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- Cyndi Riffe @ Christopher Estelow on Jan 19, 2018 1:47 PM
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  Acts like it wants to work but does not - again I inherited these so I am not 100% certain how they were done - I may have to do a bit more research but it looks as if configurations were used. Thank you very much for the information.
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Alex Burnett Jan 19, 2018 2:09 PM
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The way we have avoided that in the past is that we will create one part file for the cast part and create a drawing from that. Then, we create a new part file for the machined part and as the first step in the feature tree, choose Insert Part and select the cast part file. From there, you can cut-extrude and add your other machining steps. This way the parts still remain linked but there isn't a chance of creating the issue you're referring to with configurations.

As for your current situation, I am not sure what the best course of action is to fix it. I suspect that when the previous user added the features to "machine" the casting that they may have had the option selected to apply to all configurations. All you have to to is highlight all of the features that are additional steps or "machined cfg only" and select Configure Feature in the menu. Then check the boxes for all of the features on the cast configuration to suppress them.
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TWO DRAWINGS ARE REQUIRED FROM ONE PART AND IT'S MACHINED CONFIGURATION

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