Upgrading Views

You can upgrade sheets, views and also sketched geometry in the views. This will let you benefit from the latest technological enhancements brought to sketched geometry in V6 while saving you the need to transfer geometry in new views.

Note: The sketched geometry is directly drawn in 2D. Features other than sketched geometry will not be upgraded, such as geometry generated from 3D, annotations, dimensions, dress-up elements and so on.

Before you begin: Open a drawing representation, or a 2D layout representation containing views with sketched geometry. As you cannot upgrade geometry in locked views, make sure that the views whose geometry you want to upgrade are not locked. You can unlock a view through its properties.

Note: For the purpose of our scenario, we will upgrade sketched geometry.

  1. Go to Tools > Options > Mechanical > Drafting > Administration tab. In the Drawing management area, clear the Disable view upgrade check box.

    This activates the Upgrade contextual command that is available for drawings, layouts, sheets and views.

    Important: If this check box is selected, the Upgrade command is not accessible and the Disable view geometry upgrade option is unavailable.

  2. Clear the Disable view geometry upgrade check box.

    Note: With this option, the Upgrade command also upgrades the geometry. Because it is not possible to upgrade the geometry without upgrading the view.

  3. Perform one of the following actions:

    • To upgrade sketched geometry (including background geometry) for all views of all sheets (including detail sheets) in a drawing or a layout, right-click the drawing or layout representation in the specification tree, and select Drawing object > Upgrade in the case of a drawing or Layout object > Upgrade in the case of a layout.
    • To upgrade working and background sheets with sketched geometry (including background geometry) for all views (including detail views) in a drawing or a layout sheet, right-click the sheet in the specification tree and select Sheet.n object > Upgrade.
    • To upgrade sketched geometry for a selection of views (including detail views) in a drawing or layout, right-click the views in the specification tree or on the sheet and select Selected objects > Upgrade.
    • To upgrade sketched geometry for a single view in a drawing or a layout, right-click the view in the specification tree or on the sheet and select X view object > Upgrade.

Sketched geometry is upgraded in the selected drawing, layout, sheets or views. Dress-up, annotations and dimensions that are linked to the upgraded geometry are updated.

Important:
  • In a 2D Layout for 3D Design context, a manual update of 3D geometry or of some 3D geometry features (such as 3D outputs or use-edges) is sometimes necessary. In such a case, the views are set as being not up-to-date and Update is automatically activated in the Tools toolbar.
  • Occasionally, following an upgrade, some 2D elements may be moved, deleted or their orientation reversed. In this case, annotations, dimensions or dress-up element linked to these 2D elements will also be impacted.
  • The version number of upgraded views is incremented so as to mark the document as modified.