SUBPICTURE

Purpose:

To enable a user to copy an existing subpicture within a drawing to other locations within the drawing.

Instructions:

1. The user can select a subpicture either by identifying the subpicture by a left click or selecting the Options button. In the latter case the system responds with a dialog box in which the user is required to enter the name of the subpicture that is to be copied. The named subpicture must already exist within the currently opened and displayed drawing.

2. The system responds by drawing a rectangular box around the subpicture having the name that was input and requests the user to confirm that the selection is OK. The system then presents a simple table in which the user is to enter the number of equally spaced copies that are to be made.

3. With the cursor locate the position of the first copy by clicking the left-hand button once to make the copy appear and then drag the copy to the required position and then fix it there with a further single click of the left-hand button.

4. Select Operation Complete icon. The system responds by creating the additional copies, if the user has specified that more than one copy was required. Any additional copies are placed at equal distances apart, equal that is to the distance from the original to the first copy, and along the line projected between the original and the first copy. The user will need to repeat the use of this overall function if non-uniform spacing is required.

Options:

There are no other options within this process.

Result:

Copies of subpictures are created within the display at the selected and controlled positions, in addition to the original subpicture, and stored within the associated drawing file.