OPEN

Purpose:

To open an existing drawing form and make this the current drawing. The drawing form is fetched from the Form data bank or any other data bank. This function is used in combination with the function Save to update an already existing drawing form, or to create a new drawing form based on a modification of an existing drawing form.

Instructions:

1. In the Tools menu, click Drawing Form, then Open.

2. If a drawing already is current, you will be prompted to save this drawing before the new one is opened.

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

Result:

The drawing form will be converted to a general drawing and renamed by prefixing the form name with "F_". The layout and the set of rules can then be updated with ordinary tools, before converting it back to a drawing form, using the function Save.