About Views Created from FTA Views or Capture

You can create views in a 2D layout representation from an FTA (Functional Tolerancing & Annotations) view, plane or sketch or from an FTA capture. The following topics are discussed:

Related Topics
Creating a View From an FTA View
Creating a Filtered View From an FTA Capture
Layout View Filters Dialog Box

About Views Created from FTA Views

This sub-topic provides more information about views created from FTA views.

General Information

From an FTA view, you can create only auxiliary views, section views and section cut.

Annotations

To be generated in views from FTA views, annotations must fulfill all the following criteria:


  • They must belong to the extracted 3D shape.
  • They must belong to a view parallel to the extraction plane, whose normal is not opposite to the extraction plane normal.
  • They must not be in No Show space at view generation or update
  • They must not be masked by a filter applied to the 2DL view. More precisely:
    • if there is a mask or an equivalent filter: filtered annotations are not generated.
    • if there is a display filter: listed annotations are not generated.

Associativity


  • The 2D layout views are associative with the 3D FTA views.
  • At creation, by default, the layout view name is the FTA view name. However, this name is not associative.
  • The layout view properties are not associative with the FTA view properties. As for all other layout views, they are customized via Tools > Options > Mechanical > 2D Layout for 3D Design.
  • At creation, the 2D Layout view scale is inverse to the FTA view ratio.

Changing the View Support to an Assembly Support

When changing the support of a view to an assembly support, you cannot select a FTA capture which is located outside the 3D shape.

Inversion

At creation or at modification, it is possible to invert the normal (N) of all 2DL views, except for projection views (Front, Rear, Left, Right, Top, Bottom and Isometric views).

Mirrored Annotations

When editing a layout from FTA, mirrored annotations are displayed in their creation position, (both in the 2D layout views and in the 3D window). This ensures that the FTA annotations are readable in the layout.

Offset Nodes

You can create a 2D Layout view by selecting the sub-elements of an FTA Offset node, but you cannot select the Offset node itself.

Tip

When working in a FTA context, you can enter the 2D Layout for 3D Design workbench each time you need to print complex drawings. Then you can print several views in the same sheet, display only relevant data in a view, include a title block, create a drawing, etc.

About Views Created from FTA Captures

This sub-topic provides more information about views created from FTA captures.

General Information

When creating a view from a FTA capture, the capture definition is saved in a layout as an equivalent filter (mask filter type).

Once created, the filters equivalent to FTA captures are accessible from the Layout View filters dialog box and can be applied to any kind of layout views. However, these filters are not editable.

Note that it is not possible to create a view from a FTA capture which is located outside the 3D shape.

FTA Capture Must Be Associative to FTA View

The selected FTA capture must be associative with a FTA view, because this view indicates the 2D layout view plane.

For more details, read Managing Tolerancing Capture Options in the Functional Tolerancing & Annotation user's guide.

Visualization of 3D Objects

3D objects in the background of the created 2D layout view are visualized in the same way as 3D objects in the associated FTA capture. Therefore, the content of the selected capture must be visible in the FTA workbench in order to be displayed in the 2D layout view. Make sure that elements are not in No show mode when proceeding.

Note: In filtered views created from FTA captures, sub-assemblies are now visualized similarly to the FTA capture.

Equivalent Filters


  • The Edit command is not available for equivalent filters.
  • From an equivalent filter, the New from... command creates a classical filter, which is not associative with the FTA capture.
  • Deleting its reference FTA capture does not delete the related equivalent filter.
  • Only one filter can be created from a FTA capture. If several 2D layout views are created from the same FTA capture, the same equivalent filter is re-used to filter the created views.
  • Once a filter has been created, its name does not support national languages (it is not translated).
  • In the case of views created from FTA captures contained in the same 3D shape, the view background filters only FTA elements that belong to this 3D shape. In filtered views created from FTA captures, sub-assemblies are visualized similarly to the FTA capture.