SAVE AS STD DETAIL

Purpose:

To save a subpicture in the current drawing as a detail in the Standard Detail Book (details reside as subpictures of level 1-3 (view, subview or component) in the Standard data bank).

Instructions:

1. In the Tools menu, click Subpicture, then Save as Std Detail.

2. Identifying the subpicture

   The subpicture to save can be identified in two ways:

   • By indicating the subpicture. To identify by name instead, click Cancel.

   • By keying in the name of the subpicture. If the drawing contains more that one subpicture with the given name, you have to confirm which one to save. To identify by cursor instead, just type an empty Return.

3. Joining the book

   Once the subpicture has been identified, it should be registered as a detail in the Standard Detail Book. This is done by giving the page, followed by the detail number within this page.

   First, all existing pages in the book are presented in a dialog, from where the desired page is selected by user. If the user wants to create a new page, or update the description of an existing page, click Options. The system will then ask the user to key in the number of the page of interest, where after the page description is supplied by user (if the page already exists, the old description is proposed).

   Once the page is given, all details within this page are presented in a dialog, from where the desired one is selected by user. Non-existing details are revealed by the description

   "<not defined>".

   Once selected, the system will then ask the user to supply/update the description for this detail (if the detail already exists, the old description is proposed).

4. Saving the detail

   If the subpicture contains drawing components (like dimensionings, notes ), you are informed about this and decide if these also should be saved. If the detail already exists in the data bank, you must confirm the overwriting before the detail is saved.

   For obvious reasons, the subpicture must be saved in a neutral format (that means, not transformed) in the data bank.

   Now, the system has accumulated every transformation that has been applied on the subpicture during its lifetime. To achieve neutral format, the inverse of this transformation history will be applied to the subpicture before saving it. Note that the transformation history of a subpicture can be viewed and optionally redefined in the function Redefine Transformation.

Options:

None.

Result:

The user-given subpicture is saved as a detail in the Standard Detail Book, in a neutral format with any transformations that may have been made to it during its lifetime effectively reversed.