The Update and Full Update commands are available when you right-click a drawing view in the Drawings View Explorer.
Full Update performs a full update of all geometry in the view. It does not consider whether the model objects associated with the geometry has changed.
Update performs a smart update of the view or a set of selected views from the same sheet. If a set of criteria is met, then an incremental update is performed only for the geometry of added, modified, and deleted objects. If the criteria are not met, then a full update — the equivalent of Full Update — is performed.
All of the following criteria must be met for Update to trigger an incremental update:
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The view has had at least one full update previously performed.
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The only view properties that have changed are name and description.See View Tab (Drawing View Properties Dialog).
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The numbers of added, modified, or deleted objects are less than set quantities.
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The software allows incremental updates for the selected view type.
Any one of the following criteria cause Update to trigger a full update:
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The view is new and has never had a full update.
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The view is a section or detail view. See Place Detail Envelope Command and Place Cutting Plane/Section View Command.
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The view has been cropped. See Crop a Drawings by Rule 2D Drawing View and the 3D Model Volume.
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The view style, scale, orientation, or coordinate system have changed. See View Tab (Drawing View Properties Dialog).
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A primary plate object in the view has been split or has not been split.
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The numbers of added, modified, or deleted objects are greater than a set percentage of the total number of objects.
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The software does not allow incremental updates for the selected view type.
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An incremental update is usually faster than a full update, but still results in completely up-to-date geometry for the view.
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The View Log command displays a log of the results from the last update performed on the view with the Update or Full Update commands.