Ive found an issue with Centrelines as an annotation.
I have a piping assembly where im trying to add centre lines individually to the draing because the auto insert seems to be smoking crack.
But even when I am trying to select the two lines for it to place the centre line between it tries to place centrelines everywhere even under the kitchen sink
Note the auto insert is not selcted
So my question is there any other way to accomplish correct centrelines
Please see attached
just a thought, is your piping created with a 3d sketch? you may be able to show that sketch, or convert entities to get your center lines
It is created with 3D sketch yes , but the reason it is happening is becasue its and assembly of the pipe routing as well as all elbow etc.
So it places centre lines on all parts within the assembly.
It would be nice for a tool such as section scope to be available for centrelines to avoid this issue.
or if your tree was available when you choose the centrline feature so you could select part to add centreline.
gm Ben - Try this -
When your in the drawing select the view then go to the feature tree and select the sketch you want to show and convert entities then high light and change the line style and weight and color
Highlight the sketch
Select line style
Change the Color
Thanks john will have a look at that option , Its quite laborious seeing as there is a centre line feature.
I just feel it is a little under developed.
B
Ben,
If a drawing view is active when clicking on Centerline then the intended functionality is to place one at every possible place. Make sure you don't have the drawing view selected when you activate the centerline tool
Sometimes it behaves, sometimes it doesn't.
If one doesn't select the 'auto insert select view' then it shouldn't happen, it says so in the box above it. But it does happen. And it does it often.
So no that can't be intended behaviour.
Short of spending time on making the necessary demo files and submitting a SR report there isn't much you can do.
I know it won't help you now and considering that it's been this way since at least '09, I wouldn't hold my breath.
In general I try to use centerlines as little as possible. Especially for dimensions I tend to make the 3dsketch lines temporarily viewable.
Well Put!!
I agree about keeping them down to a minimum , but when you have a piping system it is pretty much impossible to avoid it :/
But I just hope this issue gets sorted , as I wasted an entire last week fixing/triming/deleting the automatic centrlines.
Ben,
I truly feel your pain.
If I'm not drawing piping, I'm drawing constructions for piping or the surroundings (buildings and such) for the piping.
Even the 3dsketch has issues because it's not rare, depending on the version and the SP that one is working with, that to make them visible you first have to make them 'hide' before you can make them 'show'.
On top of that you can't just filter all the 3dsketches in the feature manager and just switch them all on because the system only allows you do to it one ..... at ..... the...... time. Which really doesn't help things along when you have 4 views, a detail and a couple of section views on a layout that you have to detail of a half a dozen individual routes.
On an additional side note :
For the life of me I don't understand why, when one can toggle the view sketches with shift+s, that the 3dsketches of the routing is by default switched to a non viewable state in the drawing mode no matter if one has made them viewable in the model mode.
What if you turn on view Temporary Axis
Peter , ye I dont only do piping'all day everyday thank goodness, but currently designing a Bilge system for a warship and as you can imagine there is a lot of pipes :/
Hi Tony,
I'm not sure I understand what would that change ?
THE TEMPORARY AXIS OF THE PIPE IS THE CENTER LINE.
Tony, what you say is true. The temp. axis = center line of pipe
However, if there's lots of pipes around and flanges then it will still mean that there will be lots and lots of axis all over the drawing.
Much much more then will be needed or wanted.
The issue isn't to have all the centerlines but just only the lines that are actual center line(s) of the pipe(s) in question.
Turning on the temporary axis shows all axis of everything which will be at least as bad as having SW populate the view with all centerlines if not worse.
You can use the temp axis and draw a ctr line and make them coincident.
That would be one way to do it as well - but I still think it would be quicker finding the 3D sketch and converting the sketch and turning that into a centerline, that way if things change the sketch should go with....
i have a similer problem in solidworks 2015 after the computer spends a minute or two adding the millions of centerlines i do not want, you can use the ctrl z function to start over. when i ketch myself it happens because i have selected the view before clicking the center line button.
I wish there was a way to cancle the command as the computer is laging to put in all the extra crap you dont want it to do but are forced to wate.