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About Mapping and Associating the Drawing Views and the Datum Planes of a Part
You can automatically or manually map and associate the logical views of a drawing with the datum planes of the part that you create or select. You can also break the association between the logical views of a drawing and the datum planes of a part and remap the views and the datum planes. However, the mapping of the views to the datum planes is one-to-one, and mapped views and datum planes are not available for further mapping.
Orthographic views of the drawing are mapped to the datum planes of the part. Sectional, auxiliary, and detailed views are secondary and can be defined only if an orthographic view exists.
If you select Automatic view mapping in the Preferences dialog box, views of the drawing are automatically mapped to the default datum planes of the part according to the following factors:
The initial drawing view and datum plane that is mapped according to their names.
Subsequent mappings based on this first mapping.
If the drawing views do not automatically map to the datum planes, the View Mapping dialog box opens. You must select an existing view name in the drawing view name list and a datum plane in the part name list to manually map the drawing view to the datum plane of the part. Subsequent mappings of datum planes to drawing views are based on this first mapping.