Expired drawings

This exercise shows what happens when a shop drawing becomes expired after the 3D model has changed.

- Open the drawing Expired drawings.dwg

- Click on Sheets manager

- Double-click the drawing PL12 Fase 1

We will search for this plate and correct it.

- Activate the tab Positions in the Sheets manager

- Select PL12 using the left mouse button

- Right-click on PL12 and then choose Zoom and show properties for part from the list

The properties of one part with position number PL12 is shown.

- Click on the icon Review macro

- Select the macro that we're going to correct

- Enlarge the plate by 50 on 2 sides

- Press the button

- Activate the tab Bolts and enter 70 for the edge distances.

- And then click to close this window

- Move the cursor to above the modified plate, then right-click and choose Parabuild > Generate position drawing from the list.

- Click on

This is a useful tool to quickly generate the sheet to review it.

However it doesn't allow us to use a phase selection.

- Click on the new PL12 drawing, right-click and then choose Delete sheet from the list.

- Click on the button and then click on Generate Pos + assembly sheets

- Click on

- For the parts to be handled, choose Phase 1

- And then click on

Parabuild has reviewed all existing drawings and has tagged all the expired drawings with a yellow warning sign : PL12, PR14, PR25, M16, M17, M35.

There were also new shop drawings generated for the parts that didn't have a drawing yet, in this case a new shop drawing for all the modified parts and assemblies.

Normally we should delete all these expired drawings so that we won't mistakenly print them.