Create multidrawings

You can create multidrawings of selected parts and of selected drawings. You can also create empty multidrawings and copy or link views in them from other drawings.

If you create multidrawings from existing drawings, you can choose to include their individual drawing layouts. If you want to have separate lists, tables, and call-offs for each part or assembly, you should include the individual drawing layouts. You can also include lists and tables for all parts or assemblies in the multidrawing.

Before creating a multidrawing, check the original assembly or single-part drawing, and clean it up, if necessary. Do not modify the multidrawing object that links to the original drawing.

Before you start, you can set XS_MULTIDRAWING_REMOVE_VIEW_LABEL_GAP to TRUE in the Drawing properties category of the Advanced options dialog box to remove extra space between drawing view labels and drawing views.

Link or copy drawing views to empty multidrawings

You can create empty multidrawings in which you can link or copy views from other drawings as such or with the original drawing layout.

On the Drawings & reports tab, click Multidrawing > Empty drawing.
On the Drawings & reports tab, clickDocument manager .
Open the empty multidrawing from Document manager.
Still on the Document manager, select the drawings that you want to copy or link to the multidrawing.
On the Views tab, click From other drawing and select one of the copying or linking commands:
- Copy
- Copy with layout
- Link
- Link with layout
The drawing views are placed in the multidrawing from top to bottom starting from the top-left corner. The views are placed in the same order as they appear in Document manager. If you have sorted the list by the name, the drawings are created in the same order.
Arrange the views if they are on top of each other.

Note:

When you update multidrawings, the linked drawings are also updated.

Useful links

What does XS_CREATE_CONNECTION_WHEN_COPYING DRAWING_VIEWS do?

Create multidrawings of selected parts

Create single-part and assembly drawings of the parts that you select and place the drawings in a multidrawing. You can also keep the layout of the selected single-part or assembly drawings.

Select the parts from the model using appropriate selection switches or filters.
On the Drawings & reports tab, click Multidrawing and select one of the following commands depending on the desired result:
- New single-part drawings of selected parts: Create single-part drawings of the selected parts and place the drawings in a multidrawing
- New single-part drawings of selected parts with layout: Create single-part drawings of the selected part, keeping the layout of each drawing, and place the drawings in a multidrawing.
- New assembly drawings of selected parts: Create assembly drawings of the selected parts and place the drawings in a multidrawing.
- New assembly drawings of selected parts with layout: Create assembly drawings of the selected parts, keeping the layout of each drawing, and place the drawings in a multidrawing.

Create multidrawings of selected drawings

You can create multidrawings of the drawings you select. You can also keep the layout of the selected drawing in the new multidrawing.

On the Drawings & reports tab, click Document manager.
Select the drawings you want to add in the multidrawing from Document manager.
On the Drawings & reports tab, click Multidrawing and select one of the following commands:
- Selected drawings: Create multidrawings of the selected drawings without the drawing layout.
- Selected drawings with layout: Create multidrawings of the selected drawings, keeping the layout of each selected drawing.
The drawing views are placed in the multidrawing from top to bottom starting from the top-left corner. The views are placed in the same order as they appear in Document manager. If you have sorted the list by the name, the drawings are created in the same order.