Opening or Inserting Particular Iteration of a Design

This task shows you how to open or insert an iteration of a design from 3DEXPERIENCE platform in AutoCAD. This feature is used to retrieve an earlier design or a later iteration of a design if it exists, to restart development.

Open iteration option is available for a revision only if multiple iterations exist within that revision of the design in 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

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About Opening Designs From 3DEXPERIENCE
  1. Click 3DEXPERIENCE > Open or Insert from AutoCAD tool bar.
    The 3DEXPERIENCE Open or 3DEXPERIENCE Insert dialog box opens.
  2. Search for the design using Search option in 3DEXPERIENCE Open or 3DEXPERIENCE Insert dialog box. See Searching Designs.
    The search results are listed in 3DEXPERIENCE Open or 3DEXPERIENCE Insert dialog box.
  3. Right-click a design and click Open Iteration
    Note: This option is not displayed if multiple iterations do not exist in the selected revision of the design.

    The Select Iteration dialog box opens.

    The iteration and the description entered while saving the iteration to 3DEXPERIENCE platform is displayed.

  4. Select the iteration and click Open or Insert depending on your choice.

The selected iteration of the design is opened in AutoCAD or inserted in the active design.

Opening an iteration of a parent object is preferred over any design configuration selections done in the Open or Insert Options dialog box.

For non-latest iterations in a revision, the "As Built" design configuration of the selected iteration is opened from 3DEXPERIENCE platform by default. For latest iteration, the the "As Built" design configuration of the revision is opened from 3DEXPERIENCE platform by default.

For a multi-level structure, you may have created new iterations only for the sub-structures below the root design.

Thus, the root may have only one iteration while its children may have multiple iterations.

In such a case, to work on a specific iteration of the child design, you need to explicitly search the child in order to open its specific iteration from 3DEXPERIENCE Platform server.