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This task shows you how to edit a 2D component instance.
This includes:
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Open the Disk4.CATPart
document. Select Start > Mechanical Design > 2D Layout for 3D Design
to open the layout in the 2D window. Instantiate a 2D component (in the
Front view, for example) as described in
Instantiating a 2D Component. |
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Right-click the 2D component instance and select Add
Leader.
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Select the element to which you want the 2D component
instance to be associated, or click in empty space if you do not want the
2D component to be associated with an element.
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In your layout, double-click the 2D component reference from the
specification tree (2D component.1). This activates the
detail sheet and the view which contains the 2D component reference.
Add a text to the 2D component reference. |
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Right-click the 2D component reference text.
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From the contextual menu, select Modifiable in
instance. This makes the text modifiable in existing instances as
well as in newly-created instances.
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Create a 2D component instance
(in the Front view, for example). There should now be two instances in
your Front view.
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If you now double-click the text in the first 2D
component instance, you are able to modify it. You can then repeat this
operation for the text in the 2D component instance you have just created.
More about texts in 2D components
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- Attribute links may be added in the text content.
- Once a text becomes modifiable, it is not possible to make it
non-modifiable.
- For 2D component instances created with a catalog, if a text
becomes modifiable in the catalog, you have to synchronize the
external reference to make the 2D component instance text modifiable
too (refer to Creating and Editing a Catalog in the Component
Catalog Editor User's Guide).
- If you create a 2D component reference (called MYREF for example)
containing a 2D component instance with a modifiable text, the text
will not be modifiable in instances of MYREF.
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- If you want to use as symbols 2D components with text, activate
both the Apply Scale property for the text (in Edit
> Properties > Text tab) and the Create with a constant
size setting (in Tools > Options > Mechanical Design >
Drafting > Annotation and Dress-up tab): the size of both the
2D component and its text will then be independent from the view
scale.
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- Remember that if the Allow direct manipulation check
box is cleared in Tools > Options > Mechanical Design >
Drafting > Annotation and Dress-up tab, you cannot manipulate
the component. In particular, you cannot modify the text strings in
2D component instances.
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Activate Sheet.1.
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Right-click the existing 2D component instance in the
Front view, and select 2D component.X (instance) object > Replace
Reference.
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From the specification tree, select the 2D component
reference you just created (2D component.2).
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You could also select another instance in order to take its
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The reference of the 2D component instance is replaced,
and the instance is modified accordingly.
More about replacing references
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- You cannot use a catalog to replace a 2D component instance
reference. To bypass this, use an instance created with this catalog.
- When replacing the reference of a 2D component instance, any
existing text in the original 2D component instance is also replaced,
even if this existing text had been previously modified (see
Modifying text
in 2D Component Instances for more information on this point).
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