In our company we design and manufacture large plates with a large number of blind milling operations.
Ideally, in the drawing in Solidworks, we would like to "isolate" each of the different milling operations in order to facilitate understanding and dimensioning.
We have already tried to use cropping but it doesn't give an interesting result because we have to hide many lines.
Has anyone encountered a similar problem and/or a solution to our problem?
You will find an Autocad plan that we would like to make in solidworks with the problem of the different milling pockets.
Edit: the drilling tables (di-cessous) will not work (I hadn't seen that they are blind millings)
Or even a drilling table?
The help section states:
Non-circular holes, such as rectangular holes and slots, are also recognized. The X and Y coordinates of these features are listed in the table by their geometric center, but you must enter the size yourself.
I thought about the detail views, but this solution causes me problems:
- I have to create a lot of detail views (which adds confusion to the plans)
- In the main view, the different operations are identified according to their manufacturing methods (milling, wire erosion,...) with symbols. To do this, we add blocks with these symbols and if we use the detail views, these famous symbols are not present and we should add them manually, those that create inaccuracy and during a possible update of errors.
"remrem" this solution could perhaps be conceivable, I could have more details?
I agree with @remrem on the config. For my part, when I send my plates for laser cutting, my subcontractor specifies that I have several levels of layer, starting from the internal cut to the contour cut.
It allows you to "drop into the hopper" the non-useful parts first.
He used to do it himself but thanks to that I save on his working time and I have saved a significant cost. It takes me 5 min with SW to do the configs and it took me 30 to 45 min to rework his DXF.
Sorry for the delay in my reply, I was not often at my post in recent days.
Remrem, I tested your proposal. It does have the advantage of being simple to manage.
During the design of the part, a configuration is created for each manufacturing method and during the drawing, several sheets can be created or the different configurations can be inserted into several views.
Despite everything, it still causes me some problems.
For example, if the room already has many configurations, it can be tricky to manage.
On Autocad, we chose to represent the different machining operations individually, having different depths, which made it easier for the operator to understand and avoided many strong line crossings.
With your answers, I will define a working methodology adapted to Solidworks and our way of working.