Importing an Annotation Set   

This task shows you how to import an annotation set from another CATPart document.

The following types of import are available:

• Import in a 3D part with or without an annotation set.

• Import in a 3D part which is resulting from symmetry with or without an annotation set.

• Open a target CATPart document where you want to import the annotation set.
• Open a reference CATPart document containing the annotation set to be reused.

1. Activate the part where you want to import the annotation set. 

2. Select Tools > Import Annotation Set
   The Import Annotation Set dialog box appears.
   The Symmetry plane field allows you to select the symmetry plane for 3D part resulting from symmetry. Right-click this field and select Clear Selection to cancel the selection.

3. Select the annotation set in the part containing the annotation set as reference.
   The name of the selected annotation set is displayed in the Import Annotation Set dialog box.

4. To import the annotations with their links maintained with the reference, Select the As Result With Link check box.
   The non-editable annotations are applied on the selected feature with the links to original annotations. In the tree, the annotation nodes appear with masks on them.

   The mask, , appears when the source feature and target feature are in the same document. When the source FTA feature and target result feature are in same document and you modify the source feature, the result features is synchronized automatically. When the source FTA feature and target result feature are in different documents and you modify the source feature, the synchronization status (synchronized or unsynchronized ) of the result features is also indicated using the masks. The copy-paste as result with link is not supported for FTA proxy annotations (assembly presentation annotations or non-editable result annotations). When the original source FTA features are modified, the corresponding changes are propagated to the result features. When source FTA feature is deleted, the linked FTA result annotations are converted to authoring annotations. When you import or export the FTA product, in the generated data, the result with link annotations lose the link with their source annotations and they are converted into authoring annotations. The style and the position or orientation of a FTA result feature can be edited. The result annotation geometry can be modified using geometry connection management.

5. Click OK.
   The annotation set is imported in the target part.

   All features in the reference annotation set are created even if they are not necessarily displayed.

   For more information, see Duplication Rules from Existing Annotation Set.