I have been trying to learn how to use annotation views but I am not sure I understand how it is supposed to work. I am trying to create a section view of my assembly and save it in the assembly so that the section view is available to use in any drawing referencing that assembly. I thought using annotation views would accomplish that but so far I am not getting it to work. I can create the section view, click save as in the prop manager, select to save it as an annotation view and everything seems fine. Create a drawing, in the task pane I switch to the view pallette tab and from the drop down select the assembly and the list of available views populate, I select the section view that I have saved with the assembly and try to drag it onto my drawing view but that view will not "drop" on the drawing. I am able to add other views from the view palette (front, left, right, etc..) but not the annotation view that I created.
Can anyone explain to me how to save a section view in the model in such a way that I will be able to use that saved section view in a drawing? Ideally I would like to use annotation views but if you know of another way please let me know. But I should point out some limitations, due to limitations of a 3rd party software we use with sw I am unable to use configurations and because of the number of section views I want to save I would also be unable to use assembly cuts. I am also considering using display states as well but that only allows me to control visibility not actually section.
Thanks,
Sam