Supplemental Drawings

 

Doug Fritz

March 23, 2004

General Information:

 

Often it is necessary to create drawings that contains components that are already contained in other drawings

 

The mechanism for accomplishing this is to use a Supplemental Drawings Assembly.

 

The Supplemental Drawings Assembly is an assembly of OneSpace designer containers. Each container contains an assembly, this assembly is generally made up of shared components that are a subset of a higher level assembly. The assembly consists only of the components that you want displayed on your drawing and exists for the sole purpose of having a view set attached to it.

 

Hierarchically the location of the Supplemental Drawings Assembly does not matter, however it is best to locate it at the same level as the assemblies you are describing in the drawings. (See example below)

 

This procedure allows multiple drawings to be created of the same components using the supplemental drawings scheme outlined above.

 

Procedure:

 

  1. Create a container with the name of the drawing that you ultimately want to create, for example BREMSSTRAHLUNG_DRAWING.

 

  1. Create an assembly in the container created in step #1. Name the assembly with the name of the drawing that you ultimately want to create, for examble BREMSSTRAHLUNG _DRAWING.

 

  1. Load the assembly(ies) that contain all of the components that you want to show in your drawing.

 

  1. Pick and then share the components that you want to contain in your drawing. Set the owner of your shared components to be the assembly created in step #2. If you need to modify a component for pictorial reasons make a copy of this component, do not share it.

 

  1. Create a drawing of the assembly you created in step #2. Make sure the view set is owned by the assembly and not the container created in step #1.

 

  1. Check in the your new assembly and drawing. Note: do not check in the container prior to checking in your assembly. Doing so will prevent others from getting new different drawing numbers for additional supplemental drawings they might want to add.

 

  1. Finally, if one does not exist, create an assembly called  “Supplemental Drawings Assembly” at the port level or at the level that is most appropriate.

 

  1. Drag the container that you created in step 1 in to the Supplemental Drawings Assembly.

 

  1. Check the whole bloody mess into work manager using new master record and document. This will allow you to specify a drawing number and edit the title block information as needed.

 

Example:

 

In the example below notice that the Supplemental Drawings Directory is located directly below the End Station Assembly and would contain drawings related to the End Station.

 

Also notice that the Supplemental Drawings Directory is made up of containers and each container contains an assembly.