Smart 3D delivers several specialized components that enable you to access commands for configuring templates and generating drawings and reports.The various types of components can be divided into two groups: application components and folder components. Application components correspond to specific types of drawings, such as Isogen isometric drawings and composed drawings. You use folder components to organize your drawings and reports. You can add folders to the root and to other folders. Each component has a different icon and right-click menu.
Your administrator can assign permissions to the different components using commands in the Project Management task. For example, the administrator can set permissions so that only the piping designers have write permissions on Isogen Isometric Drawings. See the Project Management Help.
Drawings by Query Manager
Creates a Drawings by Query Manager in the Console. The Drawings by Query Manager is used in conjunction with the Isogen Isometric Drawing by Query component to complete the query for objects in the model. The Drawings by Query Manager provides the filter that specifies the "where" side of the query. It tells the query "where" to look for the objects specified by the component "what" filter.
Isogen Isometric Drawings by Query
Creates an Isogen Isometric Drawings by Query component in the Console. You create an isometric drawing by associating an Isogen Isometric Drawing by Query component to a Query Manager. The Isogen Isometric Drawing by Query component specifies the "what" portion of the query, while the Query Manager specifies the "where."
Folder
Creates an empty folder in the Console.
Search folder
Creates a search folder in the Console. Search folders allow you to search for documents based on common properties such as out-of-date status, approval, or documents that have been published to a certain contract in integrated environment.
Drawing document
Represents an isometric drawing. A status icon is always superimposed over this icon.
indicates that the document is being updated or published. A document also displays
this icon if an error occurred and forced the machine to end the update process before
it completed. Right-click the drawing document, and select the View Log Command for more information, or update the document again.
indicates that the document is out-of-date. This document has been altered in SmartSketch Drawing Editor or the drawing properties have been changed. A document is not marked out-of-date
if the 3D model has been changed. For example, changing the view style of a drawing
view causes the document to be out-of-date, while moving a pump in the 3D model does
not affect the drawing status (unless a Refresh is performed).
indicates that the document is up-to-date. This document is an accurate representation
of the 3D model based on the last update performed. If an object in the 3D model that
is included in the drawing view has been moved inside the 3D environment, the document
is still up-to-date unless Refresh is performed. A change must be made to the drawing properties or inside the drawing
in order for it to be marked out-of-date without a Refresh.
indicates that an error has occurred during the update process. Right-click the drawing,
and select the View Log Command for more information.
indicates that there are no graphic objects in the model associated with this drawing
document. For example, the drawing is a piping isometric drawing document created
from a Pipeline System that has no piping parts associated with it.
Information about the icons for the other components delivered with the software
is available in the Orthographic Drawings Help.