The Sheet Revisions window ( Fabricator Settings )

Settings applied here , to the Sheet Revisions window, are stored in your current Fabricator . When you " Change Fabricator ," you change to a different collection of settings, and the setting for this window in that Fabricator may be different then the settings on this window for your current Fabricator.

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   To open Sheet Revisions :

Method 1 : Home > Project Settings > Fabricator > Sheets and Reports > Sheet Revisions .

Methods 2, 3 & 4 : In Modeling or the Drawing Editor , choose Settings > Fabricator Settings > Sheet Revisions (classic), or use a keyboard shortcut , or click the icon.

Password protection: If a password has been set using the Change Setup Password utility, you can open this window only if you first enter that exact password.

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   Example and headings on a revision chart :

A revision chart without any entries made to it:

Choices made here, in Sheet Revisions , for the chart above:

Same revision chart after Increment Sheet Revisions and after details on the sheet were re-detailed with the box checked for " Detail with revisions ." The cyan-colored lettering was entered using Sheet Revision Chart Editor , but could have also been entered with Increment Sheet Revisions .

REV: Entries to this column on the revision chart can be alphabetical or numerical, depending on the selection made to " Increment sheet revision " when you Increment Sheet Revisions . For example, if you select ' Numerically ' for " Increment sheet revision ," the number 0 is entered to this column the first time you Increment Sheet Revisions , and the number 1 is entered the next time. Also, if the box is checked for " Locked ... " in the sheet revision editor, auto detailing automatically enters the next letter or number to this column if a member detail on the sheet is changed as a result of re-detailing with the box checked for " Detail with revisions ."

DATE: When you Increment Sheet Revisions , the default entry made to this column on the revision chart is today's date in the form of "month day year" ( Nov 8 2006 ). Also, if the box is checked for " Locked ... " in the sheet revision editor, Automatic detailing enters the date here along with the new revision in the " REV " column if a member detail on the sheet is changed as a result of re-detailing with the box checked for " Detail with revisions ."

DESCRIPTION (member details only) : The " Short revision description " in Member Status Review is entered to this column on the revision chart during Detail Members if the box is checked for " Detail with revisions " and the detailed member appears on the sheet with that revision chart and the current short revision description has changed since the member was last detailed.

DESCRIPTION (regardless of drawing type) : The entry made to " Revision description " during Increment Sheet Revisions appears in this column.

USER 1 or USER 2 or USER 3 or USER 4: "USER 1" was changed to " CKD " in the example above . "USER 2" was changed to " DTL " in that same example. If you don't want one of these columns to appear on the revision chart, set the " Plot Order " to ' Inactive ' (' - ' for USER 3 and USER 4 in the example above ). Entries can be made to these columns using Revision Chart > Edit (while on the sheet that the chart is placed on) or by using Change Options > Increment Sheet Revisions while in Modeling or the Drawing Editor .

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------ Sheet revisions ------

Disable automatic creation of BASE drawings: or . This option applies to member details , submaterial details and erection view drawings .

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If you File > Open Archived Drawing , one of the drawings you can then select might be a base drawing . The characters _BASE in this example indicate that the file is a base drawing. See scenario 2 .

If this box is checked ( ), you need to create a base drawing manually if you want automatic detailing to cloud revision changes when you auto detail members, submaterials or erection views. Manual creation of base drawings can be done for these and other drawing types using the Change option Create Base Drawings . This helps to minimize the disk space taken up by your current Job .

If the box is not checked ( ), base drawings are automatically created when members, submaterials or erection views are placed on detail sheets using Sheet Item Add or Detail Sheet Autoloading or Gather Sheet Autoloading . Automatic creation of base drawings is also done for each member detail on a sheet when you " Lock ... " during an Edit Revision Chart , or when you " Lock sheet revision chart " during printing, or when you Increment Sheet Revisions .

Why have base drawings? The answer is that base drawings make automatic revision clouding of drawings possible. When " Detail with revisions " is checked during auto detailing, auto detailing compares the base drawing with the newly created drawing and clouds the differences on the new drawing, placing the clouds on the revision layer of the new drawing. If there is no base drawing, there will be no clouding of differences. Automatic revision clouding may be done for the following:

" Detail with revisions " Detail Members
" Detail with revisions " Detail Submaterial
" Detail with revisions " Detail Erection Views

Manual creation of base drawings: You can manually create a base drawing by choosing File > Create Base Drawing while viewing a member detail. This can be done even when automatic creation of base drawings is disabled.

Also see: The Change option Create Base Drawings can be used to create base drawings even when the automatic creation of them is disabled. The Delete Project Items utility can be used to remove base drawings and archived drawings from your current Job.

Disable automatic creation of ARCHIVED drawings: or . This option applies to member details , submaterial details and erection view drawings .

6_BASE
6_rev0
6_rev1
6_rev2
6_rev3



If you File > Open Archived Drawing , you will get a list of archived drawings. In this example, drawing 6_rev3 is a copy of 6_BASE . The drawings 6_rev0 and 6_rev1 and 6_rev2 are copies of previously created base drawings. See scenario 1 .

If this box is checked ( ), an archived drawing is not created when a new base drawing is created from a member detail, submaterial detail or erection view drawing. This helps to minimize the disk space taken up by your current Job .

If the box is not checked ( ), then when a new base drawing is created, an archived drawing is also created. While the base drawing will be overwritten the next time that a new base drawing is created, the archived drawing will remain. See the examples that are shown for Create Base Drawing .

Scenario 1:

6_BASE
6_rev0
6_rev1
6_rev2
6_rev3



" Disable automatic creation of BASE drawings " is turned off.

" Disable automatic creation of ARCHIVED drawings " is turned off.

New base drawings are created automatically, and each time a new base drawing is created, it replaces the old base drawing, and an archived copy (' _rev ' drawing) of the new base drawing is also created. The archived ' _rev ' drawings are maintained as records of previous base drawings.

Scenario 2:

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" Disable automatic creation of BASE drawings " turned off.

" Disable automatic creation of ARCHIVED drawings " is turned on.

Each drawing has only one (or none) automatically created archived drawing associated with it. That one archived drawing is the base drawing. Each time a new base drawing is automatically created, it replaces the old base drawing.

Scenario 3:

" Disable automatic creation of BASE drawings " is turned on.

" Disable automatic creation of ARCHIVED drawings " is turned off.

An archived drawing will be created automatically along with the base drawing when you manually Create Base Drawings .

Also see: Archive Current Drawing can be used to create an archived drawing even when automatic creation of archived drawings is disabled. The Delete Project Items utility can be used to remove base drawings and archived drawings from your current Job.

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------ Revision annotations ------

Modify bill of material: Leave minimum information or Leave completely blank or Remove . This applies to detail sheets and the member bills of material when the box is checked for " Detail with revisions " during Detail Members . It only applies if a material is deleted from the bill of material.

' Leave minimum information ' keeps the reference to the minor mark of the material on the bill of material.

' Leave completely blank ' leaves the affected line on the bill of material completely blank.

' Remove ' deletes all information on the affected line and moves the next line up to that line.

For the examples above , the " Print Order " for Revision was set to ' Prefix ' -- and this is the reason that delta symbols are shown next to lines in the bill that have been altered.

Method to be used for clouding changes on details: Cloud each change or Group changes tightly or Group changes loosely . This applies when " Detail with revisions " is selected during Detail Members and the detail being generated is different than the base drawing . A base drawing is created automatically when a member detail is placed on a sheet and for member details already on a sheet when a revision chart is locked. Users can also create new base drawings.

The following three examples show the effect of increasing the number of rows of bolts in the clip angles from two to three.

' Cloud each change ' draws a cloud around each item in the current drawing that was different in the base drawing. Each cloud is identified with a delta symbol (a triangle) with the revision inside of it.

' Group changes tightly ' draws L-shaped and T-shaped clouds around groups of items that have changed on the drawing. Fewer delta symbols are used than when you ' Cloud each change '.

' Group changes loosely ' draws rectangular clouds around groups of items that have changed on the drawing. The clouds are more likely to include items that have not changed.

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------ Chart layout ------

Warning : Changing the " Field Width " or number of columns (using " Print Order ") affects the spacing of data in revision charts that are already on sheets. Changing the " Header Line " only affects future Place Revision Chart operations.

Header Line: The text you want for a particular column in the revision chart. You can type over the current header line with any number of characters up to the " Field Width " number.

Example: The " Header Line " for the first column in the example of the revision chart shown above is " REV ."

Field Width: The number of characters that you want an individual column to be wide. Two characters (one at the beginning, the other at the end) are added automatically to create margins for each column (see " Report width in characters "). Be aware that if you do not allocate enough space for an entry that is made to a column, that entry overwrites into the next column.

Example 1: In the example shown above, the " Field Width " is ' 6 ' for the " REV " column, ' 12 ' for " DATE " and ' 30 ' for " DESCRIPTION ." As a result, Place Revision Chart generates a chart with a DESCRIPTION column that is two and a half times as wide as the DATE column, which in turn is twice as wide as the REV column.

Example 2: To " Field Width " you enter ' 6 ' for the " REV " column, ' 5 ' for the " DATE " column and ' 13 ' for the " DESCRIPTION " column. After you Place Revision Chart on a sheet, you Increment Sheet Revisions for that same sheet and press " OK " without changing the defaults. The result is that today's date ( Nov 9 2006 ) overwrites into the DESCRIPTION column as illustrated below:

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Print Order: Inactive (-) or 1 or 2 or 3 , etc. ' Inactive ' (-) prevents a column from appearing on the revision chart. ' 1 ' or ' 2 'or ' 3 ', etc. sets the order in which the column appears on the revision chart. ' 1 ' is the leftmost column, ' 2 ' is the second column from the left, and so on ...

Example 1: ' 2 ' is the " Print Order " for the " DATE " column in the example shown above. Therefore, DATE is the second column from the left.

Example 2: ' Inactive ' is the " Print Order " for the " USER 3 " and " USER 4 " columns in the example shown above. Therefore, USER 3 and USER 4 columns do not appear on the chart that is generated using Place Revision Chart .

Report width in characters: The total number of characters that the revision chart will be wide. This number is automatically calculated from the " Field Width " assigned to columns on the revision chart for which a " Plot Order " of ' 1 ' or greater has been assigned. Two characters are added for each column in the chart (one space at the beginning, the other at the end) to create margins for separating the columns in the report. Making a particular column on the report ' Inactive ' decreases the chart width. Assigning a " Print Order " number to a column that was formerly ' Inactive ' increases the chart width.

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   To close Sheet Revisions :

   

"OK" (or the Enter key) closes this window and saves the settings on it to the current Fabricator . They will be applied in your current Job whenever that Fabricator is your current Fabricator. See the warning before you press " OK ."

"Cancel" (or the Esc key or the button) closes this window without saving any changes made to it.

"Reset" undoes all changes made to this window since you first opened it. The window remains open.

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