Customizes the content and format of the isometric drawing for the active isometric drawing style. The tool provides a visual way to lay out your isometrics by enabling you to see where you are placing information on the drawing. You begin by loading a new backing sheet, and then positioning the required data on it.
Many of the settings that you can configure using Isogen Configuration can be time-consuming. The Drawing Setup Tool enables you to edit drawing style properties in a graphic view, which can often be much easier. You can graphically define the position of the drawing area on the backing sheet and specify which user-defined reports, if any, are output on the drawing. You can also use the tool to define the attributes that display on the drawing frame. The options that you define in the tool can then be saved to the current isometric drawing style so that they are applied to the generated drawings.
The Drawing Setup Tool consists of a series of tabbed pages, each of which contains a set of options and properties that are specific to a particular aspect of the drawing setup, and a horizontal and vertical toolbar. The three pages listed below appear by default for each isometric drawing style. If a user-defined Material List, Weld List, or Cut List report is currently associated with the selected isometric drawing style, or if you choose to add one of those reports during the Drawing Setup Tool process, a tabbed page specific to that report type is automatically displayed so that you can configure those settings as well.
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Basic Setup enables you to choose a new backing sheet. You must match the drawing output size to this backing sheet. You can also choose which of the three standard user-defined lists to display on the drawing: Material list, Weld list, or Cut list.
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Drawing Areas provides options for defining the layout of the backing sheet. You can align the drawing port with the area allocated on the backing sheet and position any required lists.
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Attributes enables you to place individual pieces of data onto the backing sheet. This includes the usual title block information, such as specifications, temperatures, pressures, testing, or location information.
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Vertical Toolbar: |
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Zoom In/Out increases or decreases the display size of the drawing template. You can zoom in to get a closer view of an area or zoom out to view more of the drawing template at a reduced size. Click the left mouse button and drag the pointer upward in the window to increase the view of an object as though you were moving closer to it. Drag the pointer downward in the window to reduce the view as though you are moving further away from the object. |
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Zoom Window increases the view magnification of an area in the drawing template that you define by creating a fence. |
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Zoom to Fit displays the entire contents of the drawing template in the window. |
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Pan repositions the drawing template in the display window so that you can view another section of the template without changing the view magnification. |
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Add / Remove Attributes opens the Add/Remove Attributes dialog box. This dialog box allows you to specify the attributes that are available in the Attribute list in the Attributes Grid window. The command is available only when the Attributes page is active. |
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Add Column inserts a column to the selected report so that an additional attribute can be plotted in the report. This command is available only when the Material List, Weld List, or Cut List page is active. |
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Delete Column removes the selected column of component attribute data from the plotted report. This command is available only when you select a Column category label on the Material List, Weld List, or Cut List page. |
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Zoom to List Attributes zooms in on the selected attribute. Each time you click Zoom to List Attributes |
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Horizontal Toolbar: |
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Previous Page returns to the previous page of the tool. |
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Next Page proceeds to the next page of the tool. |
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Help opens the on-line documentation delivered with the software and displays information about the tool. |
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OK saves the options and parameters that you have defined. |
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Cancel undoes the options and parameters that you have defined. |
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Exit closes the tool. If you have not saved your changes, the software prompts you to do so. |
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The four graphic control commands on the vertical toolbar (Zoom In/Out
, Zoom Window 
, Zoom to Fit 
, and Pan 
) can be used any time while running the tool. The availability of the remaining vertical
toolbar commands is determined by the active page.
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You can navigate back and forth sequentially through the pages using Previous Page
and Next Page 
on the horizontal toolbar. Alternatively, click the tab to go directly to a specific
page.
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