>>Or, when you make a change to a drawing does the software
rebuild the entire drawing file from scratch?
Typically only those entities impacted are updated. The entity geometry is updated for the modification. If the changed entity has dependents, those dependents are updated as well.
>>I saw another post yesterday about the difference of layers and sublayers.
Just a useful way to organize entities in your drawing. ViaCAD supports a flat file structure where parts, assemblies, drawings are all in one file. Many use layers to keep track of where things are.
>>The file has geometry that has links unresolved. Are you sure youwant to continue?.
Smart links provide a parent /child connection between entities. Modifying a parent entity will update dependent children entities. For example:
1. Create a block
2. Shell the block
3. Add a fillet to one of the edges
4. Change the original block length, width or height. ( the block is a parent to the shell and fillet child operations)
5. Through smart links, the shell and fillet operations will regenerate to the new block size.
If a modification occurred to a parent and a child needs to be regenerated, you will see the alert dialog box to resolve.
Other parent/child relationships include:
--Surface from curve entities
--Solids from curve entities
--Intersections
--Model to Sheet draw views
--Section cuts
Tim
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