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Intergraph Smart 3D Isogen Isometric Drawings

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13.0(2016)
  1. Right-click an Isogen Isometric Drawing component or package in the Management Console or Drawing Console, and then select Edit Options.

    Isogen Configuration opens.

  2. On the Home screen, select Drawing Creation in the Smart 3D category pane.

    The software switches to the Configuration View and displays the Drawing Creation option groups in the Options panel.

  3. Expand Overview.

  4. Select the Use User-Defined Start Point check box.

  5. Click Save to update the isometric style file with the new property settings.

    You must have write permission to the reference data to save changes to an isometric style.

  • Use User-Defined Start Point controls whether the software uses Isometric Start Point control points to establish the start point of the pipeline model. For information about creating this type of control point, see Set a start point for isometric drawing extraction in the Common Help.

  • Selecting Use User Defined Start Point triggers the software to perform the following validation scenarios during isometric extraction. Each scenario results in an information message being written to the Smart 3D drawing log file.

    • If no Isometric Start Point control points are found in the pipeline, the software uses the current Start Point setting (Isogen or Automatic). If the Start Point setting is not defined, the software uses the Isogen mechanism by default.

    • If multiple Isometric Start Point control points are found in the pipeline, the software uses the first control point that it finds.

    • If an Isometric Start Point control point is found, but its position is invalid (that is, the control point does not fall on a valid end point of the pipeline), the software determines the start point based on the flow direction in the pipeline model. For more information, see Start Point.