Using Paste Special for Annotations

You can copy the annotations and paste them with another available format.

  1. Select the required annotation and from the standard area of the action bar, click Copy .
  2. Select the required feature to paste the annotation on it.
  3. From the standard area of the action bar, click Paste Special .

    Alternatively, you can right click in the 3D area and click Paste Special.

  4. In the Paste Special dialog box, select the required format.
    • As specified in the Part document: The object is copied with its design specifications.
    • As Result with Link: The object is copied without its design specifications and the link is maintained between the reference and the copy.
    • Cloning
    • LightFormat
  5. Select As Result With Link to copy the annotation with its link maintained with the reference.
  6. Click OK.
    The non-editable annotation is applied on the selected feature with the link to original annotation. In the tree, the annotation node appears with the mask on it.
    Notes:
    • The mask appears when the source feature and target feature are in the same document.
    • When the source FTA feature and target result feature are in same document and you modify the source feature, the result features is synchronized automatically.
    • When the source FTA feature and target result feature are in different documents and you modify the source feature, the synchronization status (synchronized or unsynchronized ) of the result features is also indicated using the masks.
    • The copy-paste as result with link is not supported for FTA proxy annotations (assembly presentation annotations or non-editable result annotations).
    • When the original source FTA features are modified, the corresponding changes are propagated to the result features.
    • When source FTA feature is deleted, the linked FTA result annotations are converted to authoring annotations.
    • When you import or export the FTA product, in the generated data, the result with link annotations lose the link with their source annotations and they are converted into authoring annotations.
    • The style and the position or orientation of a FTA result feature can be edited.
    • While pasting as a result with link, if the resulting datum references the geometry as the original datum, the checking rule of datum label unicity is ignored.
    • While pasting as a result with link, if the resulting datum target references the geometry as the original datum target, the checking rule of datum label unicity is ignored.

      The original and pasted datum target are considered as one datum target. Thus, separate count is not displayed with the datum. For example, A2 is displayed with the datum instead of A2,2. When you create the next datum target, the datum is displayed as A2, 3, ignoring the count datum target pasted as result with link.

  7. Optional: From the Tools section of the action bar, click Links & Relations .
  8. Optional: In the Edit Links and Relations dialog box, click Synchronize Link to synchronize the result annotations.
  9. Click OK.