Well, here’s another definition from the old school:
Back in the way old days of Sparcstations, etc., regen times were painful for small extruded cuts used to emboss or engrave symbols, text, logos, etc.
The trick I used was to create the cut from a datum curve. Suppressing the cut, except for the tooling model, left me a datum curve outline, which produced a perfectly usable drawing, and saved a ton of time.
Another way around that, if the tooling is standard (for example, identification stamps like serial numbers and dates) or otherwise not defined on the detail drawing, is to use a symbol. Here’s one created from .ai, exported to .iges, imported back into a drawing, and saved as a symbol:
You can locate symbols quite accurately if you locate a bounding box on the part. Just change the curve line type to phantom, scale the symbol to fit the box, and you can show overall size on your drawing.
Tags: old school, symbols