Just draw what you want and copy it to the library. From then on, it's available right on the Draft Edge Bar. Solid Edge makes handling a bill of materials very simple. You can exclude individual items, list just ballooned parts, or list your subassemblies as one item or list them individually. You can highlight a part within a drawing view, hide all occurrences, and there is hidden line support for interfering bodies.
Performance is better when placing views.
And the bend lines in a flat pattern sheet metal part are now shown in a drawing. This exploded view of a valve assembly was designed with Solid Edge. Inter part associativity in V8 allows you to yank things off one model and put them onto another model while maintaining an associative link. When you change one model, the other updates as well. There is improved support for JIS standards.