Drawings Options
You can set options for all drawings.
To set options for drawings:
Click ,
and select Drawings. Choose from the
following options, then click OK.
| Reset | Restores factory defaults for all system options or only for options on this page. |
Options
| Eliminate duplicate model dimensions on insert. | Duplicate dimensions are not inserted into drawings when model dimensions are inserted (default). This option sets and overrides the Eliminate duplicates default in the Model Items PropertyManager. |
| Eliminate duplicate model notes on insert. | Duplicate notes are not inserted into drawings when model notes are inserted (default). |
| Mark all part/assembly dimension for import into drawings by default. | Sets any dimension you insert
in a model as Mark For
Drawing. The dimensions are included when
inserting model dimensions into drawings. See Model Items. |
| Automatically scale new drawing views. | Standard 3 Views are scaled
to fit the drawing sheet, regardless of the paper size selected.
This setting can create odd scale values. |
| Enable symbol when adding new revision. | Allows you to click in the graphics area to place revision symbols when you add a revision to a revision table. |
| Display new detail circles as circles. | New profiles for detail views
appear as circles. When cleared, the sketched profiles
appear. |
| Select hidden entities. | You can select hidden
(removed) tangent edges and edges that you have hidden manually
when you pass the pointer over hidden edges. |
| Disable note/dimension inference. | If cleared, when you place a
note or dimension, a line appears to indicate horizontal or
vertical alignment with other notes or dimensions. Cleared Selected |
| Disable note merging when dragging. | Disables the merging of two notes or a note and a dimension when dragged to one another. |
| Show reference geometry names in drawings. | When reference geometry
entities are imported into a drawing, their names appear. |
| Automatically hide components on view creation. | Any components of an assembly not visible in a new drawing view are hidden and listed on the Hide/Show Components tab of the Drawing View Properties dialog box. The components are present, and all component information is loaded. The component names are transparent in the FeatureManager design tree. See Drawing View Properties. You can show the hidden components at any time. See Hide/Show Components. This bottom view of an assembly shows battery components that are fully enclosed. When you select Automatically hide components on view creation, the batteries are hidden. When cleared, the batteries are shown with dotted lines. Selected Cleared |
| Display sketch arc centerpoints. | Sketch arc centerpoints are
displayed for arcs and circles in drawings. |
| Display sketch entity points. | The endpoints of sketch
entities are displayed as filled circles in drawings sheets and
drawing sheet formats, but not in drawings views. |
| Display sketch hatch behind geometry. | If selected, the model's
geometry displays over the hatch. Selected Cleared |
| Display sketch pictures on sheet behind geometry | Displays sketch pictures as
background images for drawing views. Sketch picture in background Sketch picture not in background |
| Print break lines in break view. | For break views, break lines that extend past the edge of a part are printed. |
| Align breaks with parent view for projected view | Aligns the breaks in the
projected view with the breaks in the parent view. |
| Automatically populate View Palette with views. | Displays the drawing view in the View Palette when you click Make Drawing from Part/Assy. When cleared, the Model View PropertyManager appears for you to insert drawing views. |
| Show sheet format dialog on add new sheet. | Displays the Sheet Format dialog when you add a new drawing sheet. See Sheet Format. |
| Reduce spacing when dimensions are deleted or edited (add or change tolerance, text, etc.). | Automatically re the space among the remaining dimensions if you delete a dimension or remove text from a dimension. |
| Reuse view letters from deleted auxiliary, detail, and section views. | Reuses letters from deleted views (auxiliary, detail, section) in the drawing. |
| Enable paragraph auto numbering | Turns on paragraph numbering mode when entering a note that begins with 1. and a space (numeral one followed by a period followed by a space). |
| Disallow creation of mirror views | Disables the creation of mirror views. |
| Override quantity column name in bill of materials. | Uses the name you enter in Name to use for the quantity in a BOM. |
| Detail view scaling. | Specifies the scaling for
detail views. The scale is relative to the scale of the drawing
view from which the detail view is generated. If the source view
scale is 2:1 and the detail view scale is 2X, the resulting
detail view scale is 4X. |
| Custom property used as Revision. | Specifies a property for revision tables that is stored as the revision value on the Custom tab of the Properties dialog box. The default is Revision. |
| Keyboard movement increment. | Specifies the unit value of movement when you use the arrow keys to move (nudge) drawing views, annotations, or dimensions. |