Change from System to User ( Modeling & Drawing Editor )

Tool summary :

• Opens a list of members with system piecemarks. Select from that list those members that you want to be user piecemarks.
• Changing system piecemarks to user piecemarks stops the Assigning Piecemarks phase of Process and Create Solids from changing those piecemarks or assigning those piecemarks to other members. See this example .
• You cannot change a system piecemark that has been frozen to a user piecemark.
• See the step-by-step instructions (this page)

Also see :

• Changing system piecemarks to user (topic on SDS2 Piecemarking page)
• Combine/Break Apart Piecemarks (lets you rename piecemarks)
• Remove Piecemarks (so that SDS2 piecemarking can reassign the members new piecemarks)
• Change User Piecemarks to System (system piecemarks are automatically named)
• Edit Member (a way to change system piecemarks to user)
• Change Marks (change piecemarks without changing to user)
• Detail Sheet Autoloading (change piecemarks without changing to user)
• Piecemarking in SDS2 (topic)

   Step-by-step instructions :

1 . To invoke Change System Piecemarks to User :

▸ Click the Change System Piecemarks to User icon, which is pictured above. The icon can be taken from the group named ' Edit -- Edit Piecemarks ' ( Modeling ) or ' Edit -- Edit Piecemarks ' ( Drawing Editor ) and placed on the ribbon.

▸ Change System Piecemarks to User can also be configured to be invoked using a keyboard shortcut , the context menu , or a mode . For the lightning interface, this configuration is done using Customize Interface .

2 . A selection dialog opens. On it is a list of all system piecemarks which have been assigned to members in the 3D model. The dialog does not tell you how many members have been assigned a particular piecemark.

B_1  B_2  B_3  B_4 B_5 B_6	" Hide ... " and " Show All " can be used to adjust which classes of members are shown on the selection list. By default, members with frozen piecemarks are not shown.
Tip: The " Print " button outputs a list of all system piecemarks, including frozen piecemarks that are system piecemarks.

2a : Select the piecemark(s) that you want to change from system to user piecemarks, then press the " OK " button.

3 . The piecemark(s) you selected in the previous step are now user piecemarks .

Note: When members next undergo the Assigning Piecemarks phase of Process and Create Solids , these piecemarks will not be broken apart or combined with other piecemarks.