Customizing the Drawing

You can create a drawing of the flattened harness using the various representation options:

  • Generative view style Integration: It allows you to store drawing options in the drawing document.
  • Data Setup: It allows you to store drawing resources (catalogs or libraries of 2D details and text templates) in a specific project. Thus, You can manage resources for a given project.
  • The Line Type Standards: To be applied on protective coverings to give a different aspect to these components in the drawing.

This task shows you how to:

Create a Drawing View of the Flattened Harness using Options

You can create a drawing of the flattened harness and use the dress-up capabilities of the Drafting app by selecting specific options.

  1. In the top bar, select Me > Preferences > App Preferences > 3D Modeling .
    The Preferences dialog box appears.
  2. Under Geometry generation / Dress-up, in the Mechanical > Drafting > View expander, select the following options:

    • Project 3D wireframe

    • Project 3D points

  3. Click OK.

Customize a Drawing View in the Generative View Style (GVS)

You can customize the drawing view of electrical parameters, equipment and systems parameters in the generative view style (GVS).

The GVS gives you access to dress-up capabilities in the Drafting app when working on Electrical Manufacturing Preparation documents. It allows you to store customizing options for drawings (single and double Line, 2D detail, 3D projection, text template, etc.). 2D details showing pre-defined Support section views are automatically generated as defined in GVS.

Important:
  • To customize a drawing view, you can use harness flattening parameters but it is highly recommended to use the generative view style. Set the Drafting options as described in Native Apps Preferences Guide: Mechanical: Drafting: View.
  • The generative view style only works on Electrical Manufacturing Preparation data after extraction from the 3D data.

  1. Select Me > Preferences > Standards to set drawing options for electrical parameters and equipment and systems parameters in the GVS.
  2. In the Standard Definition dialog box, select the generativeparameters category and the XML file to customize.
  3. Expand the Default Generative Style node and click below nodes:
    • Electrical: To customize electrical parameters.
    • EquipmentAndSystems: To customize Equipment and systems parameters.

      For more information, see Drafting User's Guide: Administration: Option App-Specific Generative View Style Parameters: Electrical Manufacturing Preparation Parameters.

    For more information about what can be customized in the GVS, see:

  4. In the Drafting app, from the View Layout section of the action bar, click Front View and select a face as Plane in the flattened harness to generate the drawing.
    The electrical components are displayed with their representation, for example:
    • Single line for segments
    • Double line for protective coverings
    • 2D Detail from the previously defined catalog or library for single insert connectors

    For more information, see Generating and Updating the Front View.

Create Line Type Standards

You can create the line type standard for protective coverings that gives a different aspect to these components in the drawing and lets you easily visualize the various overlapping coverings. This functionality is only available when generating drawings using generative view style parameters.

For each basic line type, you must define more than one bi-dimensional line type, increasing its size as you go to obtain one line type per layer of protective covering.

When generating the drawing, the system maps the appropriate line type to each layer of protective covering using a simple formula.

The above illustration also shows 2D details applied to the ends of protective coverings that likewise vary in size according to the covering layer. For more information, see Using the GVS to customize the Drawing with 2D Details.

Before you begin:

  • Start a session in administrator mode. For more information, see Installation and Configuration User's Guide.
  • Specify the location of customized standards by setting the CATCollectionStandard variable. To learn more about the CATCollectionStandard variable, see 3DEXPERIENCE Platform: Working on Objects: Selecting: Selecting Using the Selection Traps.

  1. Select Me > Preferences > Standards.
    The Standard Definition dialog box appears.
  2. In the Category list, select drafting and in the File list, select ANSI.xml.
  3. In the list, select LineTypes .
  4. Click Save As New and save the document with another name in the folder specified by the CATCollectionStandard variable.
    You can customize more than one line type standard that can, for example, allow you to produce drawings having different line types for different customers.
  5. Double-click a line in the list and modify its aspect. Define more than one bi-dimensional line type per basic line type to create, increasing its size as you go to obtain one line type per layer of protective covering.
    The document is updated.

    When creating protective coverings, line types offered in the Line Type list are taken from the Me > Preferences > App Preferences > 3D Modeling > General > Display > Linetype expander.

    To map line types just created in the Preferences dialog box, you must update the list in the Linetype tab.

  6. To update line types:
    1. Select Me > Preferences > App Preferences > 3D Modeling .
    2. In the Preferences dialog box, select General > Display, click Linetype tab, and then double-click one of the line types you have created.
      The Linetype editor dialog box appears.
    3. Select the corresponding line type number previously created and click OK.
      The Linetype list is updated.
    4. Repeat the steps for other line types.
  7. Click OK.

    You can now use this line type standard for your drawings.

    For more information, see: