To Configure a Drawing Representation
You can configure a drawing representation to control view display and drawing display in the following ways:
• Display or erase all views
• Display or erase a particular view
• Display or erase views of a particular type, for example, all cross-sectional views
• Display or erase all views associated with a particular model
• Display or erase views on a specified sheet
• Load the drawing to a specified sheet
• Load the drawing to a pan/zoom state
• Load the drawing to the center of a specified view
• Set tables to frozen or updating
A drawing representation is never active—it is always executed. The drawing is always in a stage of configuration and can be changed at any time. Creating a drawing representation means that you are specifying one or more commands to configure the current drawing. As you specify commands, you can apply each command to the drawing immediately, or you can define several commands and then run them at once. A delay option is provided to allow you to configure the drawing without retrieving data until the configuration is complete.
The order in which you define commands is important. The system compiles a list of commands and runs them in the order in which you define them. The commands interact with each other cumulatively. For example, you can turn all views off (command #1) and then turn on all general views (command #2).
Drawing representations behave differently than simplified representations in Part and Assembly modes in that if one representation is executed after another representation, the drawing will display the results of both representations. For example, you could erase all views on sheet #1; then erase views on sheet #2; and then display all views. Each command is applied and the last command, when implemented, counteracts the earlier commands.