A design view representation is created in the assembly environment and preserves an assembly display state.
When you create a drawing view of an assembly, you can select any of the design view representation that are defined in the assembly. You can also create an association between the design view representation and the drawing view.
If you make a drawing view associative to a design view representation, the drawing view updates automatically when changes are made to the design view representation in the assembly environment.
What are guidelines for creating associations?
Rules which govern creating an association between a design view representation and drawing view:
- Only public design view representations can be associative to a drawing view. Private design view representations can be used to create a drawing view, but it is static, and does not update with changes to the model.
- A design view representation associated to a referenced file that has been removed correspondingly removes the design view representation associativity. Correspondingly, removing a design view representation that has been associated to a referenced file removes the design view representation associativity.
How do design view representations improve performance?
To take advantage of performance benefits and memory savings:
- Select a design view representation that only displays the components that must be visible. All components rendered invisible in the design view representation are not loaded into memory.
- Close the assembly file used for a drawing view to prevent its graphics from being loaded into memory.
- To edit the model displayed in the drawing, in the Application Menu, click Open to select the assembly file, and then click Options. Select the representation used in the drawing.