I have a drawing of a large assembly that keeps moving inside the view. The view position is locked. The view has a break, but I haven’t changed that and it does not move relative to the assembly. The problem is some sketch curves and numerous callouts have to be fixed when the assembly moves.
I don’t know what’s moving the assembly position. Might be a reference plane that someone is fiddling with. As far as I know, there’s no way to do what I am asking, but I thought I’d check.
Thanks
Dwight
Is the assembly built on some skeleton concept that moves as its configured? Or is your assembly loced to the origin?
No skeleton or such. The major subassemblies are mated to the assembly main reference planes.
Is the assembly/parts configurable in size such that its changing in length?
What is the issue? You open the drawing and the view has moved to out of bounds or close to because of that? The assembly moves and the cuts remain at a previous position rather then the position it was relative to the assembly?
try the model break view.
The reason a view will jump around on a drawing is that it is not fixed in the part or assembly. I have seen some strange things where detail views would jump around like crazy with a skeleton assembly as we copied everything to make a new version.
Creating break views in drawings are also problematic. I end up dimensioning to the break lines to keep them from jumping around, and they have been auto hiding.
If I am attempting to break an assembly/ pipe routing or other long assembly I will use the model break view since it will give a decent ISO view for the drawing when it is applied and I am not doing 5 detail views to make a broken ISO view that you can actually make out on the print.
What version are on you on?
I’ve tried breaking the view several times, adding a detail view. I didn’t lock view position. Then went to model and create distance mates from the origin and moved the assembly off to the origin in all directions. To my surprise, nothing was lost, everything stayed put. This is 2025 sp3 so maybe they did some work on this as I know in the past this was problematic.
When you say “drawing”, do you mean the drawing or the model? If it’s the 2d drawing, you can lock the view.
If it’s the model that’s moving, are you able to move the component around in the model view? Are there any “-” (unconstrained) symbols in the tree?
If it’s the assembly model moving, you’ll need to diagnose what everything is mated to and fix some component either by constraining to the main planes or fixing in place, preferably somewhere known and logical.