Activate

Purpose:

To activate a panel, allowing changes to be made to the panel without opening the scheme. The activated panel will be locked on the database to prevent others from making changes.

Prerequisites:

A hull view containing the required panel must exist in the current drawing.

Instruction:

1. Indicate the panel to be activated.

2. Continue indicating if further panels are to be activated.

Options:

Selecting Options will reveal a form, which gives the option of including and excluding specific panels or blocks, given as names with wild cards. Panel activation may be performed by a combination of both graphically selected and named panels.

Result:

The selected panels will be highlighted with a rectangle placed around all views in the drawing that contain the panel. The rectangle will have either a letter ‘S’ or a letter ‘M’ on the line. ‘S’ means ‘Stored’ and indicates that the panel is identical to the panel on the data bank, and ‘M’ means ‘Modified’ and indicates that the panel has been modified since activation.