Open Detail View Drawing ( Drawing Editor )

Tool summary :

  • Lets you open a detail view drawing that is associated with your current member detail or 2D erection view or submaterial .
  • The drawing is Unshortened when opened and cannot be shortened. Shortening a detail view drawing would serve no purpose, because only the area within the viewport appears in the original drawing.
  • The shape and extents of the viewport in a detail view drawing can be adjusted to change the detail view area depicted in the original drawing.
  • If the original drawing is a member detail, you can annotate your detail view area differently than the area within the detail view callout in the original drawing. For example, you can alter the dimension strings or add notes.
  • The file name of a detail view is the name of the drawing in which the detail view was added followed by the " Annotation " text. For example, if a member detail has the piecemark " 1B4 " and the detail view's " Annotation " is ' 1 ', then the detail view's file name is " 1B4_1 ".)
  • Instead of Open Detail View Drawing , you can right-click ( Menu ) within the detail view area on that same drawing > choose " Edit other " > select the "detail view name" on the context menu > press the " Open " button on the Detail Area View window.
  • Another way to open a detail view is to Open ( Ctrl + o ) > Select the drawing type ( Details or Submaterial or Erection views ) > Check the box for " Detail Views " > Double-click the detail view file name.
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YouTube video: This video begins in the original creating parent drawing of the detail view. The narrator right-clicks to open the detail view drawing. The viewport is adjusted in that detail view drawing, resulting in an equivalent adjustment to the detail view box in the parent drawing.

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   Step-by-step instructions :

1 . Before using this tool:

In the Drawing Editor , File > Open the member detail or 2D erection view or submaterial whose detail view drawing you want to view.

2 . Invoke Open Detail View Drawing as follows:

Method 1 : Click the Open Detail View 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 > Open Detail View Drawing .

Method 3, 4 or 5 : Open Detail View 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 . Open Detail View Drawing opens a selection dialog with a list of detail view drawings in your current drawing. If there are no detail view drawings in your current drawing, Open Detail View Drawing informs you of such and ends this operation.

3a : Double-click the one detail view drawing that you want to view (or select it, then press " OK ").

4 . The detail view drawing that you selected in the previous step is now your current drawing.

4a (optional) : You can, if you so choose, change the shape and extents of the viewport.

4b (optional) : Edit the detail view drawing in the same way as you would edit the original drawing type ( member detail or 2D erection view or submaterial ).

4c (optional) : Saved ( Ctrl + s ) changes will be visible within the detail view area (but not the callout) of the detail view in the original drawing. The original drawing will otherwise remain unchanged.

5 . When you are done viewing or editing the detail view drawing, choose File > Open to exit the detail view drawing and open a different drawing.

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