You can use a hyperlink to link an object or element on a drawing sheet to a file or URL. You can add a hyperlink to any Draft object or element that supports user properties. Drawing views, 2D line geometry, blocks, drawing views, dimensions, and some annotations are examples of some of the items that support hyperlinks.
You can use hyperlinks to:
Link to a company Website to obtain material information or vendor specifications.
Link to a local file that contains detailed information about some aspect of the drawing, such as weld specifications, assembly procedures, finite element analysis calculations or design criteria.
Link to an image file, such as a logo, an installation illustration, or a photograph of a reference part.
Link to a database for Material Requirements Planning (MRP) or Engineering Change Notices (ECNs) to get information for the drawing title block.
Link to another Solid Edge document.
When you click an object hyperlinked to a file, the target file opens in the default viewer assigned to that file-type. When you click an object hyperlinked to a URL, the web page associated with the URL is opened in a default browser.
To get started, you must enable hyperlinks. Selecting the Insert→HyperLink command lets you:
Add, edit, and remove hyperlinks between objects on the drawing sheet and external files or URLs.
Select, open, and display the targets of previously created hyperlinks on the drawing.
In hyperlink mode, you see two different kinds of pointers when the mouse moves across objects and elements on the drawing sheet.
When this pointer is displayed, it means a link has not been assigned to the object or element. You can click to select it and add a hyperlink:
When this pointer is displayed, it means there is an existing hyperlink defined for the object or element:
In this case, you can click to follow the link, or you can right-click to edit, remove, or view the hyperlink target name associated with the object or element.
In hyperlink mode, you can add, edit, and remove hyperlinks from 2D objects and elements. Items that are not highlighted are not hyperlinked.
To add a link, click an object, or right-click the item and select the Add/Edit Link command from its shortcut menu. The Hyperlink dialog box is displayed for you to type a source URL or a target file path name. You also can use the Browse button to locate the file through your computer file system.
To edit a link, right-click the object and select the Add/Edit Link command from its shortcut menu.
To remove a link, right-click the object and select the Remove Link command.
When you select the HyperLink command, all objects with previously defined hyperlinks are highlighted at once on the drawing sheet. This identifies the items that have attached files, such as specification documents and installation instructions, or referenced web pages.
When you click an object hyperlinked to a file, the target file opens in the default viewer assigned to that file-type.
When you lclick an object hyperlinked to a URL, the web page associated with the URL is opened in a default browser.
To display the target name without opening it, right-click the hyperlinked object or element and look at the text displayed to the right of the Open command.