Managing a Background View

This task will show you how to add to a sheet the background view (title block plus elements) from the sheet of another drawing.

Before You Begin, make sure you customized the following:

Grid:
De-activate the Grid icon from the Tools toolbar (bottom right).

Select the Tools->Options command to display the Options dialog box.

Click Mechanical Design->Drafting (Layout tab) and check the Copy background view and Other drawing options.

	If you un-check the `Copy background view`, only the sheet properties will be copied from one sheet to another.
	If you check the `First sheet` and the `Copy background view`options, the background view of the first sheet will become the reference.
	If you check the `Other drawing` and the `Copy background view` options, the background view of the sheet you will select later will become the reference.

Click OK in the Options dialog box.

Click the New Sheet icon from the Drawing toolbar.

The Insert Elements into a Sheet dialog box appears.

Click the Browse button

in the Insert Elements into a Sheet dialog box.

The File Selection dialog box appears.

Browse select the drawing which you will use the background view from.
In this particular case, click GenDrafting_part_frame_titleblock.CatDrawing document.

Activate the Show Preview option in order to preview the selected CATDrawing document.

Click OPEN in the File Selection dialog box.

The preview of the frame and title block of the selected CATDrawing is now displayed in the Insert Elements into a Sheet dialog box.

At any time you can decide that you do not want the preview to appear.
For this, un-check the Preview On or Off button

Click the Insert button.
The title block now appears on a new sheet named Sheet 2.

Each time you need to insert a new sheet with a given frame and title block, you will go to Tools->Options -> Mechanical Design ->Drafting (Layout tab). Check the Copy background view option and the Other drawing option.