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The following procedure steps you through creating a new Drawings by Rule component, setting up its definition, and saving it as a package for multi-purpose usage. The procedure below creates an example Hull Lines drawing component.

Before you create the Drawings by Rule component, you might want to create a custom rule set view style or modify an existing style to use with the Drawings by Rule component. See Define View Style Command (Tools Menu) in the Smart 3D Drawings and Reports Reference Data.

  1. Right-click any drawing folder under the main model node and select New > More to open the Add Component Dialog.

  2. On the Ship tab of the Add Component Dialog, select Drawings by Rule to Add a Drawings by Rule component. Click OK. The new Drawings by Rule component displays under the drawing folder. To change the name of the new component, right-click the component, and select Rename.

  3. Right-click the Drawing by Rule component and select Setup to define the views, reports, and queries used by the component. The Setup dialog displays with the General Tab (Setup Dialog - Drawings by Rule) displayed so you can add views and reports to the View Builder.

  4. On the General tab, click Add View Type to add a new view to the component. The View Definition Dialog displays so that you can define the view name, style, and other properties. The views are added to the View Builder hierarchy.

    For example, add a Hull Lines view, and define it to use the Hull Lines rule set view style.

    The Hull Lines View is added to the View Builder.

  5. After you create the views for the component, you can add reports to the views. Select a view, and click Add Report . Select a report from those shown in the Select Template Dialog, and click OK to add the report to the view.

  6. You can also add some reports as embedded standalone reports that are not associated with a view. Select View Builder and click Add Report . Select a standalone report from those shown in the Select Template Dialog and click OK to add the report to the View Builder.

    SM3D DrwOrtho ViewBuilder Standalone Reports CONCEPT

  7. To change the properties for a report or a view, select the item in the View Builder hierarchy and click Properties .

  8. When you are finished defining views and reports, go to the Queries Tab (Setup Dialog - Drawings by Rule) to define the queries for the component. On the Queries tab, select a view type from the Select View Type drop-down list. The view types are defined on the General tab of the Setup dialog. Select Default in this drop-down list to specify a default filter definition to use for all view types, or select individual view types and define filters for each type.

  9. Change or modify the filter used for the selected view type. For example, select the Hull Lines View, and then select Create New Filter in the Filter drop-down list to create a new filter definition. Alternatively, select More in the drop-down list to select from a list of existing filters. Click Properties to modify the properties of the currently selected filter. The example below shows that a Coordinate System Filter is used.

  10. Set the collation rule using the Select Collation Rule drop-down list. The default rule is CollateToMany, which means that the drawings will have one part per view.

  11. Click Apply Filter to run the filter definition. The rest of the dialog updates with additional definition information.

  12. You can further define the view definition by changing the query or values associated with each view generated by the filter on the Queries Tab (Setup Dialog - Drawings by Rule).

  13. After you have defined all of the views, reports, and queries for the Drawings by Rule component on the Setup dialog, click OK to save the changes.

  14. Specify the sheet and document templates to use when creating the drawings. Right-click the Drawings by Rule component and select Edit Template (Drawings by Rule). SmartSketch Drawing Editor opens with the Edit Sheet Properties dialog displayed (Edit Sheet command). Use this command to define the properties for the sheet and the document associated to the Drawings by Rule component.

  15. Use the Edit Sheet Properties Command and Place Region Command to set up the layout for the drawing area in the template. See the SmartSketch Drawing Editor Help.

    Regions are only needed if you want views to be placed on the sheet automatically when the drawing is updated. Regions are not required. Without regions, you can drag views onto the sheet and place them as needed for multi-sheet drawing documents.

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  16. Save any changes you make to the template, and exit SmartSketch Drawing Editor.

  17. If you are an administrator with write permissions to the SharedContent folder, you can save the current Drawings by Rule component definition into the model as a package so that it displays in the Add Component Dialog and can be reused by others. Right-click the component and select Save Package.

  18. You can also create the drawings for the Drawings by Rule component by right-clicking the component and selecting Create Drawings. This creates the drawings documents and displays them in the Detail View.

If you make changes to the model that impact the drawing content, the drawings will be out-of-date and you will need to refresh or update them to update the drawing content. See Updating Documents.