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The following procedure steps you through creating an Assembly Method drawing.

  1. In the Management Console, right-click the root level of the hierarchy and select New > More on the shortcut menu. On the Add Component Dialog, select Folder and click OK.

    SHARED Tip You could also select an existing folder in the hierarchy and skip this step.

  2. Right-click the folder and select New > More. On the Add Component Dialog, go to the Ship tab. Select an Assembly Method drawing component. For example, select the Assembly Method component and click OK. The New Assembly Method component is added to the folder. This is the component you use to create your Assembly Method drawings.

  3. Right-click the new component and select Setup to display the Setup Dialog.

  4. On the General Tab, note the View Builder definition. For the delivered Assembly Method component, one View is already defined.

    You can add views and add views to reports as needed to define the contents of your drawings.

  5. 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 assembly method drawings you are creating.

  6. Go to the Queries Tab (Setup Dialog - Drawings by Rule) to set up the query definition for the assembly method drawings. The query definition identifies the objects in the model that will be included in the drawing.

  7. 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.

  8. Specify a filter to identify the objects used in the query. For an assembly method drawing, the profiles you select do not have to be manufactured. For example, the graphic below shows that the SeqAssy filter is being used for the Assembly Method view type.

    Notice that the Collation Rule for the Assembly Method setup is already set to CollateAssemblyStep. This collation rule identifies the parts that make up an assembly, then creates a view for each part in the assembly and one view for the "final" assembly.

  9. Click Apply Filter Apply Filter ICON 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 Setup dialog on the Queries Tab (Setup Dialog - Drawings by Rule).

  10. 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 that you can edit the layout and presentation for the drawings you are creating.

  11. After you finish setting up the Assembly Method component, right-click the component and select Create Drawing to create the drawing documents. The new documents display in the Detail View. The red X icon indicates that the drawings are out-of-date (the current model information needs to be updated in the drawing views).

  12. 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.

  13. 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. Notice that the up-to-date documents are now available.

  14. Right-click the document and select the Edit Command to open it in the SmartSketch Drawing Editor.

If you need to create a customized Assembly drawing component, create a Drawings by Rule component and define it as an Assembly drawing component.