No Paint Layout ( Modeling )
Tool summary :
- A no paint layout consists of dummy material. As such, it is not on any member's bill of material, nor can it be downloaded to a CNC file. Detail Submaterial cannot detail dummy material. Furthermore, this material has no " Weight when identified on the General Information window. Its only purpose is to create an area on a member detail suitable for annotation.
General Information , OK , Cancel , Reset
Red-colored highlighting identifies an entry that is invalid. You need to change that entry, or you will not be able to close this window using " OK ."
Also see :
- No Paint (creates a rectangular no paint area)
- Show paint stripe on framing side of shear plates (can show a no paint symbol per-drawing)
- Show paint stripe on framing side of shear plates (a setup option)
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Overview :
- The No Paint Layout tool's icon can be taken from the group named ' Model -- Material ' and placed on a toolbar (classic) or the ribbon (lightning). It is available at no additional cost to SDS2 software users whose support accounts are current. For more information, contact your SDS2 sales representative.
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" Copy " " Paste " " Save " " Load " buttons :
- You'll find buttons like these at the top of this window. They apply to all user-editable settings that are on this window. Click here for more information.
- You can " Copy " (
) the settings on this window, then " Paste " ( 
) those settings to a different no paint layout.
- " Save " (
) saves a "form" file to the 
form/NoPaintLayoutMtrl_GenSettings folder that is used by your current version of this program. Give the form a name that will help other users identify its purpose. " Load " ( 
) copies over all settings on this window with the settings that are stored in the file that you select.
- " Paste " and " Load " replace mixed entries to a single field with a single entry. " Copy " and " Save " ignore fields with mixed entries, treating them as if they have no entry or do not exist.
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Step-by-step instructions
A no paint layout may be laid out in a plan view or an elevation view . These instructions assume that you are using a 3-button mouse. To add a no paint layout TO a member (pre-selection method):
1 . No paint layout work points should be done in a view whose work plane is orthogonal to (at right angles to) the material being added.
- Select the one (1) member that you want to add the material to (so that it is displayed in the " Primary selection color ") > press F3 > filter for "
Other " > double-click " No Paint Layout " > continue to step 2.
- Instead of using F3, you can activate the No Paint Layout tool by clicking the icon represented at the top of this page or by using a keyboard shortcut or by using the classic menu system or etc.
2 . The status line prompts, " Locate Point ." Locate-Pan-Cancel mouse bindings become active. Select the appropriate Locate option, then place your first work point. Locate-OK-Cancel mouse bindings become active. Continue to place work points as described below. The following illustration shows work points for a no paint layout laid out in a plan view.
2a : Corner rounding options appear on either a window (classic) or on a section of the ribbon's Layout page (lighting). As you left-click ( Locate ) to define points, remember to set corner rounding for the most recently located point before you left-click ( Locate ) to define the next point. Below is an example of a no paint layout with and without corner rounding.
2b (optional) : If you accidentally left-click ( Locate ) at a point you do not want, hold down Shift and middle-click ( Remove ) to remove that point. You can remove as many points as you like, then continue locating points as described in 2a.
2c : Middle-click ( OK ) with your mouse pointer anywhere in the view. This locates the final point exactly where you placed the starting point.
3 . After you have located the closing point, the No Paint Layout Edit window opens.
1a : " Thickness " and " Thickness reference point " etc. are filled out with default settings that match the last no paint layout that you added or edited in your current Modeling session. If you did not previously add or edit such a layout, default settings populate the window. You should change these settings as you see fit, then press the " OK " button.
Tip: The near side of the no paint layout is the face of the layout you were looking at in the view in which you added the it (unless you rotated around the Y or Z axes). You can use the " Thickness reference point " option to set whether the thickness of the layout is on the near side, far side or center.
4 . The Rotate Material window opens, and a preview of the new no paint layout is shown on screen. Do one (1) of the following:
Alternative 1 : Press " Cancel ." This stops the layout from being added and ends the No Paint Layout operation while leaving the member selected.
Alternative 2 : To accept the material's present rotation, press the " OK " button. Go to step 5.
Alternative 3 : Change the material's rotational settings and then press " OK " if you want to rotate the material.
5 : After rotating the material into place > right-click ( Cancel ) if done adding material to the member. Possibly, the Material Add window opens if members that are like the member to which you are adding the material exist in your current Job. Check the box for one or the other of its options to apply the material to other like members.
Tip: You can double-click the material to re-open the No Paint Layout Edit window.
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------ General settings ------
Thickness: The thickness of this no paint layout (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units or gage ). The thickness of the plate is its dimension along its Z material axis , which projects from the flat plate's work plane per its " Thickness reference point . Editing a no paint layout and changing its " Material thickness " updates that material in the 3D model when you press " OK ."
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Changes made to thickness update the model. |
To enter gage material: Type in the ' gage number' followed by ' ga '. The gage you enter is rewritten using the primary dimension " Units " when you Tab out of the field (example: using imperial units, ' .10ga ' becomes ' 1/8 ' when you Tab out of the field). Allowable gages are any whole number from 3 to 38 .
Thickness reference point: FS or Center or NS . Work points for the following three examples are all laid out at an elevation of 100 feet. Editing a no paint layout and changing its " Thickness reference point " will update that material in the 3D model when you press " OK ."
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| A section view of the same no paint layout, but with different depth reference points. The view looks perpendicular to the plan view (at 100 ft) in which the area was added. |
Select ' Center ' if you want the thickness of the no paint layout centered at the elevation of its work points.
' FS ' aligns the no paint layout so that its far side surface includes its work points. The far side is the face that is away from you when you are in the view in which the layout was added, assuming the area was not subsequently rotated. You might select this setting, for example, when your work plane is the Surface of a material, you have located work points on that surface to add this area, and you want this area's far side to be flush to that surface.
Choose ' NS ' if you added the no paint layout in a plan view and want its near side to be at the elevation of the area's work points. The near side is the face of the area that faces you when you are in the view in which it was added, assuming the area was not subsequently rotated.
Note: This option does not change the no paint layout's reference elevation. It only changes the positioning of the area with respect to that reference elevation. You can change a no paint layout's " Reference elevation " using the General Information window.
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If this box is checked (
If the box is not checked (
), the no paint layout is not dimensioned.
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If the box is not checked (
NOTE: The no paint layout's " Thickness " is never hatched -- only the opposing faces described by the material's " Width " and " Length ."
Hatch pattern: A .pat file. For example, SDS2CHECKPLATE or SDS2CONC or SDS2DEFAULT or SDS2GRATE or SDS2INSULATION or SDS2STEEL , which are some of the patterns that are installed into the hatches folder of data directory used by your current version of this program. This applies when " Fill with pattern " is checked. Choosing a different " Hatch folder " changes the list of patterns to those contained in that folder.
Hatch folder: A directory (file folder) from which the " Hatch pattern " is chosen. If the folder contains .pat files, their names are used to populate the " Hatch pattern " list.
is a button that lets you select any folder that is accessible from your computer.
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Entering text to the " No Paint Text " field instructs member detailing with templates to add a label containing that text and a leader when the member is auto detailed. If this field is left empty, neither text nor leader is generated.
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To close the No Paint Layout window :
" General Information " opens the General Information window, which provides additional information and settings that pertain to the material of the no paint layout.
Tip: You can use the General Information window to change the material's " X ," " Y ," or " Z " global coordinates (and thus reposition the material within the 3D model).
Also: A " Properties " button at the bottom of the General Information window lets you Edit Properties for this material.
"OK" (or the Enter key) closes the No Paint Edit window and applies the settings on it to the material(s).
Defaults: Even if you did not make any changes on this window, pressing " OK " causes certain " General settings " to be applied as the defaults for the no paint layout that is added next in your current session of Modeling .
If you opened this window to edit a single no paint layout ( single-edit ), the Change All Options & Warning List opens after you press the " OK " button. You can use that window to cancel your changes or, if other materials with the same submaterial piecemark exist, apply your changes to those other materials. Also, if an Exact Fit or related cutting/bending/fit operation has been done on this no paint layout (one no paint layout), pressing " OK " gets you the option to undo that operation.
"Cancel" (or the Esc key or the
button) closes this window without saving any changes that you might have made to it.
Tip: When you open this window to review information only -- and you do not want to set the defaults for the next-added no paint layout -- the best way to close this window is to press " Cancel. "
"Reset" undoes all changes made to this window since you first opened it. The window remains open.
Note: The settings shown on this window when it first opens for the adding of a no paint layout are the settings of the last-added or last-edited no paint layout (unless you exit Modeling in the meantime).
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