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RTRoy Thomassen19/10/2012

Hello,

My question has more to do with drawing/drafting standards than SW itself.  I have a piece of tubing that I want to represent so that the guys in the shop can build it using hand tools (tubing bender, calipers, protractor, etc).  I can use a tube data table to define the coordinates, which works for our outside vendors, but for our "first article" parts we need to make this part in-house. 

Anyway, this tubing has a series of bends that are on two planes.  The features on one half of the part are all on one plane, the features on the other half are on a different plane.  I would like to dimension all of the features of the part in a couple of views, but I cannot contain the dimensions in orthogonal views or projected sections.  What I can do is define an axis where the two planes meet, and I can rotate the part about that axis such that in one view, the left-end features are flat against the sheet and in another view the right-end features are flat against the sheet. 

I am attaching a pdf of this drawing and I would like to hear your opinions regarding how to properly call out the rotation of the part from one view to the other.

Thank you for your help,

-Roy