Hello All,

I'm sure this question has been asked somewhere before but after much google searching I could not find a topic about it.

When making assembly drawings the interference in cosmetic threads causes the edges to not show up.  The best answer I could find was to make the models so there is no interference.  I know I can do that by selecting the "remove thread" option when using the hole wizard but then the part details don't have the dashed lines representing the thread.   I also don't want to use configurations to have a model with "remove thread" for assemblies and "cosmetic thread" for part details.  I'm not even sure that's configurable anyway, I've never looked into it. The only other thing I could think of was to model bolts using the minor diameter which I'd rather not do.  Up until now I have just been manually drawing in the lines so the drawing looks decent.

Do you guys have any suggestions?  What do you do when you come across stuff like this?  This issue doesn't come up frequently since I usually will not call out or show fasteners in assemblies.  However, there are some instances where I will need to call out a specific fastener and if I need to use a section/broken out view then I have this problem.  Also, not sure if this makes a difference but I have made my own library of fasteners so I do not use any toolbox components.

Thanks,

Thomas