About Layout Representation Management

This sub-topic provides general remarks about the layout representations.

• The sheet appears in the tree both in the 2D and 3D windows. Pressing the F3 key lets you show or hide the tree as desired.
• When the sheet frame is displayed in the 2D window, the grid is displayed within the sheet frame. When the sheet frame is not displayed in the 2D window, the grid is displayed in the entire window.
• Local transformations are planar; the sheet cannot be rotated in 3D.
• By default, the background is blue and not graduated in the 2D window. On the contrary, the 3D window is blue and graduated.
• See Navigating Between Tabs to learn how to switch back and forth between the 2D and 3D windows.

This sub-topic describes how standards are managed in a layout.

Only a single standard can be assigned to a 3D representation, which guarantees standard homogeneity within the 3D representation. If a 3D representation contains a mix of layout elements and 3D annotations (3D Tolerancing & Annotation elements):

• The standard selected when creating a layout becomes the standard used for 3D annotations. If 3D annotations previously used a different standard:

  • The visualization of some annotations may change.
  • You cannot use an older standard for the layout.
• Similarly, when creating a 3D annotation for the first time in a 3D representation that already contains a layout, the standard used for 3D annotations becomes the standard used for the layout. If the layout previously used a different standard, the visualization of some layout elements may change.
• Changing the standard of a layout also changes the standard used for 3D annotations, and vice-versa.

To prevent confusion, administrators can provide a single standard to their users.

As a reminder, the standard used for a 3D shape is defined by the Default standard at creation option available in Me > Preferences. For more information, see Tolerancing.

Important: At any time after defining a sheet, you can change the standard, sheet style or orientation. See Modifying a Sheet for more information.

You can use the rendering mode to control how the 3D background of the layout view is displayed.

The rendering mode used to display the 3D background of layout views is saved in the 3D representation containing the layout. When opening a layout, the saved value of the rendering mode is restored in session, and the layout views 3D background is visualized accordingly.

The rendering mode value can be refreshed using the Undo and Redo commands.

Opening a 2D Layout created with a version prior to V5 R18, by default, the Shading with edges rendering mode is displayed. You can modify the rendering mode; this modification will be saved.

The rendering mode of the 2D layout can be changed through the View section of the action bar.

This sub-topic describes how you can delete a layout.

A layout can be deleted in the following situations:

• A 2D Layout for 3D Design authoring license is granted.
• The layout is not being edited.

When the layout is deleted, all its content is deleted. However, the output features that have been created to design the layout are kept in PartBody, bodies or geometrical sets including 3D profiles, 3D Plane, 3D axes.