Update Drawings

Any parts highlighted in red can be updated automatically. Select a specific component or a parent and only the parts contained in these are updated. If you select the "Model" entry, all parts are updated.

Selecting the context menu after having selected the part, use the entry Update only modified 2D-drawing to activate the modification mechanism. However, if you want to force also an update of non-modified (green) parts to replace e.g. the detailing by another detail style you have to select the entry Update 2D-drawing in the context menu.

One by one, all of the affected drawings are opened in the background, the parts are newly detailed and inserted directly into the original drawing position, replacing the old ones. Should you have one of these drawings open at the time, you can watch this replacement happen live right in front of you.

Subsequent Modifications

Depending on the settings in the work tools of component overview, modifications of the details, which you carried out later, will be adopted again. This is of course only possible to a limited extent.

At the very moment, moving of position flags, weld marks, height indicators and of dimension texts in all 2D-drawings as well as modifications of sketch display at overviews are adopted. If a dynamic drawing parts list possibly exists, it will also be updated in the case the component parts have changed.

Note: Only the position of the dimension text can be restored (in the case that you sorted out unfavourably placed texts), but not the dimension itself or modifications of the dimension text. To avoid a reset of such modifications, you can protect them against update.

This procedure might take some time to complete; then all plans are once again current and the latest detail blocks are ready for insertion. Use the ‘Display only Latest Blocks’ option for the insertion to place the details.

Note: You should remember, however, that the modification mechanism functions optimally only if the tips and notes from the previous chapters are observed and if you proceed correspondingly at 3D-modelling and positioning as well. You should, therefore, work through those chapters very diligently.