Working in the sheetmetal tool, I've found that you can have multiple planars, representing multiple piece parts that would be created by manufacturing, assembled into and then delivered as one part having one part number. These separate templates ( 1 of 3, 2 of 3 and 3 of 3) would all be put on the same sheet of the drawing. This is how our manufacturing has handled drawings in the past and how they and the installation crew prefer it.
Each planar is defined to its own unique datum plane which is driven off of copy geometry. I am using a unbend and bendback, one each with each planar (3 planars, 3 unbend/bendback). When I create each new unbend, it requires me to choose a planar and then select each bend individually, but no issues there - works as expected. The unbends work automatically.
I am also using a family table with the unbends suppressed/turned off in the only instance, giving me a flat state of the model. This flat instance is what I'm using to generate my drawing.
I am trying to create some simplified reps in the generic that carry over to the instance and then can be used in the drawing but am running into some issues. I am able to create a simp rep of the first planar with everything below its unbend excluded. Works beautifully. The problem is when I attempt to exclude the first planar and all associated flats and include anything beyond that. It seems everything is tied to that first set of planar/flats and if it's excluded everything else below it is too, no options. Therefor, I can't get simp reps of just the second planar/flats or the third, which is what I need for the three separate views that will go on the drawing.
In the past, we've used IDEAS or using Creo, at some point in the modeling process, converted to a sketch to generate the drawing but this breaks the association that I'm trying to keep.
So, bottom line: how do create simp reps of certain planars and associated flats while having multiple sets of planar/flats in the same sheetmetal.prt?