Area Based Automatic Drawing Production

Provides you with guidance on how to organize Area Based Automatic Drawing Production (ABA) to enable the user to easily produce drawings from the 3D model.

It is assumed that you are an experienced user of the Draw module, this is reflected in the terminology used in this section. All terms are fully described in Draw and Draw Reference.

ABA allows a user to produce drawings by selecting predefined physical box volumes (known as areas) and matching them to a template that describes the format of the drawing to be produced.

Administrators are responsible for setting up the libraries for these templates. Setup involves the definition of labelling rules, the classification of discipline based drawing contents, and the construction of drawing tasks. The latter is defined as any activity applied to a drawing, such as the creation of a North arrow, or the plotting of a drawing.

You can create new libraries, or modify the content of existing libraries, so that the standard data available to individual users complies with a company's requirements for drafting functions. Examples include the definition of areas, the configuration of the drawing number, the building of key plans, and the maintenance of drawing symbols.