How to carry on adding parts to Drawing after closing it and reopening it?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

If I start a new Drawing from a design and start putting parts on separate pages I'm happy. But if Fusion crashes or I save and close the Drawing then reopen it I can't keep adding parts to it or can I?

Lets say I save my work, go home, come to work the next day wanting to reopen my design and Drawing files to carry on adding parts to the Drawing from design it seems I can't.

To ask another way. If I'm in Model view with my 3D design that has 200 parts and select Drawing -> From Design -> (It opens the Create Drawing tab) -> in the tab there is a drop down menu under -> Destination -> Drawing -> + Create New. But here is never an option to carry on adding parts to a drawing that already exits i.e. that I've started before and have closed. I can't reopen or carry on from where I left off. Am I missing something? Is there a feature I'm not aware of or is there no point to this Destination -> Drawing drop down tab?

Hope someone can help,

[cmiller66]

Hi Will,

Yes, this is possible.  Open your design, then also re-open the drawing you were working on the day before.  Now you can use the Create drawing option either for the whole assembly or components, and in the dialog you'll be able to select that drawing:

Once you select that, you'll have the option of what sheet to place the view to, either one of the existing ones or a new sheet.

Hope that does it for you, if not please let me know.

Thanks,
Chris

[Anonymous]

Hi thanks for your reply!

I tried what you suggested and it still did not work. That is by just opening both files one did not find the other. After a bit of looking around I found a "Related Data" option in the File tab at the top and the design related to the drawing was in that tab and could be opened from there, then I could carry on from where I left off. From the other side if I open the design first I can open the related Drawing from the same Related Data option.

However if your proposed solution worked I could do what I want to do (and did not fully express in my first massage as I did not know about that Related Data option then) that is have a few separate designs open and put parts from each into one Drawing. I'm making construction guides and have many different separate designs that I'm wanting to put into one 2D Drawing file and then export as a single pdf. Each design only has the first related 2D Drawing available in the Create Drawing -> Destination drop down tab that you show in your screen shot. Is this the case or is there a way to do what I'm trying to do now?

Thanks!

Will

[cmiller66 · Accepted solution]

Hi Will,

Thanks for the clarification.  Currently you can create multiple drawings from a single design, but you can't link multiple designs to the same drawing.  So yes, unless the drawing is listed in Related Data in the design, you won't be able to place views in it, even if it's open.  We've had this request before, I will re-forward to the team.

Thanks,

Chris

[WoodcraftMark]

Any chance that request can be forwarded again?  I have multiple products that will be made for the customer.  The only way I've been able to combine it all is to use PDFA in AutoCAD, then use sheet sets so I can adjust the date and version number across all sheets simultaneously as well as create a table of contents.  Its tedious to say the least.