Updating Specific Views Using the Batch Monitor

You can update specific views in a drawing by entering a logical expression for the view names.

See Also
Updating Drawings Including the Bills of Materials Using the Batch Monitor
  1. From the Tools section of the action bar, go to the secondary area, and click Utility .
  2. In the Batch Monitor panel, double-click Drawing Batch.
  3. In the Drawing Batch dialog box, under Selected Operation, select an action from the Select action for drawing representations list:
    • Update
    • Force update
    • Isolate
    • Update status
  4. From the Select a subset of views list, select View whose name matches regular expression.
  5. In the Regular Expression box, input an expression to match only the specific views.

    A warning appears if you enter a wrong regular expression.

    The regular expression associated to the drawing is shown in the Impacted views column.
  6. Click Save to save the batch settings or click Run to run the batch.

An example of drawings and their view names:

Drawing 1 Drawing 2 Drawing 3
xxxi prefix1_xxx xxx_suffix18
xxxa prefix12_xxx xxx_suffix19
xxxo prefix123_xxx xxx_suffix20
xxxu prefix1234_xxx xxx_suffix21

For Drawing 1, if you want to keep only the views named xxxa and xxxo, you can use the following regular expression: xxx[ao].

For Drawing 2, if you want to keep only the views with a prefix composed by “prefix" followed by at least three numbers, you can use the following regular expression: prefix/d{3,}.*.

For Drawing 3, if you want to keep only the views with a suffix composed by "suffix" followed by a number between 20 and 29, you can use the following regular expression: .*suffix2/d.

Warning: You need to be careful when you enter a regular expression. When you type a proper regular expression (with no forbidden characters in it), which matches with no views, there is no warning to alert that no views are going to be processed. You have to ensure yourself that the regular expression is relevant with its set of data.