Symbol Set

Symbolic representation is cross-disciplinary functionality which allows design items to be represented symbolically in a 2D View in Draw when the Update Design process is executed. This depends on creating appropriate symbol and/or text templates in the Draw database and setting up appropriate data structures and references in Catalog databases before this functionality is used.

If the Draw administrator does not have the appropriate permissions in the Catalog, then effective co-operation between the Draw and Catalog administrators will be critical for the symbolic representation functionality.

To support this functionality, additional elements (DRSSET and DRSYLK) have been added to the Catalog database.

Each catalog item references a parameterized template and provides a set of values for these parameters. To use symbolic representation with a fixed size symbol for occurrences of these catalog items in Draw View, a single design symbol set (DRRSET) is created and referenced by the GPART for each of these items. However, if a scaled design symbol is used, a DRSSET would be created for each of these items in the Catalog.