Overview

Layout Mode Overview

Working in Layout mode is similar to adapting your three-dimensional ideas to paper, making them two-dimensional.

Drawing Layouts

Layout mode allows you to create one or more layouts of your parts for drafting presentations and for purposes of blueprinting.

Associativity in Layout Mode

Associativity is the established relationship, or link, between the original part in Model mode and a drawing instance in Layout mode; and also, between a drawing instance and its dimensions.

Detailing in Layout Mode

You can detail both instance and layout-specific entities.

Layout-Specific / Instance-Specific Entities

Layouts can contain both instance-specific and layout-specific entities.

Levels Window

Levels should be used to organize and isolate the varying contents of a layout and to make the process of layout creation and/or modification easier.

Using Levels in Layout Mode

Each Layout has its own levels, separate from model and other layouts.

Dimension-to-Instance Association

Dimension-to-instance association refers to the link between a drawing instance and its related dimension(s).

Disassociation

Disassociation occurs when the program can no longer recognize the link that had been established between a part in Model mode and an instance in Layout mode, or between an instance and its dimension(s).

Layout Settings

Layout Settings

Model-to-Instance Association

Model-to-instance association refers to the link that is established between a part in Model mode and a drawing instance in a layout.

Drawing Instances

A drawing instance is an entity that represents a Model mode view of the part file.

Deleting Drawing Instances

Drawing instances, once placed in a layout, can be removed using the entity delete features available from the Edit Menu.

Drawing Instance Attributes Tree

There are individual attributes for the various line types used to display instances.

Drawing Instance General Options

The majority of new instance settings are controlled through the Create a New Drawing Instance dialog.

Drawing Instances Window

An instance(s) within a layout will contain whatever levels exist for the model, or part, that it is displaying.

Modifying an Instance

To modify a drawing instance, use the Generic Edit feature in KeyCreator. 

Modifying Drawing Instances

Once placed, entities within an instance as well as the instance itself can be modified using the various instance modification tools available through the Layout Menu.

Modifying Entities in Layout Mode

Be aware of the following rules with regard to modifying entities in a layout.

Rendering in Layout Mode

You are able to display drawings within a given layout using all of the rendering options normally available to you in Model mode.