Find in Drawing Toolbar

The Find in Drawing toolbar is available on the Tools Tab. It can be used for finding and highlighting of shapes in the diagram. These selections can be used for further operations.

The procedure to use the Selection Toolbar is as follows:

1. First select the type of element using the Type drop-down box.

2. Select an attribute using the Attribute dropdown box. If no attribute is selected, all items of the specified type will be selected in the drawing. It is also possible to key in the name of a pseudo attribute or a referenced attribute in this field. In order to do that square brackets must be used, for example, [ABORE] or [SPRE.CATR.PARA(1)].

   Note:
   Array indexing always starts from 1.

3. Select an operator using the Operator dropdown box. The available operators are the following:

   	Operator	Description
   	=	Equal-to sign
   	>	Greater-than sign
   	<	Less-than sign
   	<>	Not-equal-to sign
   	>=	Greater-than-or-equal-to sign
   	<=	Less-than-or-equal-to sign

   The operators are valid for the following types:

   	Type	=	>	<	<>	>=	<=
   	Integer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
   	Real	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
   	Text	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
   	Logical	Yes			Yes
   	Reference	Yes			Yes
   	Word	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
   	Position	Yes			Yes
   	Orientation	Yes			Yes
   	Direction	Yes			Yes

   Note:
   If the attribute is an array, then only the operators ‘=’ and ‘<>’ are available unless an array index is specified, for example, [Borearray(1)], then the Type should be one of the mentioned above.

4. Enter a criteria value. The value can be left blank in case you are searching for shapes where some fields have not been set, for instance where SPRE in not set.

5. Click the Select button to select items according to the criteria, or click the Highlight button to instead highlight items according to the criteria.

6. Click the Previous button to go to the previous item within the collection of selected or highlighted shapes. The Next button goes to the next item within the collection of selected or highlighted shapes.

In the Selection Options menu the user can choose one of the three modes:

• Clear current Selection / Highlight before applying new search - when active new search will disregard the previous selection / highlight next time user performs a search.

• Add to current Selection / Highlight - when active a new search will add to the existing selection or highlight.

• Select / Highlight within current selection - forces the search to consider only the items within the current selection. It is therefore possible in this mode to first make a selection using the Area or Lasso method prior to clicking any of the find buttons.

In the Search Options menu the user can choose if the search will be performed on Defined shapes, Undefined shapes or both.

When the Zoom To button is activated the application will zoom and/or pan so that the entire selection is visible.