Editing a Drawing View
Editing a Drawing View |
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Editing of a drawing view is done by the command "ESD: Edit Drawing View". The command is called as:
Keyboard |
Textual Menu |
Icon |
<ESD> |
"Edit|Draw|Drawing View" |
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Upon calling the command, an option appears:
<*> Select All Elements
<R> Select element from list
<Esc> Exit command
Once all drawing views are selected by the option 
, they are highlighted, and additional options appear in the automenu:
<Del> Delete selected Element(s)
<Esc> Exit command
Upon selecting a particular drawing view by clicking it 
, another option appears in the automenu:
Fixing point of view
<P> Set entity parameters
<I> Select another nearest element
<B> Add or edit breaks
The option 
allows the user to modify the fixing point of the drawing view being edited.
The option 
brings up the "Drawing View Parameters" dialog box:
Page. Displays the name of the auxiliary page corresponding to the selected drawing view.
The parameter "Scale" defines the scale factor of this page.
Clip Image, Scale Lines, Drawing Scale, Rotation Angle. These parameters affect the display of the drawing view area on the original page.
Layer, level, Priority. Define the values of the respective system-wide parameters.
The selected view is highlighted as a box with markers along the perimeter. The markers control position, rotation angle, scale, view size and the position of the fixing vector or fixing node.
Working with the markers is carried out in the same way as when creating the drawing view (or the drawing view of the element).
The following option completes drawing view editing:
<End> Finish Page View editing
The 
option enables the mode of creating/editing breaks on the view.
The command of editing the breaks of the drawing view can also be invoked without the use of the view edit command − from the context menu of the page displayed by the given view. In this context menu it is possible to specify if the diagram of breaks must be shown on the page (“Show”), and also to select the drawing view whose breaks have to be shown and edited (if there are several views displaying the given page). |
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Editing the image on a drawing view
The image on a drawing view can be edited in two modes:
1. On the drawing view page – as a regular drawing;
2. On the main page, by activating the appropriate drawing view. The view can be activated "in place" or in a separate window. Drawing view activation is done via the context menu after selecting the drawing view, or via commands in the menu "View|Drawing view".
Upon selecting one of the drawing views by clicking 
on the drawing page, the following commands become available in the context menu:
Activate Drawing View 
. Upon calling the command, all elements on the current page, except for the elements of the drawing view, are grayed out. The boundaries of the drawing view and the drawing view page become highlighted. The graphics of the drawing view can then be edited in a usual way.
Activate in new window 
. This mode differs from the previous in that a new window is opened for editing that contains the graphics of the selected drawing view.
Status 
. Brings on the screen the dialog box of the command "ST: Set Document Parameters" with the selected drawing view page settings.
When using the menu "View|Drawing view" first time, only the command "Activate…" is accessible. Upon calling this command, the drawing view selection window is displayed. The selected from the list view will be activated in the current page. |
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To return to the mode of editing the main page graphics, the active drawing view must be closed by using the command "Close Drawing View All active drawing views can also be closed by using the command "Close All Drawing Views |
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Calling the command "View|Drawing view| Activate…" from an active nested drawing view brings up a window with a list of accessible drawing views that includes <Main View>. Selecting the latter acts in the same way as the call of the command "View|Drawing view|Close All", closing all levels of activated nested drawing views. When editing graphics in the drawing views created via the options "Create New Drawing View" and "Create New Drawing View with Caption", all commands for editing copy with translation are available in the activated drawing view mode. |
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A context menu appears on right clicking over the lines on the view created by copying (in the activated drawing view area on the main page or on the view page), with the following commands under the "Move Copy" group:
●"Edit Copy" - calls the editing command "EY: Edit Copy"; ●"Delete copy" – deletes all elements of the copy; ●"Copy Parameters" – allows defining the scale and rotation angle of the translation; ●"Explode Copy" - breaks association of the moved elements with the original elements. The copied elements become independent objects, regardless of their parents creation history; ●"Explode Array" - breaks association of the moved elements with the original elements; however, relations are preserved between the objects of the copy analogous to the relations between the original objects; ●"Restore deleted elements" – allows restoring deleted elements of the copy. |
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-"Parameters" - opens dialog of transformation parameters where you can change scale and angle of rotation.
Two extra options appear at this stage:
Model scale correction (enabled by default). This option is available only for “move” transformations automatically created for the detail view. When this option is enabled, the assigned scale value is replaced by the calculated scale as follows:
The resulting scale |
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Assigned scale |
Scale of original page |
Thus, the scale of original page is considered in the movement result. This allows you to obtain correct image of detail view when scaling is used on the original page.
Consider page scales. This flag can be used for the drawing views created with the option 
, when scale of the original page and view page differ from 1:1 and do not match. When this flag is enabled the resulting view scale will take into account the scale of both pages:
Resulting scale |
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Assigned scale* Scale of drawing view page |
Scale of original page |
Setting this parameter allows you to achieve the correct correspondence of element sizes between the original drawing page and drawing view.
Adding to and modifying the image of drawing view
The image created by the 
and 
options may need modifications or additions, for example, add chamfers, rounds, clipping line, or place dimensions). One shall keep in mind that these options create graphics based on the "XM: Copy with translation" functionality, therefore, it is subject to all rules and limitations imposed on direct use of this command. Thus, only graphic lines, hatches, 2D fragments and projections are copied. The snapping nodes of the copied lines can't be modified. The copied elements can only be deleted, hidden by the command "ESO: Hide/Show Elements", or their parameters modified (for example, lower the level). Besides, these can be used for snapping the construction lines (see the chapter "Lines") for new element creation. Therefore, if editing a view involves modifying existing graphic lines, two ways of handling are possible:
1. Break association of the copies with the original elements using the command "Explode Copy" of the context menu. As associations are broken, free nodes are created, thus turning the graphics on the view into a sketch suitable for modifications. One should keep in mind that further modifications of the original elements of the drawing will not propagate on the drawing view graphics, thus breaking its parametric behavior.
2. Create new graphic lines based on the copies. To do this, first create construction entities snapped to the copy entities. Then, hide the entities of the copy if necessary. Instead of the hidden lines, create new ones by snapping to the newly created construction entities.
Clipping image by an arbitrary hatch
The image created by the option |
Original image of the detail view |
To edit the drawing view, let's activate its page. Both the hatch for clipping the view and the clipping line shall preferably be defined based on the same spline. Let's create an invisible hatch based on the spline, using the command "H: Create Hatch". Then, right click |
Spline defining clipping hatch and clipping line |
The coming up automenu will contain an option Note that the hatch can't be based on the detail view elements, as their use will create a recursive dependency. |
The original image is now clipped by the hatch created in the previous step |
The final step is creating the necessary construction lines and creation of the clipping line based on the spline. |
The original image is bounded by a thin line. The line ends are defined by the intersection points between the spline and an additionally created construction line |
Updating detail view with label
In the context menu of detail views created with the help of the 
option (detail view with label), additional command “Update drawing view” is available. It allows us to update the structure of the drawing view after the original image has been edited.
The selection of elements is carried out in the domain of the label’s note, with the use of the current filter of elements. Only those elements which were created upon creation of the view or the previous update of the view are removed from the displayed page. The elements added to the displayed page after creation of the view are retained.
Exploding Drawing View
The command of exploding the drawing view can be found in the context menu of the view in the command wait mode. As a result of exploding, the object “drawing view” is removed. In the same space, a group of standard elements of 2D drawing (nodes, graphic lines, etc.) resembling the image of the given view is created. If the drawing view image contains dimensions, then after exploding the view, the scale of the dimensions is modified in such a way that dimension’s value remains unchanged. When exploding the drawing view, whose contents is clipped by hatch (for example, when the drawing view was created as “Detailed Drawing View with Caption”), the following rules apply: ●lines clipped by hatch (for example, lines of associate copy) are replaced by standard graphic lines shortened according to the clippings on the view; ●fragments clipped by hatch are copied into the resulting set of elements together with the clipping hatch; ●hatches, clipped on the original view, disappear after exploding the view. Upon exploding, the page with the view can be removed or retained in the document. A query about the necessity of removal is sent. |
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