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Places a drawing area for drawing border templates. This command is available when you are editing a drawing border template for which a drawing area is not defined. If a drawing area already exists, an error messages displays. You can delete the existing drawing area and place a new one.

A drawing area is a property of the border template that defines the "useful" area of a drawing sheet. During the creation of a new composed drawing, the layout template containing the managed views fits inside the drawing area of the border template.

By defining a drawing area in each border template, a single layout template can be fit into any size border. The proportion of the drawing area devoted to a particular region in the layout does not change when the border template changes. For example, if you apply a region to the bottom half of a layout (and the layout is merged into a border template), the region always consumes the bottom half of the drawing, regardless of how it is stretched or resized by different border templates.

After you click Place Drawing Area , click and drag to place the drawing area.

Save the border template file and exit SmartSketch Drawing Editor. You can use the border file to create new 3D composed drawings. See the Drawings Help or the Common Help.

  • Editing a border template on the Symbols share does not affect an existing drawing because the border template associated to a drawing is stored in the database. To change the border template used by an existing drawing, you must replace the stored border template using the Switch Border command.

  • If no drawing area exists in the border template used to create a composed drawing, one is computed based on the white space in the border template. This computed drawing area is not saved with the border template.

  • The existence of a drawing area in the border template associated to a drawing has an impact on the behavior of the Switch Border command.