INSPECT DRAWING

Purpose:

This is a data management facility that enables a user to examine the full spectrum of information that is either contained or is implicit within a drawing.

Instructions:

On selecting this function the user is presented with a Multiple Choice box and from which he can select the specific nature/form of the data or information that he wishes to inspect. Some of the choices lead the user to other dialog boxes and from which he is required to make a further selection in order to more closely determine the type of data and/or information that he requires to examine.

Options:

The initial Multiple Choice box presents the user with the following alternatives, and in some cases, further selection choices:

1. Recreate windows

   Updates the subpicture extension cache in the current drawing.

   Note that this cache is normally kept up-to-date automatically by the system. However, this is a way of forcing the cache to be updated in case the automation for some reason has failed.

2. List object

   Supervisor for listing the overall contents of the current drawing.

3. List element

   Supervisor for listing/verifying the structural parts of the current drawing.

4. Integrity check

   Make sure no duplicate PADD references exist in the current drawing.

   Note that this functions is used for debugging purposes. The normal state is that no duplicate PADD references exist.

5. Show windows

   Supervisor for highlighting subpicture or geometry extensions in the current drawing.

6. Flag

   Special function for making all information detectable and/or possible to delete in the current drawing.

   Intended for debugging purposes.

7. Delete

   Special function for deleting elements by pointer in the current drawing

   Intended for debugging purposes

8. Performance

   Supervisor for tuning the output to the graphical screen.

9. Purge

   Removes obsolete subpictures (empty and non-vital) in the current drawing.

10. Attributes

    Supervisor for accessing attributes in the current drawing.

    Intended for debugging purposes

11. Change text code page

    In some cases, text will not be displayed properly on drawings migrated from Tribon M3 to AVEVA. It can be due to that the codepage used to encode multibyte text has been changed to UTF-8 in AVEVA. This function displays a dialog box presenting a list containing all texts within the current drawing in order to correct such texts.

    

    To convert one or more texts, check the associated check boxes in the list and click the Convert… button. A second dialog will be displayed to let the user specify another code page than UTF-8. The Preview window reflects what the resulting text will look like.

    

    When the correct code page has been selected and the text is readable, click OK and the texts in the list will be updated. To update the texts in the drawing, click OK once more.

12. Remove dimensioning from PADD

    To prevent un-persisted changes to be overwritten after a subsequent evaluation of the dimensioning, it is possible to remove the dimensioning from PADD before modifying it.

    Note that when removing a dimensioning from PADD, the associativity will permanently be lost and the sub-functions Move dimension text, Text properties and Edit Dimension text within the Modify/Dimension dialog will not apply anymore.

Result:

The user is eventually presented with dialog boxes that contain detailed sets of data and information that should assist the user in data management operations.