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.

Create a Template Sheet for a Detail Sheet

When the detail sheets have been generated, the program will save the detail sheets in the building folder. The detail sheets are named so that a sequential number is added at the end of the name of the template sheet used, for example Sheet1.vxp, Sheet2.vxp, etc. When the same template sheet is used the next time to generate sheets, the numbering will continue from the next available number.

Use detail names

When this feature 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

When this feature is selected, detail sheet that were previously generated using the same sheet template are removed from the building folder. The numbering of new detail sheets starts from the beginning.

Open sheets for editing

When this feature is selected, drawing sheets open for editing once details have been collected.

Add sheets to output queue

When this feature is selected, all drawing sheets will be printed one after another. When you select this feature, the Print Queue dialog box will be displayed, in which you can define the output settings. Select the printer from the list. Select the sheet size using the Properties function. Define the layers from which the drawing elements will 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 File > Print > Execute Print Queue.

Generate from: Active drawing

When Active drawing is selected, you can collect the details from the active drawing only. Select the detail types by marking the desired check boxes:

• Symbol details
• Component details
• Drawing details
• Reference drawing details

Generate from: Active building

When Active building is selected, you can collect details from all drawings of the active building. Select the detail types by marking the desired check boxes:

• Symbol details
• Component details
• Drawing details
• Detail book details
• Details from reference drawings

Generate from: Detail book

When Detail book is selected, you can select from the list field the detail books 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 in the list 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 building is open. Select the detail archive from the list whose details will be collected as detail sheets. The detail sheets are saved in the ../user/sheets folder.

Add. Detail Collect Path

Select the directory group from the list from which details will be collected in addition to the building or detail book. 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: This feature is available, when the BDSXX keyword group contains the keyword detail_collect_mode = 1, and when

• you are collecting details and generating detail sheets from the active building (the radiobutton Active building is selected)
• or you are solving options.

The directory groups are defined in the BDSXX keyword group using the keywords detail_collect_path. The keyword defines a directory or directories where the drawings from which the details are collected are located. For example:

detail_collect_path= PATH(1) directory_path

detail_collect_path= PATH(2) directory_path

detail_collect_path= NEXTPATH(1) directory_path

detail_collect_path= NEXTPATH(2) directory_path

PATH(1), PATH(2), NEXTPATH(1) and NEXTPATH(2) are names of directories. Name the directories so that the directories belonging to the same group have the same prefix (PATH). The number inside parentheses makes the name unique.