Create Base Drawing

Create Base Drawing ( Drawing Editor )

Tool summary :

Creates a base drawing of your current drawing. The base drawing is a copy of the last-saved version of that drawing or sheet.
Only one base drawing can be associated with a drawing. Create Base Drawing will overwrite any previous base drawing that has been created.
A base drawing may be created automatically when a member detail is added to a sheet. The old base drawing for each member detail on a sheet may be replaced when you " Lock ... " during an Edit Revision Chart , or when you " Lock ... " during printing, or when you use the Lock... change option. Increment Sheet Revisions replaces the old base drawings on the detail sheet being incremented. This tool, Create Base Drawing , provides an alternative way to create a base drawing.
If " Detail with revisions " is checked during Detail Members , member detailing clouds differences between the base drawing and the new detail.
Why replace an old base drawing? To change the way that Detail Members clouds the detail.
Why create the first base drawing? So that Detail Members can cloud changes on revised versions of that member detail.
Also see (on this page):

Also see :

Drawing Editor (where Create Base Drawing is a tool)
Base drawing (topic)
Archived drawing (related topic)
Sheet Item Add (may create base drawings as member details are placed)
Detail Sheet Autoloading (may create base drawings as member details are placed)
Lock ... (may create base drawing when revision chart is locked)
Lock/ Unlock Sheet Revisions (may create base drawing when revision chart is locked)
Lock sheet revision chart (may create base drawing when checked during printing)
Detail with revisions (clouds changes since base drawing during Detail Members )
Detail with revisions (clouds changes since base drawing during Detail Submaterial )
Detail with revisions (clouds changes since base drawing during Detail Erection Views )
Create Base Drawing (a Change option that lets you create multiple base drawings)
Disable automatic creation of BASE drawings ( Fabricator > Sheets and Reports > Sheet Revisions )
Disable automatic creation of ARCHIVED drawings ( Fabricator > Sheets and Reports > Sheet Revisions )
Delete Project Items (utility to remove base and archived drawings from your current Job)

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Creating a base drawing from your current drawing or sheet :

1 . Before using this tool:

In the Drawing Editor , Open the drawing or sheet that you want to create a base drawing of. You can use this tool to create a base drawing for an erection view or submaterial or detail sheet or gather sheet or erection sheet as well as for a member detail .

If you make changes to that drawing, you need to first Save your changes if you want those changes to be included in the base drawing.

Your current drawing or sheet may already have a base drawing. To see if it does, choose File > Open Archive Drawing . The base drawing, if on exists, will be the first file that is listed, and its file name will end in _BASE . Press the " Cancel " button unless you actually want to view an archived drawing.

If your current drawing or sheet already has a base drawing and Home > Project Settings > Fabricator > Sheet Revisions > " Disable automatic creation of ARCHIVED drawings " is turned on (checked), you may want to create an archived drawing of that base drawing before proceeding to step 2. See creating an archived drawing from a base drawing .

2 . Invoke Create Base Drawing as follows:

Method 1 : Click the Create Base Drawing icon. The icon can be taken from the group named ' File ' and placed on a toolbar (classic) or the ribbon (lightning).

Method 2 : If " Drawing Editor layout style " is ' Classic ', you can use the menu system to choose File > Create Base Drawing .

Method 3, 4 or 5 : Create Base Drawing can also be invoked using a keyboard shortcut , the context menu , or a mode . For the ' Lightning ' layout style, configuration of the interface is done using Customize Interface .

3 . Create Base Drawing creates a base drawing of the last-saved version of your current drawing. Please note the following:

If a base drawing has already been created, the old base drawing is replaced by the new base drawing you just created. Additionally, if Home > Project Settings > Fabricator > Sheet Revisions > " Disable automatic creation of ARCHIVED drawings " is turned off (unchecked), an archived drawing of the old base drawing will be created.

If you Detail Members and check the box for " Detail with revisions " and select the detail you just created a base drawing for, differences between the base drawing and the newly generated detail will be clouded .

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Creating an archived drawing from a base drawing :

You may want to perform this procedure when Home > Project Settings > Fabricator > Sheet Revisions > " Disable automatic creation of ARCHIVED drawings " is turned on (checked) in setup. To make a copy of your current base drawing (an archived drawing), you can do the following:

1 . In your current drawing or sheet:

1a : Choose File > Open Archive Drawing and select the base drawing that you want to create an archived drawing of.

2 . The base drawing you selected in step 1a is now your current drawing.

2a : Choose File > Create Base Drawing .

3 . A Yes-No dialog opens.

	This is already a base drawing. Would you like to create another archive of this drawing?

3a : Press the " Yes " button to create an archived drawing of that base drawing. Go to step 4.

4 . An archived drawing has now been created of the base drawing that is your current drawing.

4a (optional) : To open the new archived drawing that you just created, choose File > Open Archive Drawing . The new archived drawing will be the drawing that is listed last on the selection dialog.

4b : To open the drawing that was your current drawing in step 1, choose Open ( Ctrl + o ), then select that drawing.

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Making an archived drawing into the base drawing :

If " Detail with revisions " is checked during Detail Members , member detailing clouds differences between the base drawing and the new detail. You can use Create Base Drawing to make a particular archived drawing into the base drawing that Detail Members will look at the next time you " Detail with revisions ."

1 . Your current drawing should be the member detail, submaterial detail or erection view drawing that you want to create the base drawing for.

Choose File > Open Archived Drawing and select the archived drawing that you want to be made into your base drawing.

2 . The archived drawing you selected in step 1a should now be your current drawing.

Choose File > Create Base Drawing .

3 . The archived drawing that is your current drawing is now the base drawing .

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Automatic creation of archived drawings (four examples) :

These examples apply when the box is not checked ( ) for Home > Project Settings > Fabricator > Sheet Revisions > " Disable automatic creation of ARCHIVED drawings ." When a new base drawing is created from the member detail (examples 1 and 3), an archived drawing is also created. When an archived drawing is made into a base drawing ( example 4 ), a new archived drawing is not created.

Example 1: The example shows the result of creating a base drawing from your current member detail (see above ). B_6 is the current member detail. After Create Base Drawing , two archived drawings are associated with B_6. They are both exact copies of B_6.

Drawings of B_6 at beginning:	Create Base Drawing of B_6:
B_6	B_6 * 6_BASE * 6_rev0 * * all drawings are the same

When you Create Base Drawing of a member detail (B_6), an archived drawing (6_rev0 in this example) is created along with the base drawing (6_BASE).

Example 2: This example begins where example 1 left off. The user makes a change to B_6 and then does a File > Save .

Drawings of B_6 at beginning:	Change B_6, Save :
B_6 * 6_BASE * 6_rev0 * * all drawings are the same	B_6 6_BASE * 6_rev0 * * two drawings are the same

B_6 has changes in it that do not exist in 6_BASE and 6_rev0.

Example 3: This example applies when the box is not checked ( ) for Home > Project Settings > Fabricator > Sheet Revisions > " Disable automatic creation of ARCHIVED drawings ." The example begins where example 2 left off. It shows the result of creating a base drawing from your current member detail (see above ).

Drawings of B_6 at beginning:	Create Base Drawing of B_6:
B_6 6_BASE * 6_rev0 * * two drawings are the same	B_6 * 6_BASE * 6_rev0 6_rev1 * * three drawings are the same

When you Create Base Drawing of a member detail (B_6 in this example), an archived drawing (6_rev1) is created along with the new base drawing (6_BASE) and the copy of the old base drawing (6_rev0) remains unchanged. The new base drawing (6_BASE) is now an exact copy of B_6.

Example 4: This example begins where example 3 left off. The user does a File > Open Archived Drawing , selects ' 6_rev0 ' then does a Create Base Drawing .

Drawings of B_6 at beginning:	6_rev0 is made base drawing:
B_6 * 6_BASE * 6_rev0 6_rev1 * * three drawings are the same	B_6 * 6_BASE 6_rev0 6_rev1 * * two drawings are the same ** two drawings are the same

The new base drawing (6_BASE) is an exact copy of the archived drawing that was open (6_rev0) at the time the user did the Create Base Drawing . Note that an archived copy of the base drawing is not created.

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