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This CATIA tutorial shows you how to Create Scenes and use them for Draughting

Ever created an isometric view in the Draughting work bench of an assembly, then changed the location of parts in an assembly and when you go back to your drawing you find it has updated the drawing to that of the assembly. This is good to have as it is part of the power of CATIA with its associativity. But sometimes you want views to keep their positions, i.e. you want an assembled isometric view as well as an exploded view.

We have our assembly…

We create an isometric view…

Now the problem arises when you edit the main assembly and then the drawing up dates as well. So we need to create a scene, for exploded views or even where only specific parts are shown.

Make sure you select the full overload option before clicking OK.

Hide, show, move and rotate parts until you get the view you want and then click to exit the scene (same icon as exit sketcher), you can see in the tree that there is a new Scene.1 that has been created.

Here are only a few parts that need to be shown…

An exploded view…

Now to apply these scenes to the drawing, double click on the scene you want, then from the Draughting workbench create a view and in your assembly which should be in the scene you want click on the Scene you want in the tree first, then click on the model to generate the view.