PROPERTIES

Purpose:

To add, change and remove some predefined information in the current drawing such as the drawing name, date, author, scale, security class The information is saved as part of the drawing form, connected to specific text rules. for further information about creating a form with text rules, refer to the function Tools / Drawing Form / SAVE.

Prerequisites:

The current drawing must contain a drawing form, with the underlying form object available in the Standard Data bank.

Instructions:

In the File menu, click Properties.

The function uses a SBFS form dialog when interacting with the user. This form contains a number of fields corresponding to certain information connected to the drawing for example, drawing name, date, author, scale Each field in the SBFS form has a specific rule number connected to it. The information in such a field will be inserted in the drawing, according the corresponding rule number in the drawing form (if it exists). When this function is entered, it tries to read the information (if there is any) in the current drawing and when the SBFS form appears this info will be shown in the appropriate fields. If no information is found for a certain field, this fields will be empty.

For general information on rules and dynamic texts, see Drawing Forms and Rules.

The function can handle three slightly different SBFS forms as described below. The SBFS form to use is controlled by the Default Keyword UPDATE_DRAW_INFO_FORM.

Fields in the SBFS form #1

The different fields and their corresponding rule numbers:

The last eight rule numbers @600 - @607 deserves some explanation. As given by the @ sign, these are rule numbers of type table. There can be a total of twenty rows for each such rule. It is possible in the SBF form to scroll between these 20 rows but not individually; all eight fields will be scrolled together. In the drawing form, it is recommended to position these rule definition texts to each other and also to give them the same maximum number of rows when specifying these rules.

Also the last of these rules deserves an explanation. There are three "internal" lines for each of the 20 table rows connected to @607. The distance between the internal lines is predefined to 0,5*<height of text>. One must have this in mind when specifying the height and interline space for this rule number.

New form rules in Drafting for TDM Information

Fields in the SBFS form #2

The different fields and their corresponding rule numbers:

New form rules in Drafting for TDM Information

Fields in the SBFS form #3

The layout of this form is nearly identical with the form number 1 depicted above, the difference is the handling of the drawing name.

If a drawing is named as follows:

<drawing name> = <drawing no>-<sheet no>-<revision>, where

<drawing name> = $2000

<drawing no> = $2113

<sheet no> = $2111

<revision> = $2112

the corresponding fields in the SBFS form are updated automatically.

Functionality

Here follows a description of the functions buttons in the lower part of the SBFS form dialog:

The following three functions handles the scrolling of the @ fields.

When the function New rev. is used and the drawing update with this information, there will be one more row of the @ tables in the drawing. If there already are 20 rows (maximum no of rows), the first row of the @ tables will be removed and there will be a new row at the bottom of each table. This means that the information in these tables will be scrolled upwards when new information is entered. As long as there are less than 20 rows in these tables they will increase downwards.

Options

None.

Result:

The drawing is updated with the information as defined by the user.