Drawing production is the process of formally documenting the design of a part or assembly. Solid Edge gives you a variety of tools that allow you to easily document designs during any stage of drawing production. You can create associative drawing views of 3D parts and assemblies that you can quickly update when the part or assembly changes. You can also create drawing views that consist of 2D elements drawn from scratch that you can quickly change without making changes to a part or assembly document.
A combination of the above methods also gives you the ability to meet the changing demands of your workflow. You can place an associative drawing view, which you can update when the model changes. Then, when you want to make changes to the drawing document without changing the model, you can convert the associative drawing view to a 2D element drawing view.
You can make a 2D drawing in Solid Edge using two types of drawing views: part views and 2D views. The 2D drawing can contain dimensions and other annotations that describe the size of a part or assembly, the materials used to create it, and other information.
When working from a 3D model, you can create the following types of drawing views:
Detail views (dependent and independent)
Exploded assembly drawings
When working with Solid Edge 2D Drafting, you cannot create 3D views that require a 3D model: section views, broken-out section views, and detail views.