Create a Department

1. Departments can be created under the World level by selecting Create > Department from the main menu.

2. The Create DEPT form is displayed, which allows you to name the Department. Alternatively, you can accept the default name DEPT1, for example, which is shown in the Name field.

   The suggested name will be the lowest department number that does not already exist.

   

3. Select OK from the Create DEPT form. The Department Information form is displayed.

   

   This form allows you to automatically create a Registry and/or to set up Attributes of the Department.

   Name	Shows the name of the Department
   Create Registry	Select checkbox to automatically create a Registry
   Attributes	Displays the Department Attributes form.

4. Select Attributes to display the Department Attributes form showing the available attributes and features four tabs for selection.

Size & Units

5. Select the Size & Units tab.

6. Select the Units and set the Precision.

7. Select Apply.

Intelligent Text

8. Select the Intelligent Text tab.

9. Select an output format for the Positional code words.

10. Select Apply.

Pens

11. Select the Pens tab.

12. Set the line colours, font, style, and thickness.

13. Select Apply.

Miscellaneous

14. Select the Miscellaneous tab.

15. Set various attributes, including the Date Format and Dimension Terminator.

16. Select Apply.

    The attributes set in this form are default properties of the Registries that will eventually be created in the branch below the Department. The attributes are cascaded down through the Registries and drawings within this department, but they can be changed at any level. The default properties of the sheets are taken from the drawings element.

    In the Pens tab, Standard options of line colour and style are set explicitly by selecting system-defined settings from the colour, line-pattern, and thickness dropdown lists. Selecting Pick allows a colour to be selected from a colour palette.

17. To select a user-defined style, the checkbox is ticked to display the User-defined line styles form. A Style Table is selected and then a selection is made from the list of styles.

    In the Intelligent Text system there are code words that are used to request the position of certain elements. These expand to a string providing the location expressed in either the ENU (East North Up) coordinate system, as an absolute position (XYZ), or as a purely numerical output (Numbers only).

18. To accomplish this, two attributes are provided for a number of elements in the Draft database (including DEPT, REGI, DRWG, SHEE, VIEW, LAYE). The setting of these attributes determines the output format used by the positional code words, and are determined by the selection made in the Intelligent Text tab. The same output format is used throughout a given layer.

19. With the Create Registry checkbox on the Department Information form selected, click OK to create the department and display the Create REGI form.