Set Overall Defaults

• To view or modify, the overall default settings, select Default_Settings > Overall from the menu bar on the H&S Batch Macro Generation form.

  The H&S Overall Defaults form displays as shown.

  

H&S Drawing Registry

This text box shows the name of the Draft Registry element under which new hanger and support drawings will be created. The name of each Drawing within the Registry is derived from the name of the restraint and a prefix, as specified in the Design Pipe Hangers & Supports application.

CE button allows you to copy the name of the current element into the text box in the usual way.

Pipe Ends Symbols

If set to ON, the ends of pipes on the drawings will be shown by the symbols defined in the relevant library

View Titles

If set to ON, the titles of the individual views in each drawing will be shown.

Dimension to UNBUILT Hangers

If set to ON, dimensions will be plotted for all hangers owned by a restraint, including any standard hanger configurations which have been created but which have not yet been built; that is, those which exist in the Design DB as HANG elements but which have no members. If set to OFF, dimensions will be plotted only for those hangers which have been built.

Dimension to Grid Lines

You can set this to plot dimensions which use predefined grid lines for their datum points in either of two ways:

• Local to View plots the dimensions directly on each view within the drawing.

• On Location Plan plots the dimensions on a separate keyplan view.

Gridlines option button allows you to select the STRUCture where the grid lines are stored.

Dimension to Reference Plates

If set to ON, Draft will plot dimensions which use predefined reference plate positions for their datum points.

Note: The Dimension to Grid Lines and Dimension to Reference Plates options are mutually exclusive. You must set one of them to OFF before you can use the other.

Steel Projection Coordinates

If set to ON, the coordinates of projected steel sections will be plotted.

Tag Main Steel with Name

If set to ON, all main steel sections which have been given PDMS names will have those names plotted next to them on the drawings.

Tag Pipe Elevations

If set to ON, the elevations of all pipe centrelines will be plotted.

H&S Detail Description
H&S Material Description

The component descriptions shown in the material list on a hangers and supports drawing can include both the geometric description (derived from the attributes of a Catalogue DTEXT element) and the material description (derived from the attributes of a Catalogue MTEXT element).

In each case you can specify which of three attributes is to be used. The detail description can be taken from the RTEXT, STEXT or TTEXT attribute of the DTEXT element: the material description can be taken from the XTEXT, YTEXT or ZTEXT attribute of the MTEXT element.

To suppress the output of one or both types of descriptive text, set the corresponding toggle button to Off.

H&S Data Properties

If this option button is switched on, all catalogue items with PURP set to DATA will be displayed.

H&S BOM Distance Precision

Use this option button to set number of decimal places displayed.

Orthogonal Projection

Use this option button to set the orthogonal projection of the plotted drawings to either First Angle or Third Angle.

View Title Text Height

Enter the required height (in mm) for the text used to show view titles (relevant only if View Titles is set to ON).

View Graphics to Scale
View Graphics Scale Factor

During the automatic drawing process, all design graphics are first scaled to fit the available drawing area and are then reduced by a further factor to allow space for adding dimensions and symbols.

View Graphics Scale Factor

Enter the required scaling factor in the text box for the second stage of this process.

View Graphics to Scale

If set to ON, the design graphics will be reduced a third time so that they are plotted to the nearest standard scale below that which results from the second stage. If this option is set to OFF, the graphics will be plotted to a non-standard scale.

The scale used will be shown in the drawing's title block.

The standard scales to which graphics may be plotted by the automatic drawing process are defined on the H&S Standard Scales form.

View Border Width

Enter the required width (in mm) for the border between the view frame and the view limits as defined in the backing sheet.

View Section Distance (3D)

Enter the 3D distance (in mm) at which the main steelwork is to be sectioned, measured from its connection point to the support steelwork.