The following tasks are used frequently when you create composed drawings. Some of the tasks are performed within the Drawings and Reports task or other 3D modeling tasks, and others are performed while the drawing is open in the SmartSketch Drawing Editor.
Create Layout and View Styles, and Edit Templates for Composed Drawings
You use a combination of commands in the Drawings and Reports task to create styles used in your composed drawings and to design the drawing appearance.
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The views you create in a composed drawing require view styles. See Define View Style Command (Tools Menu) in the Drawings and Reports Reference Data.
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Create layout styles to define regions on a layout template used with composed drawings. See the Define Layout Style Command in the Drawings and Reports Reference Data.
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Edit border templates to include additional graphics in the border area of a composed drawing. See Edit Border Template Command (Tools Menu) in the Drawings and Reports Reference Data.
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Composed drawings combine a layout template with a border template to create drawings that have the same positioning of views but different content. See Edit Layout Template Command (Tools Menu) in the Drawings and Reports Reference Data.
Create a Composed Drawing Component
You can create a Composed Drawing component either in the Drawings and Reports task Management Console, or by using the Tools > Drawing Console command in one of the 3D modeling tasks. See Add a new package of components.
Create a Volume for a Composed Drawing
Composed drawings must be associated with a volume in the 3D model before they can be updated successfully. In the Space Management task, you can create volumes to use in your drawings. See the Space Management Help for information on creating volumes.
Create a Composed Drawing
In a 3D task, Create a New Composed Drawing using the Tools > Drawing Console command . Select and right-click the composed drawing component, and select New Drawing on the shortcut menu. The software creates the composed drawing based on the layout template and border template you specify. You can also open existing drawings in a 3D task by right-clicking a document in the Drawing Console and selecting Edit. See Edit a composed drawing.
Update a Composed Drawing Document
Update the composed drawing document. See Updating Documents.
Viewing the Drawing Log
You can view the drawing log to see any messages associated with the drawing. See View Log Command.
Set Drawing Properties
You can specify the properties for the drawing component or drawing documents by right-clicking and selecting Properties. See Edit document properties.
Comparing 2D Drawing Objects to 3D Model Objects
You can open a drawing document and compare the 2D drawing objects in the drawing document to 3D model objects.
Edit the Composed Drawing
In many cases, you need to include additional labels, dimensions, or place new views on the composed drawing after it is created. See Edit a composed drawing. This is an optional task and is not required to create composed drawings.
Publish the Composed Drawing
Publish the composed drawing documents. You can publish only if your model has been registered using the SmartPlant Registration Wizard. See Publishing Documents.
The viewable files created when you publish drawings and reports provide relationship
links to the 3D Model Data. You must also publish the 3D Model Data to provide the navigation between the viewable files and the 3D Model Data.
Convert a Version 6.1 Snapshot Drawing to a Composed Drawing
If a drawing document in the Detail View has a yellow icon (for example: 
), the drawing document is a version 6.1 legacy Snapshot drawing. You should use the
Tools > Convert Legacy Snapshots Command to convert this document to a Composed Drawing for use in the current version of
the software. If you do not convert the legacy snapshot drawing, you cannot perform
edit operations on the drawing, including update, revise, and publish.