Libraries

You are responsible for setting up the standard libraries that other users reference during drawing production. You can create new libraries, or modify the content of existing libraries, so that the standard data available to individual Draw users complies with the company requirements for their particular drafting functions. The following types of library are controlled in this way:

Sheet Libraries. Refer to Sheet Library for further information.

Symbol Libraries. Refer to Symbol Library for further information.

Isodraft Symbol Libraries. Refer to Isodraft Symbols for further information.

Label Libraries. Refer to Label Library for further information.

Style Libraries. Refer to Style Library for further information.

Hatching Libraries. Refer to Hatching for further information.

Autolabels Libraries. Refer to Autolabels for further information.

Representation Rules Libraries. Refer to Representation for further information.

Drawlist Libraries. Refer to Drawlist for further information.

Tagging Rule Libraries. Refer to Tag Rule for further information.

The Sample Project supplied with the application has two Departments, Master_Libraries and Project_Libraries. These departments have Libraries that contain sample sheets, symbols, and rulesets for tagging and representation, for example. The contents of the sample Libraries is summarised in Libraries.

When a DRAW user attempts to create a new element, for example, a symbolic label, the application searches for relevant Libraries in a specific sequence. It looks at each LIBY in the DEPT in the listed order until it finds one that contains the appropriate type of Library. It then adds this LIBY and all subsequent LIBYs to the scrollable list on the Select window until it finds a LIBY which does not contain a relevant LALB. No further searching is carried out.

You can hide LIBYs from the user by adding them to the end of the DEPT’s members list. (You can, alternatively, store all reference LIBYs in a separate DEPT, but this would add extra DEPTs to the user’s Members List.)

It is important to note that, due to this method of searching for the LIBYs, different types of Libraries must be grouped together under the same Department if they are all to be available to the user.