Setting the System Defaults

The Draft System Defaults form will be displayed when you select Settings > System Defaults from any of the Draft Administration main menus.

• To access the administration functions, select Draft > Administration.

  

  The File gadget at the top of the body of the form shows the current defaults file.

  The Master Project Defaults and Local Project Defaults sections of the form show the default settings of the pointers to the Draft Libraries. If you want to change any of these, either type the new element name into the text box, or navigate to the element required and press the appropriate CE button. The text to the right of the CE button shows the type of element required for each Library.

  Note: The library reference defaults are also shown on a User Defaults form that is accessed by selecting Options > Defaults from the main application menu. The User Defaults form is initialized with the settings from the Draft Defaults form after the defaults have been loaded from file. Subsequent changes made on the User Defaults form override (but do not change) the settings on the Draft Defaults form, allowing a user some flexibility in the use of available libraries during drawing production.

  Name delimiters. By default, the individual parts of drawing element names are separated by a slash delimiting character. For example:

  SHEETS/SHLB1/BACK1/SN1

  This option allows you to specify any other delimiter character which has been used for Style names, Label Library names and Drawlist Library names.

  

  The Further Defaults options are as follows:

  • Layer Purpose Definitions.

  • Layer Creation Definitions.

  • Layer Purpose Filtering.

  • Sheet Size Defaults.

  • Defining Element Naming Conventions

  The options under File on the menu at the top of the form are described in Saving and Loading Default Values.