About Exporting a Drawing View to a Layout

This sub-topic provides more information about the export of drawing views to a layout.

• You cannot export generative views (generated from the 3D via the Drafting app) to a layout sheet unless you isolate them first. In other words, you can only export interactive views or isolated generated views.
• Whatever their original type, all exported views are created as auxiliary views in the drawing, even though they keep the same name. For example, a left view in a layout sheet will still be called left view in the drawing but will be an auxiliary type view.
• You can only export to a layout sheet the drawing view types listed below:
  • Front, Left, Right, Top, Bottom, Rear and Auxiliary View
  • Isometric View (no geometrical element will be visualized in the 3D window)
  • Isolated Section View and isolated Section Cut.

  You cannot export any other view type than those listed above, and you cannot export views in detail sheets.

• The position in 3D space of layout views thus generated is implicitly defined by the drawing view.
• You cannot export a drawing view to a layout detail sheet.

This sub-topic provides more information about the export of various drawing elements to a layout.

• You cannot export to a layout sheet any picture contained in the drawing. Drawing views containing pictures will be exported without these pictures.
• The generated layout elements (dimensions, annotations and dress-up) are represented according to the standard used by this layout, independently of the standard used by the drawing. In other words, some elements may be visualized differently in the layout and in the drawing if they use two different standards.
• Dimensions and annotations remain associative to geometry (positional and orientation links) at export.

This sub-topic provides more information about the export of graphic properties to a layout.

• The graphic properties applied to dimensions, annotations and dress-up are preserved at export (with the exception of the color which can be set to white if the original drawing element is black and you select the Convert black to white option when exporting). The colors of an inserted picture are preserved.
• The graphic properties applied to geometry (color, pickable, Low/High Int, line type, line thickness) are preserved at export (with the exception of the color which can be set to white if the original drawing geometry is black and you select the Convert black to white option when exporting).

This sub-topic provides more information about the export of 2D components when exporting a drawing view to a layout.