Attach an Archived Drawing to the Model

The purpose of use

You can use the function to correct the situation when you have created a drawing for a model and saved it, but you have forgotten to save the model after creating the drawing.

  • If you forgot to save the model after creating the drawing, no information about the drawing has been saved in the model's feature tree.

You can attach any drawing in the archive to the model in the working window, but it does not make sense.

  • You should only attach to the model a drawing made of the model that is visible in the drawing archive, but not in the model's feature tree.
  • However, if you attach a drawing of another model to the model, the geometry of the drawing of this other model will be replaced by the geometry of the parent model when the drawing is updated.

Attach a drawing to the model

  1. Click the Drawings in the feature tree.
  2. Use the preset button to open a list of the model drawing
    • You can see the drawings made earlier and saved in the feature tree of the model.
    • If the drawing you want does not appear in the list, continue.
  3. Move the cursor over Drawings.
  4. Select the context-sensitive function Attach Archived Drawings.
  5. Define the search criteria for the drawing, and click OK.
  6. Select the archived drawing from the search result.
    • Double-click the drawing or
    • Click the drawing and select the context-sensitive function Select.
  7. Save the model so that the attached drawing remains visible in the model's feature tree.
Note:
  • You can connect the latest version of the drawing saved in the Flow system to an archived assembly model. If the Flow drawing is connected to an assembly model, the same drawing cannot be connected to another model. Both model and drawing is engineered by Vertex G4 software.