The following commands are available when you are using SmartSketch Drawing Editor to edit a drawing created and managed through the Drawings and Reports task.
Specifies properties for the current sheet and document of the open 3D drawing.
Creates a new drawing view in the drawing area.
Creates a new drawing region in the drawing area so that drawing views can be managed.
Creates a new snapshot drawing view in the drawing area.
Associate Objects to View Command
Allows you to interactively select a volume for the associated views. If the view is a key plan or report view, you specify an associated drawing view.
Remove Associated Inputs Command
Allows you to remove the associated volumes, filters, views, and other inputs from the selected view.
Allows you to add a report "view" in the drawing. The report view becomes an embedded report based on the contents of a drawing view.
Allows you to place labels manually.
Groups existing labels so that you can move them as a unit.
Allows you to move back and forth between the SmartSketch Drawing Editor application window and the 3D task window.
Enables you to edit or draw new objects at a scale that is different from the drawing scale for the active sheet.
Associates a single border or family of borders to the current layout template.
Hides or displays objects in the drawing view.
Copies an orthographic drawing view and places the copy on the same sheet.
Moves one or more views from a composed drawing document to another composed drawing document.
Highlights labels, dimensions, and customized graphics based on the options that you select.
Permanently clears all manual edits made to labels and dimensions in the selected views.
Associate Graphics to Graphic View Command
Associates and disassociates objects to graphic views.
Right-click menu for selected views
Updates the contents for the selected view - drawing, report, key plan, snapshot, and detail/section views.
Shows a preview of the drawing document based on the current layout.
Places a two-dimensional view for orthographic drawings.
Embeds a report in a drawing view on a volume or snapshot drawing.
Places a key plan on a volume drawing template.
Place Drawing Property Label Command (Place Border Label)
Positions drawing property labels in the title block of a template when you are editing a 3D drawing border template.
Places a drawing area. You use this command to create a drawing area on a 3D drawing border template that has been imported from other software, such as MicroStation DGN or AutoCAD DWG. See the Drawings and Reports Help.
The Drawings View Explorer provides access to views and their attributes for the currently displayed drawing or template.
You can use the Dimension toolbar to place dimensions on your 3D drawings.
You can also specify dimensioning for paper space objects (at the proper scale) when they are drawn on top of drawing view objects. See Dimension paper space objects for 3D drawings.
Cutting Planes, Detail Envelopes, and Section/Detail Views
The following commands allow you to create and edit cutting planes, detail envelopes, and section and detail views in 3D drawings.
Creates a detail view for an existing drawing view. Detail views are more than enlargements of the main drawing view. They often contain additional graphical information that is not visible in the main drawing view, such as weld or chalk information.
Place Cutting Plane/Section View Command
Creates a cutting plane on a drawing view. The cutting plane is a marker that indicates where to slice a group of objects and from which direction to look at that slice.
Creates both a section view and a detail view based on the selected cutting plane or detail envelope. A detail view is extracted from a main drawing view or another detail view. You can rotate detail views in 2D space, but they remain in the same orientation as the main drawing view. Section views are extracted from main drawing views, detail views, or other section views. Section views are similar to detail views, except that they can display information in an orientation that is different from that of the originating view.
Converting Excel Spreadsheet Reports to Native Text Boxes
The SP3DConvertExcelEmbedded.dll is a delivered custom command that allows you to convert an Excel spreadsheet report to the native text box format for use in 3D Drawings. See Convert Excel Spreadsheet Reports to Native Text Box Format Custom Command.
Saving Drawings in MicroStation and AutoCAD Format
You can use the Save As command to assign dimension units and export the drawings to MicroStation or AutoCAD format. See Save As MicroStation or AutoCAD format.