Overlay drawing views use positional representations to show an assembly in multiple positions in a single view. Overlay views are available for unbroken base, projected, and auxiliary views. Each overlay view can reference a design view representation independent of the parent view.
In the drawing browser, overlay views are shown as child nodes to the parent view, displayed as "PosRepName: ViewNumber: ModelName." Right-click an overlay view node to open the model file using the positional representation set by the overlay view.
Add dimensions between overlay views to show the distance a component has moved from its position in another representation. Drawing dimensions automatically update if the model position changes.
Guidelines for working with overlay views
- In the assembly, create design view representations that show only components of interest. For an uncluttered overlay view, specify a design view representation when placing the overlay view.
- An overlay view can be associative to a defined design view representation.
- A positional representation can be used in multiple overlay views. In the assembly file, create as many positional representations as necessary to show different positions.
- To change to a different positional representation for an overlay view, delete the overlay view and specify a new positional representation when placing a new overlay view.
- If you delete a positional representation in the model, the drawing view reverts to the master positional representation.
- If you convert an assembly to a weldment, its positional representations and overlay views are deleted.
- Overlay views cannot be moved from their parent views or copied. The parent view can be moved or copied but overlay views are not included.