Hi
I need to produce a series of frames made from flanged plasma cut steel. There is a central section and mirrored wings, some with edge flanges. Modelling is no problem, creating the mirror sides by mirroring in the assembly and saving the mirrored element as a config.
Each part has a sketch on the fold reference face with marking information that needs to be plasma etched - this needs to show up in the drawings as well as the partname being etched on - preferably using an annotation in the drawing (using CAMworks font and adding it to the marking sketch in the part causes problems with mirroring and saving to DWG/DXF).
What I need to do is produce drawing files of the flat patterns for each part. For non flanged parts, this should be a case of producing a template with front and back views, but if you create predefined views, it seems to default to turning off the marking sketch, meaning that you have to go in to each view and turn them back on. I can't figure out how to stop it doing this?
I also need both handed views of the flat pattern configs (Default FLAT PATTERN and MIRROR FLAT PATTERN) in one drawing. This gives me the minimum number of drawings to keep control of and transfer to DWG and the nesting software.
What I require is a macro to produce the drawings for me based on the configs:
Single config: Produce a FRONT view with the marking sketch visible and add a annotation with the part file name in the centre of the part.
Mirrored config (no sheet metal features): Produce FRONT and BACK views with the marking sketch visible and the part name annotation in the middle of the part. The part name doesn't require any addition to show config - as the parts are symmetric, doesn't really matter which side the writing ends up on).
Mirrored config with Flat patterns: Produce FLAT PATTERN views of both configs, marking sketch visible in both and partname annotation in both.

Ideally I could run this on a folder of parts and tell it to ignore parts starting with STIFF (flat bar and square bar stiffeners that don't require part drawings). Having the option to save them out as DWG/DXF files as well to the same directory would be good, with the sketches a different colour / layer to the cutting outlines of the part, so I can import it to the nesting software quickly.

I'd be willing to pay if anyone has such a macro they'd be willing to share or develop for me - how much is open to negotiation as I don't have the skill/time to meld together the various bits of macro that are flating about to do this kind of work. I can supply example assemblies to test the system on if required.
This is an immediate requirement as I have a heap of parts to model and would rather my energy be put in to that end, rather than manually creating drawings for each setup.
Any queries, please contact me via my webiste at www.djaweb.co.uk
Thanks
Deri