{"id":8512,"date":"2021-03-09T12:05:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T11:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cadbooster.com\/?p=8512"},"modified":"2021-03-09T12:08:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T11:08:12","slug":"bend-to-bend-dimensions-and-smarter-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cadbooster.com\/nl\/bend-to-bend-dimensions-and-smarter-balloons\/","title":{"rendered":"Bend-to-bend dimensions and smarter balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another month, another Drew update.<\/p>\n

The number of companies that use Drew is growing rapidly (yay!). Because of this, we received loads of feedback from trial users and existing customers in the past few months.<\/p>\n

So thank you all for reporting strange issues that only seem to occur in your particular workflow. Every comment makes Drew better.<\/p>\n

Add bend-to-bend dimensions to flat patterns<\/h3>\n

The biggest new feature is dimensions for flat patterns. One of our customers, a sheet metal shop, asked for this. This feature is not meant for engineers, because your supplier usually makes their own flat pattern anyway.<\/p>\n

When Drew adds a flat pattern, we can now also add what we call bend-to-bend dimensions<\/em>. If you have a better name, please let us know \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Drew gets all bend lines from your flat pattern, creates groups of horizontal and vertical lines and adds a dimension between each two. You can then decide which ones you want to keep or delete.<\/p>\n

This only works with horizontal and vertical bend lines for now, which should cover about 80% of bend lines. We’ll try to add diagonal lines soon.<\/p>\n

\"solidworks<\/p>\n

To enable this option, go into the settings >\u00a0Flat patterns\u00a0<\/em>>\u00a0Add bend-to-bend dimensions.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"flat<\/p>\n

Use cut list folder names for sheet names<\/h3>\n

When you create body sheets, you can now use the name of the cut list folder as the sheet name.\u00a0 This makes navigating the drawing much easier.<\/p>\n

\"cut<\/p>\n

You can enable this in the settings > Sheet names<\/em> > Body sheets<\/em> > Use cut list folder name<\/em><\/p>\n

\"cut<\/p>\n

Better balloon positions<\/h3>\n

One of Drew’s greatest features is the ability to add a sheet per unique body<\/a> (weldment or not, we even rotate a weldment body and add a flat pattern for a sheet metal body). Drew then adds views, outer dimensions, notes and a balloon, all according to your preferences.<\/p>\n

We now improved these balloons in two ways. First, we let you choose whether to add the balloon to the first 2D view or to the first 3D view. Until now, we would add the balloon to the first 2D view.<\/p>\n

Second, we now move the balloon until it’s no longer over the view. Under the hood, we try to select a face at each corner point of the box around the balloon. When the selection fails, we know that that specific corner is not over the view. This approach works in about 90% of cases.<\/p>\n

\"solidworks<\/p>\n

First angle projection \/ European projection<\/h3>\n

From now on, Drew will read the first\/third angle setting from the current sheet and display the correct projected views in the user interface.<\/p>\n

\"solidworks<\/p>\n

For each blueprint, you can set a toggle in the settings so the settings also use first angle projection.<\/p>\n

\"Drew<\/p>\n

AutoFit improvements<\/h3>\n

AutoFit is our technology for fitting all views, tables and blocks onto a sheet every time you make a significant change. It saves you loads of clicks and seconds dragging around views, trying a new scale, then dragging around views again.<\/p>\n

It’s great when AutoFit works as you expect it to, but it’s pretty annoying when it doesn’t.<\/p>\n

So we made three improvements:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Added more sheet scales in the settings, so you can now use numbers like 3.5 to create scales like 35 to 1 and 1 to 3.5. Don’t select all of them though, this will make AutoFit slower because it may try each scale.<\/li>\n
  2. Added a\u00a0Tight fit<\/em> option. Check this checkbox so that AutoFit starts with close to zero space around each view. Sometimes this allows a better fit.<\/li>\n
  3. Drew uses a different mode when there are no regular 2D views, but only a 3D view and a flat pattern, for example. This mode is now better at fitting multiple views on the sheet without overlap.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"solidworks<\/p>\n

    Other improvements<\/h3>\n

    We made dozens of smaller improvements under the hood. These are the changes that you might notice, though:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Added button in the settings to copy a blueprint<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    2. Made adding dimensions to weldment bodies more consistent.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Bug fixes<\/h3>\n

      Together with our customers, we noticed a few bugs in the past month and fixed them:<\/p>\n

        \n
      • Fixed bodies in sub-weldments not getting their own sheet<\/li>\n
      • Fixed interference with CAD2M add-in<\/li>\n
      • Fixed showing flat pattern section in the UI for body sheet<\/li>\n
      • Fixed projected views that showed up as isometric views<\/li>\n
      • Fixed exporting unsaved drawings<\/li>\n
      • Fixed export status because it was hidden immediately<\/li>\n
      • Fixed allowing too large margins, which caused saving the settings to fail<\/li>\n
      • Fixed error when Drew cannot find the third view for an angle dimension<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        What\u2019s next?<\/h3>\n

        Now that we tackled bend-to-bend dimensions and a bunch of smaller improvements, it’s time to think ahead again.<\/p>\n

        For the next few versions, we’d like to improve Drew’s ability to work with existing drawings. Drew is great at starting new drawings but lacks editing tools.<\/p>\n

        We’ll also be switching to a better licensing platform (one that takes less than three weeks to respond to our emails) and we’re improving exports.<\/p>\n

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