ROUTING Drawing - Dimensioning an Isometric View

3D Design Routing
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Hello

 

We are working on Solidworks Routing in my company and a problem arises with the drawings of the pipes. If you insert an isometric view of a pipe line into a drawing and you want to dimension directly on it, it is not necessarily possible to select the pipe centerlines to get the dimension if they are not in the same direction (1 following X and 1 following Z). The method of placing sketch points in the corner of the elbows does not work because the dimensions generated are wrong (even if the option "dimension type: true" is checked).

On the other hand, if in the piping line assembly, you go through -> right-click on the line name -> Piping Drawing, Solidworks automatically generates an isometric view with the construction lines in the center of the pipes and places points at the corner of each bend. This allows the dimension to select these points and thus have correct dimensions.

The story could end there. The problem is that with the second method, Solidworks chooses the isometric view of the model and this one is not necessarily the best. I would therefore like to be able to generate the piping annotations on a drawing view that I have previously created (Ex : View palette -> In progress).

Does anyone know how to do it?

 

Thank you in advance.

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Hello

No choice, here's what I do:

  • Using Your Method 2
  • Re-orientation of the view -> loss of dimensions automatically
  • Dimensioning with axes and connection points

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I got the answer from the sopport.

Two solutions: We use the current view of the model, we lose the automatic dimensioning. We go to the drawing view, we scroll down the tree to routing and then right-click -> show the routing. It allows us to dimension with the sketch points.

Second solution, in the 3D view we redefine the front view until we find the configuration that fits well in the isometric view. The automatic rating will therefore be generated. PLEASE NOTE, automatic dimensions are not made from the elbow to the flat face of the collar but to the collar/pipe junction. So the thickness of the collar is missing...

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