Baselining Designs

This task shows you how to create a baseline for designs that exist in ENOVIA.

Before you begin:
  • The design must exist in ENOVIA.
  • The design must be the active design in AutoCAD.
See Also
About Baselines
Opening Baselined Designs
  1. Click 3DEXPERIENCE > Baseline from AutoCAD toolbar.
    The 3DEXPERIENCE Baseline dialog box opens. Enter the following parameters for the baseline:
    • Name. Enter a name for the baseline. By default, the name field specifies the design name with date stamp in <design name>-<UserName>-<mmddyy> format.
    • Description. Enter a description for the baseline.
  2. Click OK.

    A warning message is displayed if a baseline exists in ENOVIA with the same name. Click Yes to overwrite the existing baseline or click No to enter new parameters for the baseline.

    Important: Baselines are applied only to the active design node in Inventor and the structure beneath the node does not inherit the baseline.

A success message is displayed once the baseline is created. A baseline is created for the design active in AutoCAD with the specified parameters.

Known Limitation

Baseline creation from the CAD tool fails when you try to create a baseline for a structure where the participating designs are being referred from different directories.

For example,

The user has a parent -> child structure wherein the parent and child are located in different directories and the user tries to baseline this structure from the CAD tool using 3DEXPERIENCE > Baseline menu.

An error message "Could not baseline as designs are opened from multiple directories. Please open all designs from ENOVIA to a single directory before baseline" is displayed.