Graphic reports provide a quick way to view only those items in a drawing that you want to see. You can save the definitions to create custom graphic reports that you can reuse. Because you can run graphic reports only on a specific drawing or design file, you must select the drawing or design file before you run the report.
You can run a graphic report in several ways:
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You can right-click a document, click Files > Run Graphic Report, and select the graphic report you want to run.
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You can right-click a graphic report definition, click Run Graphic Report, and then select the document revision on which you want to run the report.
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You can run a graphic report by viewing a drawing or model with the View and Markup command, right-clicking a blank area of the drawing, and clicking Files > Run Graphic Report.
If you selected a graphic report before clicking the Run Graphic Report command, this dialog box allows you to choose a drawing or model on which to run the selected graphic report definition. If you selected a drawing or model before clicking the Run Graphic Report command, this dialog box allows you to choose one or more graphic report definitions to apply to that model or drawing.
Criteria that appear in this table are determined by the selection you made before running the Run Graphic Report command.
Selecting a drawing or model on which to run the selected graphic report
Name of Item - Displays the name of the drawing or model.
Description - Displays the description of the drawing or model.
Class - Specifies the class of each drawing or model.
Creation Date - Indicates the date on which the drawing or model was created.
Created By - Indicates who created the model or drawing.
Last Updated Date - Indicates the date on which the drawing or model was last updated.
Selecting one or more graphic reports to run against the selected model or drawing
Name of Item - Provides the name of defined graphic reports that are available to use. You may choose one or more of these reports by selecting them from this table.
If only one report is defined and available, this dialog box does not appear; the
report is used automatically.
Classification - Specifies the classification of each defined graphic report.
Descriptions - Provides a brief description of each graphic report as provided when it was created.
All date and time settings are stored in the database in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT),
but displayed in local time, as determined by the regional settings on the local computer.
The Graphic Results window is available when you view graphic reports. This window lists all the graphic report definitions as well as their resulting items that are applied to a view.
You can apply multiple graphic report definitions to a drawing or a model at one time, once the drawing or model is displayed. When you do so, those definitions are listed in this window in the order in which they were applied. If an item in the view matches more than one definition, the symbology of the last matching definition is used in the display.
Selected definitions are applied to the display. If you clear the selection, the results of that definition are removed from the display.
Beneath each definition is a list of each item in the drawing that matches the criteria in that definition. When the name of the item is selected, the item is selected in the display and the symbology of the item is changed accordingly. When selection is cleared, the symbology of the item reverts to the symbology of the drawing or to the last report that included the item.
If the Properties window is displayed, selecting an item in this window displays the properties of that item there. Right-clicking on a report definition item displays a menu with two commands -- Update Symbology and Remove. The Remove command removes the report from the window. Clearing the report selection has the same effect on the display as using the Remove command.
The Update symbology command allows you to modify the symbology definition for a report on-the-fly for the currently displayed report only. It does not apply the changes back to the report definition. You may want to use this command if you find that the defined symbology is not different enough from the drawing items to allow you to differentiate easily between matching and non-matching items or if you want to differentiate between multiple reports applied to the drawing.
You can perform tasks in this window using the toolbar along the top of this window. These commands are described below.
Collapse All - Closes all the hierarchical items in the tree.
Expand All - Opens all the hierarchical items in the tree.
Check All - Selects the all the graphic report definitions and matching items in the tree.
Uncheck All - Clears all the selected items in the tree.
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