Drawing Settings

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Drawing Settings define settings for overall drawing. These settings allow user access to common properties for drawing.

 

 

In hsCADView, Drawing Settings consists of the following data:

Field Name

Data Type

Description

Active Layout

Multiple option combo box.

Allows user to select from available Layout list and make it active.

Display Lineweight

Boolean

When checked(true) draws all lines with actual lineweights specified as lineweight properties, otherwise it shows all lines with default lineweight.

Background Color

Color

Background color for Layouts.

Save preview

Boolean

If checked(true) saves the preview along with drawing file. Saving preview allows user to see snap shot of file before actually opening it.

Units

Multiple option combo box.

Allows user to select from available units and make it default unit for this drawing. All measurements are derived from drawing's unit.

Active Unit Family

Multiple option combo box.

Allows user to select from available unit families and make it active unit family for this drawing. When using unit conversion feature for all Scientific data, it uses active unit family to show next conversion.

Filename

File Selection

Filename to save the current drawing file.

Title

Text

Title name for this drawing

Subject

Text

Subject for this drawing

Comments

Text

Any comments or description for this drawing

Author

Text

Name of author for this drawing

Revision Number

Text

Revision number for this drawing

Saved Via

Text

Name of application that last saved this drawing

 

 

In hsCADView the above properties are shown in the Drawing Property Tree.

 

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