Creating Annotations in Assembly Context

You can create layout features in an assembly, such as annotations and dimensions.

Important: You can manage the selection of elements according to Assembly Context options.

Before you begin: Open an assembly.
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About Creating Annotations in Assembly Context
  1. Double-click the root product to activate it.
  2. From Product Edition section of the action bar, click Insert New Representation .

    The New Content dialog box appears.

  3. Under the Physical Product Structure category, select the representation type to be created.
  4. Click OK in the New Content dialog box.
    The representation is added.
  5. Double-click the created representation and activate the 2D Layout for 3D Design app.
    A layout is created.
  6. Create a projection view in the newly created layout.


  7. Create a dimension between two parts (respectively RepresentationA and RepresentationC in this example).
    The dimension is created and the Engineering Connection node appears in the tree under the first parent product containing the active 3D shape representation. (Here the root product itself).



    Important:
    • The green diamond as contextual symbol appears on the 3D shape representation icon in the tree , indicating that the 3D shape is involved in context minimal (that is, when the relation and the two components belong to the same parent component) in the assembly.

  8. Right-click the UserDefined engineering connection and select UserDefined.1 > Definition....

    You are back in the previous product context app.

  9. Right-click the same UserDefined engineering connection again and select UserDefined.1 > Definition....
  10. In the Engineering Connection Definition dialog box, select 3D Annotations .

    This section page displays the type and the name of all the 2D layout annotations and dimensions specification features of the edited engineering connection.

    • In the Name column, the annotation name is displayed.

      Double-click the annotation name to rename it.

    • In the Action column, the remove option is available for each row.

      The remove action is performed on all the selected rows.

  11. Click OK.