Open and edit a drawing
The Upchain CAD plugins gives you many ways to quickly open a drawing associated with a BOM item. The drawing is downloaded to your home folder from which you can open the drawing in your CAD software to view or edit it.
indicates that an item has a drawing attached.Open a drawing from an open model
If you have a model open but not checked out you can download the drawing associated with that model, then open the drawing to view or edit in your CAD software.
With the CAD model open, refresh (
) the cBOM view.Right-click the currently-opened item and select Load drawing from the drop-down.
The drawing is downloaded to your home folder (if it wasn't downloaded already) and opens in a new window.
Refresh the cBOM view to view the drawing's cBOM.
The drawing is in a Read-Only state as indicated by the black text in the cBOM view. You can now right-click the drawing in the cBOM view and select Check out from the drop-down if you wish to now edit the drawing.
Check out a drawing with its model from the cBOM view
When you check out a model from the cBOM view, its drawing is also checked out at the same time.
With the CAD model open, refresh (
) the cBOM view.Right-click the model and select Check out.
The model is checked out and its drawing is downloaded and checked out as well.
Right-click the BOM item you have checked out and select Load drawing from the drop-down.
The drawing opens in a new window.
Refresh the cBOM view to view the drawing's cBOM.
The drawing is checked out to you, as indicated by the green lock and green text, and you can begin making changes to it.
Open a drawing from the project BOM
When you open a model from the Project BOM, you can also download the drawing associated with it, then open the drawing directly without having to first open the model.
From the My Workspace or My Projects section, click the project you wish to work in.
The project name and number appears at the top of the plugin to set the context for the rest of the plugin.
Click the BOM view icon (
) in the menu bar.Select Project BOM from the drop-down.
Locate the item you wish to work with. Right-click and select Download from the drop-down.
The Download files window opens.
By default, the drawing is not selected to download along with its model.
Click the box in the second column next to the BOM item to download that item's drawing.
Click Download.
When all files finish downloading, click Open drawing.
The drawing opens in a new window and the plugin switches to the cBOM view.
Click the refresh icon (
) to view the drawing's cBOM.
The drawing is in a Read-Only state as indicated by the black text in the cBOM view. You can now right-click the drawing in the cBOM view and select Check out from the drop-down if you wish to now edit the drawing.
Check out a drawing from the Project BOM
When you open a model from the Project BOM, you can also download the drawing associated with it, then open the drawing directly without having to first open the model.
From the My Workspace or My Projects section, click the project you wish to work in.
The project name and number appears at the top of the plugin to set the context for the rest of the plugin.
Click the BOM view icon (
) in the menu bar.Select Project BOM from the drop-down.
Locate the item you wish to work with. Right-click and select Check out from the drop-down.
The Check out files window opens.
By default, the drawing is not selected to check out along with its model.
Click the box in the second column next to the BOM item to check out that item's drawing.
Click Download.
When all files finish downloading, click Open drawing.
The drawing opens in a new window and the plugin switches to the cBOM view.
Click the refresh icon (
) to view the drawing's cBOM.
The drawing is checked out to you, as indicated by the green lock and green text, and you can begin making changes to it.
Open or edit a drawing from a search
You can perform a Quick search to locate the item that contains a drawing or an Advanced search to locate the drawing file directly.