Solid Edge Replace backgrounds in Solid Edge Background sheets does not work sometimes

2021-10-06T23:55:56Z
DRAFT

Summary


Details

When trying to replace a Background sheet with another Background sheet from another Draft Template file, sometimes this will not work.  What is the reason for this ?




Solution

Replace Background copies geometry from one file to another.  If the geometry being copied is Block geometry, as Blocks are unique by name,  you cannot have two different blocks of the same name in a single file.  So if both files have the title block name, then the target document will not be replaced. An occurrence of the existing block is placed. 

If you are going to use blocks on backgrounds in templates and later make changes to those blocks, then the block should be versioned.  For example a block named 'Title' should be renamed to 'Title2'.  Then when the block is copied into the file being updated, a new block 'Title2' will be created in the file and an occurrence of the new block will be placed replacing the old block 'Title'.









Hardware/Software Configuration

Platform: INTL64
OS: windows
OS Version: n/a
Product: SOLID_EDGE
Application: DRAFT
Function: SHEETS

Ref: 002-8014756

KB Article ID# PL8014756

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DRAFT: DRAWING_VIEWS