The following procedure steps you through creating a profile sketch drawing. This procedure shows how to create a profile sketch with one part per sheet. See Create a multiple profile sketch drawing for information on creating a profile sketch with multiple profiles per sheet.
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Right-click the drawing root in the Management Console and select New > More to open the Add Component Dialog. Select Folder and click OK.
You could also select an existing folder in the hierarchy and skip this step.
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Right-click the folder and select New > More to open the Add Component Dialog. Go to the Manufacturing tab and select a Profile Sketch drawing component. For example, select the Mfg Profile Sketch component and click OK to add the New Mfg Profile Sketch component to the folder. This is the component you use to create your Profile Sketch drawings.
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Right-click the new component and select Setup on the shortcut menu to display the Setup dialog.
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On the General tab, note the View Builder definition. For the delivered Mfg Profile Sketch component, one View and one Report are already defined.
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You can select a view or report and click Properties
to display the View Definition Dialog showing the current property settings for the view or report. Change the properties
as needed for the profile sketch drawings you are creating.
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Go to the Queries Tab (Setup Dialog - Drawings by Rule) tab to set up the query definition for the profile sketch drawings. The query definition identifies the objects in the model that will be included in the drawing.
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In the Select view type drop-down list, select the view type to which you want the query associated. You can define separate queries per view type or you can use a default query for multiple view types.
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Specify a filter to identify the objects used in the query. For a profile sketch drawing, you want to select an assembly that contains the manufactured profiles you need for your drawings. For example, the graphic below shows that the SeqAssy filter is being used for the Mfg Profile Sketch view type.
Notice that the Collation Rule for the Mfg Profile Sketch setup is already set to CollateToMany, which means that the drawings will have one part per view.
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Click Apply Filter
to run the filter definition. The rest of the dialog updates with additional definition
information.
You can further define the view definition using the buttons at the bottom of the
Queries Tab (Setup Dialog - Drawings by Rule).
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If you need to edit the template associated with the drawing component, right click the component and select Edit Template (Drawings by Rule). The template associated with the component opens in the SmartSketch Drawing Editor so you can edit the layout and presentation for the drawings you are creating.
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After you complete setup of the Profile Sketch component, right-click the component and select Create Drawings to create the drawing documents. The new documents display. The red X icon
indicates that the drawings are out-of-date (the current model information needs
to be updated in the drawing views).
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Right-click the component again and select Update to update the drawing documents with the information from the model. A dialog shows the update progress.
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When the process is complete, review the information in the dialog for any problems that may have occurred, then click OK to close the dialog.
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Right-click the document and select Edit to open it in the SmartSketch Drawing Editor.
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If you need to create a customized Manufacturing drawing component, create a Drawings by Rule component and define it as a Manufacturing drawing component.
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By default, the Manufacturing .xml file does not show all the data. When you use the Draw from Manufacturing XML query, manufacture the profile using the following Smart 3D Rules Configuration Manager settings:
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Structural Manufacturing > Manufacturing Profile - Process > User Defined Values > ExtractProfileSketchGeometries - set to Based on Feature Symbols
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Structural Manufacturing > Manufacturing Profile - Process Selector and Parameter > Parameter > ProfileMfgAsPlate - set the Output Control to Profile-Profile
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