New Document to the Archive
General
- You can create a new document (part, assembly, or drawing) as shown below.
- A new part or assembly model can be set up in an assembly model, in which case the part or sub-assembly becomes part of the (main) assembly and does not need to be added separately.
- A new drawing describing the model is created in the model.
Create a new part, assembly or drawing in the archives
- Select Archives | Documents | New
- select File > New or
- press Ctrl+N.
- The program opens the dialog box New Document.
- Define the type and data of the new document in the dialog box.
- New Document Dialog Box
- Select the type of the new document:
- Part or
- Assembly or
- Drawing.
- The program will color the selected document type blue.
- Name the document in the Label field.
- Fill in the archives data of the document by clicking Archive Data.
- The program opens the dialog box Archive Data.
- Fill in the data. You can edit them later.
- Select the Add to archive radio button to have the document saved in the archive.
- Select To Project when creating a document for a specific project.
- Activate the old project with the Select button or
- create a new by selecting New.
- See the other actions in the dialog box New Document Dialog Box
- Select OK.
- Start modeling, or start design of the drawing.
Note:
- If you inadvertently selected Part as the document type, although you intended to create an Assembly, you can convert the part to an assembly.
- When the document is in the working window, you can later complement the archives data.
- Select Archives | Documents | Data.