Got a bit of a strange one I can't wrap my head around.
I've got an assembly (circular aluminium profile), that is split down the middle. There is a joining plate sub-assembly used here that secures each half together. The joining plate sub-assem has it's own master drawing that is modelled as a flat piece. The plate is then rolled in house to suit, using a bend plot. I'll try to outline what my problem is:
- In the main assembly, I've inserted the joining plate assembly, so it calls correctly in the BoM. It visually looks wrong in my drawings so to get around this, I've hidden it from certain views. This raises questions about how robust the drawings are as they do not reflect what is being built in a way.
- In order to give the correct bend plot, I've modelled a extrusion mimicking the plate in my profile, and then used that to show the correct radius. Then I've hidden this in my cut list.
In an ideal world, I want an assembly that can be used as a dummy model, but instead of calling up the dummy model in the BoM, it pulls the master part number.
There's a few more complexities to this, but I'll leave them for now. Cheers in advance for any help. Can send images if needed.
