To Add Models to the Drawing
Before you can place a view of a 3D model, you must associate the 3D model with the drawing. This is called adding the model to the drawing.
When you start creating a new drawing file you are prompted in the New File dialog box for a 3D model to reference. Once the drawing is in progress, use the following procedure to add other models to the drawing file:
1. Open a drawing to add a drawing model.
2. Perform one of the following operations:
◦ Click
Drawing Models in the
Model Views group of the
Layout tab.
◦ Right-click and click Drawing Models on the shortcut menu.
The DWG MODELS menu appears on the Menu Manager.
3. Click Add Model. The Open dialog box opens and lists all the files in your current working directory.
4. Select the model to add as a drawing model to the current drawing, and click Open.
| • If the new model that you are adding to the drawing contains part simplified representations, the Open Rep dialog box opens. Select the required representation and click OK. • If the model that you are adding to the drawing has different instances of a Family Table, you are first prompted to select an instance from the Select Instance dialog box, and then the simplified representation from the Open Rep dialog box. |
5. The model is added to the drawing and set as the current drawing model. If you have selected a representation in the Open Rep dialog box, the selected representation is set as the current representation of the drawing model.
|  Adding a model to the drawing does not place a view of the model on the sheet, but lets the drawing reference the model so that you can place a view. You can insert drawing views of the newly added part as you would for any other drawing model. |