Locking a View

This task will show you how to lock views. This may be useful if you need to modify a part without modifying the generated views. For example, when you need to modify a constraint in the 3D but not the generated views.
Open the GenDrafting_front_view.CATDrawing document.

  1. Right-click the view to be modified (either the view frame or the view itself). A contextual menu is displayed.

  2. Select Properties. The Properties dialog box is displayed.

  3. In the Visualization and Behavior area, select the Lock View check box.

    The other fields are grayed out, indicating that you can no longer edit them.

  4. Click OK to lock the view and exit the dialog box.

    The view is locked, which is indicated by a lock in the specification tree.
Once a view is locked, you will not be able to:
  • create views from a locked view,
  • create either annotations or dimensions on this locked view,
  • update, delete or cut the locked view,
  • move generated geometry, annotations, dimensions and dress-up elements in this locked view. (However, you can still move a locked view, as well as you can move 2D geometry added in a locked view.)