SUBPICTURE

Purpose:

To insert a subpicture, fetched from the Subpicture data bank or any other data bank, into the current drawing.

Instructions:

1. In the Insert menu, click Subpicture.

2. In the object browser dialog that now appears, you are prompted to key in the name of the subpicture. It is possible to browse the contents of the Subpicture data bank by keying in a wild card name.

3. If the subpicture selected is a view, no owner has to be defined. Otherwise, the user is requested to indicate the owner, to which the subpicture shall belong structurally. Clicking Operation Complete here means that a new view and possibly a subview will be created automatically.

   The transformation of the owner will now be applied on the subpicture, before it is positioned and possibly transformed by the user.

   Note: For subpictures to be used in nesting sketches the highest level should always be level 3. By ensuring that subpictures do not have a higher level than 3 then it will be possible to control in which subview of the nesting picture object the inserted subpicture should be put

Options:

To fetch subpictures from a data bank other that the initially system-proposed, click Options while inside the browser. The system will then let you key in the name of another data bank (the name of the current data bank is proposed).

Result:

A copy of the user-given subpicture is inserted and transformed in the current drawing.