About Copy View with Link Object

This topic describes the working of the copy view with link functionality.

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Creating a Copy View with Link Object

General

You can insert the content of any view into another view. The result of the copy operation is a new type of object called CopyViewWithLink, which contains:

  • Information on the source view.
  • Information on how to display the source view data in the target view.
  • A set of 2D resulting elements, which correspond to the various objects of the source view content.

Source view - The drafting view to be copied. The view to which the CopyViewWithLink object is linked.

Target view - The drafting view in which you want to create the CopyViewWithLink object

The source view and target view can be any drafting view of any drawing, except a background view, or a main view, or a 2D component reference view (that is, a view in a detail sheet).

The source and the target view can be located in the same or in two separate drawings. You can create multiple CopyViewWithLink objects in a target view, from either the same or different source views.

Different Functionalities

Synchronization
You can sync the CopyViewWithLink object at any time. This status only reflects the synchronization of the CopyViewWithLink object with the source view. The sync status does not take into account the source view up to date regarding its 3D data.
You can synchronize the CopyViewWithLink object in the following ways:
  • In the tree, right-click the CopyViewWithLink object and select Synchronize.
  • From the Tools section of the action bar, click Drawing Batch.
The CopyViewWithLink object can be synchronized along with the target view update, if the Synchronize Copy View With Link objects during update check box is selected in Me > Preferences > App Preferences > 3D Modeling > Mechanical Systems > Drafting > View
, under Copy view with link synchronization.
Isolate
To isolate the CopyViewWithLink object, right-click the object and select Isolate.
After isolating, the link between the source data and target data is removed. The following capabilities are not available:
  • Identification of source data
  • Synchronization status or synchronizing ability with source data
  • Modification of filtering and clipping information.
Explode
To explode the CopyViewWithLink object, right-click the object in the tree, and select Explode.
The CopyViewWithLink object is deleted and all the resulting objects in it are kept as elements that belong to the target view. These elements can be managed individually.
Position and Orientation
The CopyViewWithLink position, rotation, and scale cannot be modified.
Copy and Paste
A CopyViewWithLink object can be copied from one target view to any other target view, except in its source view.
Export and Import as .3dxml Data
If the target drawing is exported and then imported without its source drawing, the CopyViewWithLink objects are isolated.
CopyViewWithLink Object Edition
The specifications of the CopyViewWithLink object can be modified after the creation.
To visualize the modifications in the specifications of the CopyViewWithLink object (that is, source view, filtering, or clipping), you have to synchronize the CopyViewWithLink object.

Capabilities of CopyViewWithLink Resulting Objects

  • The resulting 2D objects in the target view cannot be modified individually. To do this, you have to explode the CopyViewWithLink object.
  • You cannot add 2D elements or dimensions in the target views that are associative to the resulting elements, as the resulting elements are deleted during the next synchronization of the CopyViewWithLink object.
  • If the resulting elements are deleted, the elements are recreated during the next synchronization.
  • The resulting elements can be different between the source and target views if they are in separate drawings with different standards (ISO, ANSI, JIS).
  • If the source view contains the CopyViewWithLink objects, the CopyViewWithLink objects are ignored and are not visible in the target view.

Source Object Filtering
The CopyViewWithLink object lets you filter the content of the source view, based on the object layers. Only the objects belonging to the set of layers are locally copied in the target view.
Graphic Properties Override
The graphic properties of the layers can be overridden. The graphic properties are applied to all the layers’ elements. You cannot override each element individually.

If the pointed view contains a CopyViewWithLink group and this group contains overridden graphic properties, the destination copy group with link gets the overridden properties as default properties of the copied elements.

Source Object Clipping

The CopyViewWithLink object has a rectangular clipping frame. It is taken into account during the synchronization, to filter the source view elements that do not belong to the clipping area.

Depending on the type of object, the clipping either results in excluding or including the elements, or applying a geometric clipping on the objects:

  • 2D sketcher or generated geometries are clipped.
  • Area-fill and generated shapes are clipped.
  • Annotations, dimension elements, dress-up elements (that is, centerlines) are included if they intersect the clipping frame (leader/extension/lines…), otherwise they are excluded.
  • Inserted pictures, OLE Links, 2D components are included if they intersect the clipping frame, excluded otherwise.

If the Activate Clipping Frame check box is selected in the source view properties, it is not considered for the CopyViewWithLink synchronization. Only the clipping, while creating the CopyViewWithLink object, is considered.