Automatically Generating Dress-up Features

Using Generative View Styles (GVS) gives you access to the dress-up capabilities in the Drafting workbench when working on Electrical Harness Flattening documents.

The Automatic Generation command allows you to automatically generate and update Conductor Annotations and Text Templates on electrical components in the Drafting workbench. Support Section Views can be visualized in the drawing. The Electrical Language Dictionary is loaded in session by the Automatic Generation command and Text Templates having electrical attributes are generated.

You can store the Text Template in an existing Catalog and you can store this Catalog in the Using Electrical Catalogs or Chapters in Project Resource Management.

Before you begin:

You have set up your environment to use the GVS: for example, you have selected the GVS_sample_1.xml. Please refer to Customizing a Drawing View.

In Tools > Standards > Generative Parameters > CloudSample > Drafting > Generate > 3DPoint/ Wireframe, set the options to Yes if you want to generate Text Templates.

  1. Open the flattened document.



  2. Switch to the Drafting workbench and open a new drawing document.

  3. Click Front View and select the top-face of the rectangular connector as Plane. The drawing document updates according to this choice.



  4. Click Automatic Generation . The drawing is updated according to the generative view style previously defined:



    Automatic Generation options are stored within the GVS. The following example shows the definition of the segment template, with a predefined type of text template:

    Text Templates are generated on:

    • segments
    • protective coverings
    • supports
    • connectors (single insert connectors, ground studs, internal splices, external splices, terminal strips and terminal blocks)
    • Backshells

    Wire Annotations are generated on:

    • Segments
    • connectors (single insert connectors, ground studs, internal splices, external splices, terminal strips and terminal blocks)

    Support Sections are generated on:

    • a ditto for each support section, with
    • appropriate labels on the support itself and on the section for easy identification.

    2D Clocking View is generated for:

    • Backshell and SIC relative orientation

    Text Templates, Conductor Annotations , Support Sections and 2D Clocking View are defined in the GVS. They are placed at a default location but can be moved for better legibility or presentation. To do so:

    1. Drag the annotation you want to move:



    2. Release the mouse button when you are satisfied with the new position.

  5. If you modify the original 3D document for example to:

    • Change a segment diameter
    • Change a connector / device position
    • Add or remove a branch, etc.

    You will need to update the drawing. To do so:

    1. First click Synchronize to reflect the modifications of the geometry on the flattened document. For more information, please refer to About Synchronization.
    2. Then click Update Current Sheet to reflect the modifications of the geometry on the drawing.
    3. Finally click Update Dress-up to:


      • Delete the Conductor Annotations sections no longer used.
      • Add the new ones corresponding to the modifications of the geometry.
      • Update the existing ones, keeping the position if it has previously been changed.

        Note: This command updates the Text Templates that were created manually or generated automatically via Automatic Generation.

      • Update a 2D Clocking View:
        • When 2D Details of Backshell, SIC and Datum have already been created, they can be updated with the Update-Dress Up command, i.e. if orientation between Backshell and SIC is modified in flatten harness, the 2D Clocking View will be updated thanks to Update-Dress Up.
        • If you change the Part Number of a device in the flatten harness, then the 2D Detail corresponding to the previous Part Number will be deleted and a 2D Detail corresponding to the new Part Number will be created.
        • If you change only the Instance Name of a device in the flatten harness and its Clocking View has already been created, you run the Update Dress-up command, therefore the old 2D Detail will be retained and no new 2D Detail will be created.
        • If you move all the 2D Details in the Clocking View from their original position and you delete one of them, then you launch Update Dress-up, therefore the new 2D Detail will be created at the offset mentioned in the GVS.
        • In the drawing, if the whole Clocking View (Set of 2D Details of Datum / Backshell and SIC) or a part of it (2D Detail of SIC) is moved from its default location (offset value defined in GVS: 100mm), the Clocking View can be updated at the new position thanks to the Update-Dress Up command.

    Warning:
    • If one of the overlapping 2D Details (i.e. of Datum, Backshell or SIC) is moved, then the other 2D Details will not follow it because the 2D Clocking View does not create 2D Details by grouping. Each 2D Detail is a separate entity that can be dragged within the drawing. After moving a 2D Detail, if you use the Update Dress-up command, the 2D Detail remains in the last position chosen by the user.
    • If the 2D Details of Clocking View are moved under / above the offset value as defined in GVS and if one of the 2D Details is deleted, then when you use the Update Dress-up command, the deleted 2D Detail will be created at the offset value mentioned in GVS. Already existing 2D Details and the Datum will remain at their original location.