About Modifying a View's Links

General Information

This section provides general information about modifying the list of elements pointed by a view.

• To add or modify links, the reference 3D representation must be opened. If it is not opened, you can only be able to remove links.
• All views must have the same 3D associated document.
• You can select products or subproducts if it is an assembly view, and bodies if it is a part view.
• If you want to modify links in your view when the related 3D document is not opened, you can only remove links.
• You cannot perform Undo and Redo operations.

• Pointed document: Whenever you create a view by selecting subproducts or parts, the current root (reference) product is captured as the pointed document. When you right-click the view and select Open 3D Data, the pointed document of that view is opened.
• Pointed elements: Lists the subproducts or parts selected while creating the view.

Reroute Links

• You can reroute an existing link from an instance to another instance (new branch) of the same reference (root product).
• You can also reroute views linked to several product instances.
• In this reroute operation, the associativity of elements contained in the views is kept intact.

Broken Links

This section provides information about resolving broken links.

• As long as you do not remove broken links, you cannot modify the view at all.
• If all the links in a view are broken, after you remove them all, you are back in the Link Modification dialog box, with the whole assembly being selected.

Exploded Views

This section provides information about modifying the links of exploded views.

If you modify the links of an exploded view, all the views generated from the assembly is modified. For more information, see Creating an Exploded View From Design Review.

Scenes

This section provides information about modifying the links of scenes.

• If you modify the links on a scene, you can select the scene only.
• You cannot mix scene links and products or parts' links. To select products in an assembly, start by removing any existing scene's link in the Link Modification dialog box, then select products or parts' links only.