Update and Open a Drawing Sheet
When you open a drawing sheet with views derived from drawing generation models on it, the generation model and the views must be updated in following cases:
- When the drawing sheet is opened for the first time. The drawing generation model and the views have not been updated yet.
- You have modified and saved the building model. The changes must be updated in the drawing generation model and the views.
- When you have edited the drawing generation model. The changes must be updated in the views.
- When you have edited the drawing settings of the views. The changes must be updated in the views.
Note: Save the building model before updating the drawing sheet. Otherwise, the changes are not updated to the generation models.
Update a generation model and/or the views, and open a drawing sheet as follows:
- Do one of the following:
- Select Output | Drawings |
Drawing Sheets.
- Select the function in the buildings's document browser:
- Move the cursor on the title Architectural documents / Sheets.
- Right-click to open the context-sensitive menu.
- Select Update Drawing Sheets.
- Select updating of a single drawing sheet in the building's document browser:
- Open the Architectural documents/Sheets branch in the project document browser.
- Move the cursor over the sheet name.
- Right-click to open the context-sensitive menu.
- Select Open and Update.
The View Tasks dialog box is opened.
- Select Output | Drawings |
- Select the check boxes Update models and Update views. If necessary, select the view draw settings and the drawing sheet to be opened in the View Tasks dialog box.
- Click the Open button.
You can save the open drawing sheet with a new name by selecting >
Save As. Save the sheet as a Vertex 2D drawing in the building’s View_Sheets folder. You can later open the saved sheet either from the building's document browser or from the drawing sheet list in the View Tasks dialog box.
Note:
- Drawing sheets can be organized in the document browser by file name or description. The order-determining property is set in the system settings with the keyword sort_view_sheets_by_file_name. The default varies in different localization environments.
- sort_view_sheets_by_file_name = 0: The sheets are organized by the description.
- sort_view_sheets_by_file_name = 1: The sheets are organized by the file name.
- You can add a drawing on the drawing sheet by using the Add a Drawing to a Sheet function. You can move drawings on the sheet by using the Move a View on a Sheet function.
- You can add building height data to an elevation drawing by first opening the elevation view on the drawing sheet by using the function Open a View Drawing from a Sheet, and then adding the height data to the view with the function Add a Height Symbol.