Display AutoCAD Hook-Up Drawings with the Enhanced Report Utility - Intergraph Smart Instrumentation - Help

You must have AutoCAD open to be able to use this utility.

1. In the Smart Instrumentation > bin folder, double-click TranslateCADMacro.exe to start the utility that allows you to adjust the macros in an AutoCAD block to the Enhanced Report utility macro convention.

2. In the TranslateCADMacro utility, do the following:

   1. In the AutoCad blocks folder pane, browse to and select the required AutoCAD block folder.

   2. In the Target folder pane, select the folder in which you want to place the adjusted blocks.

   3. Select OK.

3. In Smart Instrumentation, set the preferences to view the tag and item lists in the generated hook-up drawing. For details, see Enhanced Reports > Hook-Ups > View (Preferences).

4. From the Domain Explorer, create a new hook-up item.

5. Right click the Hook-up item and select Properties.

6. On the Properties dialog, in the Drawing block file name and path data field, type the name and path of the required AutoCAD block and select OK.

7. Set the drawing generation method for this hook-up item to Enhanced Report. For details, see Apply a Drawing Generation Method to Hook-Ups.

8. Generate the hook-up drawing. For details, see Generate Enhanced Hook-Up Drawings.

The Enhanced Report utility recognizes only tag and hook-up item macros within an AutoCAD block.