Contextual Menu of Drawing View

In addition to commands standard for all T-FLEX CAD elements, the contextual menu of drawing view contains following specific commands:

 

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.  Any 2D objects created on a drawing in this mode will belong to the active view.

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.

The detailed information on views activation is available in the Activate Drawing View or 2D Projection section.

View Page Parameters
Brings on the screen the Document Parameters dialog for a page of a selected drawing view.

The Synchronize Page Parameters checkbox is enabled by default for detail views. In such case, parameters of view page cannot be changed, because they're defined by parameters of a document's page, which view belongs to. Disable the checkbox, if you want to set view page parameters different from parameters of document's page.

Edit Breaks
The detailed information on this command is available in the Breaks of 2D Projections and Drawing Views section.

Explode Drawing View
As a result of exploding, the drawing view is deleted, while all its content (nodes, graphic lines, etc.) are transferred directly to the drawing page. 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. The system asks the question when exploding a view: "Unite in group objects resulted from drawing view exploding?". Depending on the answer, objects are either grouped or transferred individually. Name of the group corresponds to the name of exploded view. A second question is also asked on whether to delete view's page or not. 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.

Update Drawing View
Updates only the selected view in a similar way as the Update command for other types of elements.

Edit Contour (available for detail views only)
Outline can be edited in the same way as when creating a view.

Additional >

•Synchronize Page Parameters (available for detail views only)
When this checkbox is enabled (by default), parameters of view's page are synchronized with parameters of document's page, which contains this view. So, changing document's page parameters changes view's page parameters. On contrary, manual changes of view's page parameters are not applied. Disable the checkbox, if you want to set view page parameters different from parameters of document's page. On the first synchronization, parameters of document's page are applied to view's page.

•Automatically Update View Border
This checkbox gets enabled automatically, upon creating a view, if you don't use the view size manipulators (blue frame).

oFor detail views:
If the checkbox is enabled, then the view boundaries (non-printable dashed frame) are automatically re-sized upon update depending on changes in view content size. Size of view content may change due to modifying the view contour or scale. If the checkbox is disabled, Then the boundaries size doesn't change, regardless of content size.

oFor generic drawing views:
If the checkbox is enabled, then the view boundaries coincide with the paper size specified in view page parameters.

In order to re-size view boundaries manually, Edit the view and use the view size manipulators. This action disables the checkbox of automatic update. If the checkbox is disabled, then the view boundaries keep the configuration defined via manipulators.

Keep in mind, that using view size manipulators during creation of a view changes the paper size, while using such manipulators during editing  doesn't affect the paper size.

•Automatically Update Position of View Designation (available for detail views only)
If this checkbox is enabled, then the view designation gets automatically placed above the center of the view content. If this checkbox is disabled, then the view designation keeps its position in the local coordinate system of the view. The checkbox is enabled by default, but it gets automatically disabled upon manual repositioning of the view designation.

•Apply Breaks in Active View
The detailed information on this option is available in the Breaks of 2D Projections and Drawing Views section.

Document Parameters...

When a view is not active, this command invoked from contextual menu of the view brings on the screen the Document Parameters dialog for a document page, which the view belongs to.

When a view is active, this command invoked from contextual menus of view's elements and of 2D window's empty space brings on the screen the Document Parameters dialog for the view page.

The Synchronize Page Parameters checkbox is enabled by default for detail views. In such case, parameters of view page cannot be changed, because they're defined by parameters of a document's page, which the view belongs to. Disable the checkbox, if you want to set view page parameters different from parameters of document's page.

Since detail views are created by automatic application of the Copy with Translation command to elements of the source view, the contextual menu of detail view's elements contains same commands as contextual menus of other associative copies.