About Dress-Up Elements

This topic provides information about dress-up elements. You can create a number of view dress-up elements on existing 2D elements. However, in a Drafting context, the dress-up is associative to the elements created from a part or an assembly. When created, these elements are associated with a view.

See Also
Dressing Up Elements

Deleting dress-up elements:

  • If you delete generated center lines, threads or axis lines, you will be able to generate them again using the Restore Properties option from the context menu.
  • If you delete in 3D, the geometry on which dress-up elements are based, these dress-up elements will be permanently deleted when you update the drawing (an update operation cannot be undone). This has a consequence on existing annotations or dimensions (i.e. annotations or dimensions that were created on such a dress-up element prior to its deletion):
    • Annotations will no longer be linked to anything.
    • Dimensions will appear as being not-up-to-date. Note that you can re-route dimensions to geometry when relevant.

Moving dress-up elements:

About axis lines, center lines and threads: These dress-up cannot be moved (translate, rotate, mirror, symmetry and scale commands) alone, because they are associative with a reference geometry. However, if their reference is moved in the same operation, or if the associativity is suppressed, these dress-up elements can be moved. For example, when isolating a view, axis lines, center lines and threads are no more associative, you can then perform the operations listed above.