Hello.
I have been drafting in Catia v5 for over a year, but without any formal training. Therefore, I know I'm often doing things in inefficient or even harmful ways.
My problem is simple:
In all of my projection views (Plan, Front, Side, ISO), I need to show ONLY my part.
In all section cut views I need to show background data AND my part.
Things I've done so far with varying levels of success:
1)Prepare entire drawing using an assembly with only my parts visible. background data is hidden.
After I've completed everything else, I switch to my assembly and unhide my background data. Then I update only the views which I'd like to include sections.
This gives me the exact results I want, but is a huge pain in the butt. It also breaks links and forces me to use views which aren't up to date.
2) In the assembly, I can change a part's drafting properties to "DO not show in projcetion views"
This seems like exactly what I need, however checking the box has no effect.
3) I've just learned of Scenes, and I assume these are the answers to my problems. I have created two different scenes within the assembly. In the first scene, only my part is visible. In the second scene, everything is visible.
I create my front view using the "part_only" scene, which works exactly as i'd expect.
Now, I need to create 3 or 4 section cuts, each of which must included the background data.
But I can't change the projection plane, since this is not a generative view, and I can't figure any other way to change the scene.
I /could/ create a front view using the "everything_visible" scene and use that to cut all my sections, then hide the original front view and create a second front view using my "part_only" scene.
That seems like an even worse work around then i was doing back at (1).
Can anyone tell me the correct way to accomplish what I want?
Thanks,
Nick
I have been drafting in Catia v5 for over a year, but without any formal training. Therefore, I know I'm often doing things in inefficient or even harmful ways.
My problem is simple:
In all of my projection views (Plan, Front, Side, ISO), I need to show ONLY my part.
In all section cut views I need to show background data AND my part.
Things I've done so far with varying levels of success:
1)Prepare entire drawing using an assembly with only my parts visible. background data is hidden.
After I've completed everything else, I switch to my assembly and unhide my background data. Then I update only the views which I'd like to include sections.
This gives me the exact results I want, but is a huge pain in the butt. It also breaks links and forces me to use views which aren't up to date.
2) In the assembly, I can change a part's drafting properties to "DO not show in projcetion views"
This seems like exactly what I need, however checking the box has no effect.
3) I've just learned of Scenes, and I assume these are the answers to my problems. I have created two different scenes within the assembly. In the first scene, only my part is visible. In the second scene, everything is visible.
I create my front view using the "part_only" scene, which works exactly as i'd expect.
Now, I need to create 3 or 4 section cuts, each of which must included the background data.
But I can't change the projection plane, since this is not a generative view, and I can't figure any other way to change the scene.
I /could/ create a front view using the "everything_visible" scene and use that to cut all my sections, then hide the original front view and create a second front view using my "part_only" scene.
That seems like an even worse work around then i was doing back at (1).
Can anyone tell me the correct way to accomplish what I want?
Thanks,
Nick