Select a Detail

Select a detail you want to add to a floor plan drawing in the dialog box.

Dialog Box Options

Detail archive / Archive

Select the detail archive from the list. The detail archive can be located either in the building folder or the custom folder. Both folders may contain detail archives and details with the same name.

When the DesignStream interface add-on option is available to you, and you have logged into the DesignStream system, you can retrieve a detail from the DesignStream system. In this case, select DS as the detail archive.

Subset

You can filter the details on the Detail list on the basis of a property defined in the detail database. By default, the subsets are not in use, and the dialog box field is grey. You can select the subsets to be in use by defining the keyword detail_sort_field in the BDSXX keyword group. Type a name of a field in the detail database as the value of the keyword. For example:

detail_sort_field= SCALE

After you have defined the keyword, you can select a value of the property from the Subset list. The details of the detail archive are filtered to the Detail list according to this value. For example, if you use the definition detail_sort_field= SCALE, you can select a scale from the Subset list. The details in accordance with this scale can be selected from the Detail list.

Detail

Select the detail. The detail's label and description are displayed in the list. If a detail archive and detail with the same name are found from both the building folder and the custom folder, the details in the building folder will override the others, i.e., the detail to be added is selected from the detail archive in the building folder.

The detail drawing is displayed in the preview window.

Detail Preview Image

Use detail layer

When you select the check box, the detail will be added on the layer that was defined when creating the detail. Otherwise, the detail will be added on the layer in which it was drawn.

When the property is selected, you can later select the details added to a certain layer in the floor plan by using the Layer filtering property in the Selection Filter.

Lock an Object Type in the Selection Filter

Drawing

Add a detail drawing to the floor plan drawing.

Symbol

Add a detail as a symbol to the floor plan drawing. Select the symbol from the list. For example, the symbols included in the basic software delivery:

• SYM_CIRCLE - The detail label is displayed in the symbol.
• SYM_DISPLAYID - The detail's label and "display label" are displayed in the symbol.
• SYM_EDGE - The detail label is displayed in the symbol.

Symbols are details that have been saved in the Symbols detail archive. You can create symbols in the same way as details by using the Save a Drawing as a Detail function. When filling in the detail data, select Symbols as the detail archive.

When you add a detail as a symbol to the floor plan drawing, you can select the property Reference line for the symbol. Click the start point of the reference line and the location of the symbol. The drawing properties of the reference line are defined in the system settings. The name of the line is DETAIL.REFLINE.

Move a Reference Line Detail

Attach to component

Click a component (door, window or another building component) to which you wish to attach the detail. The detail will have no geometry in the floor plan drawing, but you can collect the details attached to components on a detail sheet when you select Details attached to components as the type of the details to be collected.

Collect Details And Generate Documents

Detail books

You can group details into detail books. See Edit Detail Books.