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Intergraph Smart 3D Orthographic Drawings

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The following procedure provides an example workflow for creating an Orthographic Drawing by Query to find volumes in the model. The software collects the volumes based on the filters specified and generates a drawing for each volume. The view style associated with the template you are using hides the volume and show the objects inside the volume.

This method of creating volume drawings is very similar to creating volume drawings using the Volume component in previous versions of the software. You use a template to specify how each volume is managed and placed. The advantage of using an Orthographic Drawing by Query component is that you do not have to place the volumes in the Space Management task as Drawing Volumes. You can use any type of Space Management volume to create the Orthographic Drawings by Query.

This procedure involves 3D tasks as well as the Drawings and Reports task.

  1. In the Space Management task, create volumes that contain the objects you want to include in your drawings. For example, you can use the Place Volumes by Grids Command to create volumes based on your grid system definition. See the Smart 3D Space Management Help.

  2. In any of the 3D tasks, use the Tools > Select by Filter command to create a what filter to look for the volume objects. For example, on the Select Filter Dialog, create a new model filter called What Filter for Grid Volumes. Select Object Type > Space Entities on the Select Filter Dialog.

  3. Select the Properties tab to define volume properties to simplify the query. For example, you could set the filter to look for the Name property with a specific value such as 0001Grid.

  4. Go to the Drawings and Reports task and Set up an Orthographic Drawing by Query component. When you specify the filter during setup of the component, select the what filter you create that looks for the volumes.

  5. Right-click the component and select Edit Template to place drawing views for your volumes.

    When you edit the template associated to an Orthographic Drawing by Query component, you can set the navigation rule assigned to each drawing view. The navigator rules for Orthographic Drawings by Query tell the software how to traverse elements to be included in the range for the drawing view objects. Right-click the component or package and select Edit Template to open the drawing template in the SmartSketch Drawing Editor. Select and right-click a drawing view to display the Drawing View Properties Dialog and set the navigator rule. See the SmartSketch Drawing Editor Help.

  6. Right-click the component and select the Save Package Command.

  7. Create a Query Manager to define the where side of the query, which determines where in the model to look for the volumes you created. See Set up a Drawings by Query Manager component.

  8. Right-click the Drawings by Query Manager, and select Run Query.

  9. Right-click the Drawings by Query Manager, and select Create Drawing(s) to generate the drawings based on the objects returned by the query and the Orthographic Drawing By Query package you specified. You can also navigate through the Management Console hierarchy and use the Create Drawing(s) command from the folder levels.

  10. Update the drawing documents to save the changes. See Updating Documents.

See Also

Orthographic Drawings by Query Common Tasks
Setup Command (Drawings by Query Manager Component Shortcut Menu)
Setup Command (Orthographic Drawing by Query Component)