Setting the Draft Defaults

This chapter tells you how to define the default settings that will be used in the Draft applications.

When you enter Draft and load the forms and menus interface, the macro %PDMSUI%/DRA/Admin/START calls the user-defined setup macro %PDMSDFLTS%/DRA-SETUP DRAFT which, among other actions, points to the location of the main Draft defaults file, DRA-GEN-SYSTEM. The environment variable PDMSDFLTS is set to the folder where the defaults file is stored. Remember, if you wish to change the start up operation, that you should only modify DRA-SETUP, not the AVEVA-defined START or VARS files.

As a Draft administrator, you can change the settings in the defaults files, if necessary creating a different defaults file for each of the company’s drafting requirements. The defaults file accessed by an individual user is determined by the setting of the user's PDMSDFLTS environment variable.

Defaults can be set for the following:

• Definitions of layers for use with views; defined in terms of their purpose and associated attribute groups.

• Definitions of name delimiters; that is, the characters used to separate the component parts of an element’s name.

• Pointers to the libraries from which the different aspects of Draft’s drawing functions obtain their standard data, for example:

  • 2D symbols and labels

  • Backing sheets and overlay sheets

  • Global representation rules and local styles

  • Circulation lists

  • Drawlists

  • Tag rules and tag templates

  • DRWG and SHEE templates