Generate Detail Sheets
Select the details of which you want to create detail sheets in the dialog box.
Dialog Box Options
- Template sheet
- Select the template sheet to be used from the list. One sample sheet is included with the software. You can create your own template sheets and save them in the ../custom/detbook/sheets folder.
- Use detail names
- When this checkbox is selected, the drawing sheet files are named according to the detail labels. This feature is available, when each detail is collected to a separate drawing sheet.
- Overwrite existing sheets and lists
- You can delete detail sheets that have been previously generated using the same template sheet from the project directory by selecting the Overwrite existing sheets and lists check box. The numbering of new detail sheets starts from the beginning.
- Open sheets for editing
- When the check box is selected, the drawing sheets will be opened for editing after collecting the details.
- Add sheets to output queue
- When the check box is selected, all drawing sheets will be printed one after another. When you select the check box, the Output queue dialog box will be displayed, in which you can define the output settings. You can select the printer from the appropriate list. Use the Properties function to select the sheet size. Define the drawing layers whose elements are to be printed. All the drawings will be printed with the same layer selection. Select the layers to be printed using the Layers to print function in the dialog box.
- Output queue
- Type the output queue name in the Output queue field. The queue will be saved in the ../user/spool folder. After collecting the details, you can print the queue by selecting > Print Execute Print Queue.
- Generate from: Active drawing
- By selecting the Active drawing radio button, you can collect the details from the active drawing only. You can select the detail types by selecting the appropriate check boxes:
- Generate from: Active project
- By selecting the Active project radio button, you can collect details from all drawings of the active project. You can select the detail types by selecting the appropriate check boxes:
- Generate from: Detail book
- By selecting the Detail book radio button, you can select the detail books in the field whose details you wish to collect in the detail sheets. If there are books located under the selected detail book, their details will also be collected. When you select the detail book root directory from the field (backslash, \), detail sheets are generated from all detail books.
- Generate from: Detail archive
- The details are collected from the detail archive in the custom folder. The radio button is available when no project is open. From the list, select the detail archive containing the details you want to be collected into detail sheets. The detail sheets are saved in the ../user/sheets folder.
- Add. Detail Collect Path
- Select a directory group from which the details will be collected in addition to the project or a detail book from the list. You can utilize this feature when collecting details during option solving. You can use the groups to separate the detail collecting directories of master set and job specific document set.
Note
- If the same detail appears more than once in the drawing or in the project from which you are collecting the details, it will be added only once on the detail sheet. This is defined in the BDSXX keyword group with the keyword allow_multiple_details= 0.