We have a wire mesh that is made of ,047 dia wires and .125 spacing. The mesh we need is about a 12" circle.
We have modeled the full circle, but for the drawing we need to show a cut-away so we can detail the support bar weldment under the mesh.
Currently the designer has done an extrude of his cutout shape and subtracted this from the model. This is obviously not the proper method as the weight changes and we never have the full circle mesh to show at the next higher level. It is also causing the publishing of this model file and any higher level assemblies to fail because of the time needed to process the 'cutout'. I have doubled the publish.cadtimeout value in Windchill and it is still failing. Component is set to 1800, drawing to 2400 on the last failure. I am trying again with component set to 2400.
The mesh is made by drawing to cylinders 80 degrees to each other and then patterning them to the width needed. We have then drawn 2 concentric circles and subtracted the 'washer' shape to trim the square to a circle. The designer added a spline surface to form the section cut tied to the out diameter and then subtracted that for his drawing shape. I want to improve the model so we have the full circle mesh for weight and upper level assemblies but can still have the cutout of the mesh for the immediate assembly level.
Is there a way to do a detail view cutout of a single part at the assembly level that has pieces to be shown below the cut away section?
I have thought about a family table, where -1 instance is the full diameter and the -2 instance is the cut away one. I don't think this is the 'proper' method for a family table, but it would work for the views, not sure about the publishing.
Any suggestions will be appreciated as it is driving my crazy not being able to publish the files.