Howdy,
I have been playing with Multibody parts with sheetmetal with a few solid parts here recently...
Anyway, I have a single part file. I have 6 items in the cut list.
In normal parts in an assembly world, I would open each part and go to custom properties and create a "Part name" and "Part number". All of my drawing templates know to populate the title block text boxes with linked values with that information. (If there is a better way to do that please let me know!) Makes doing lots of parts and large BOM assemblies very easy, especially when the file name is sometimes meaningless... I don't have PDM so changing file names can be a headache.
So in the cut list, I can add custom properties, works great for balloons in exploded part identification and assembly diagrams. It's just that I can't seem to select those custom properties for use in the sheet formats. What am I missing to be able to do that?
What would be great is... draw a mulitbody part with 1 configuration (I have cheated by using delete body and configurations to make a single part show up on a drawing but what a mess, and sometimes it gets lost and I end up with a folded part on a flat pattern view and other quarks of the like) in which I select a drawing view, select a single body, and boom... that drawing has that bodies cut list properties populating the title block.
Hopefully that makes sense and thanks for looking!
Hello,
Have you tried "Relative to Model" views and then use select bodies to choose one multibody per view (& only one multibody per sheet)?
Cheers,
Kevin