About 2D Component Modification Options

The Tools Palette appears when you instantiate a 2D component.

It lets you modify the origin, position and orientation of the 2D component instance. It displays the following commands:

Link with detail: instantiate a 2D component. The component instance is linked with its reference in a detail sheet.

By default, this icon is activated.

Explode: instantiate and explode a 2D component. The component instance is not linked to its reference, so behaves as an independent geometry and annotation.

Fixed together: instantiate and explode a 2D component, and apply a fixed together constraint to the geometry elements. The fix together constraint is not applied to annotations, dimensions or dress-up elements.

Change component origin: define another origin in the view.

Change component position: define another position in the view.

Change component angle: define the angle in the view.

Flip component horizontally: rotate the 2D component instance horizontally.

Flip component vertically: rotate the 2D component instance vertically.

Angle: define a value for the angle.

Scale: define a value for the scale.