2D collapsed drawings/ Making 2D prints of wireframed solids

[RMagnusson]

I need to send a file to someone for patent work. Currently I have a solid MC file of the part. He is probably explaining what I need to do better than I could so I'll just quote his email: "Ideally, {what}I need is just the 2D collapsed drawing from each side and an isometric, provided in dwg format. Since everything is lines, arcs and polylines, dxf would be ok in that case too. Can you create this kind of view, where it's not just a top view of the model, but a true 2D image where all the hidden lines are gone and everything is on one plane?"

 

Sounds easy, can it be done simply? I really don't want to go through the thing and manually break each entity for the various top, bottom, left, right, front, back views.

 

Thanks,

Ryan

[Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc]

try the Solids - Layout function

[edmBosto]

If you have access to pro e I would use that as I believe it would be the easiest.

JM2C

 

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EDIT!

 

Cool!

I just tried out the solid layout as Steven suggested on a rather involved solid.

Very nice!

I like That suggestion better than pro e.

 

Thanks Steve I never tried it before.

[RMagnusson]

Bingo! Solid layout! THANKS!!!!!

 

Don't have proE or I'd give it a try too.