General
Templates for drafting sheets can be created. This automates many of the view creation steps thereby considerably shortening the sheet creation time. These templates can also be applied to the automatic drawings of external applications such as QuickElectrode (a Cimatron application), without having to enter the Drafting environment.
There are two kinds of templates:
as view scale (exactly as sized in the view)
best fit (sized to fit the bounding box)
The following data can be defined for each template:
Sheet data (from the tree)
Sheet name.
Sheet standard.
Sheet view attributes.
Sheet Frame name.
View names.
View attributes (for each view).
Frame (with symbolic text).
Tables (with symbolic text).
Text without leader (with symbolic text). If the text contains a leader the leader will not be saved.
Embedded Pictures
View parameters.
Position
Projection
Scale
Rotation
Model name (to distinguish between views with different models).
View boundary box. (only for views with sketches under the view).
The boundary box of the sketches under the view (for each view – for the best fit option).
Alignment constraints between views and text
Attributes of the drafting entities (visibility, pen, color, style).
Special parameters relating to how to save and load the template and how to implement the template data (will be defined later in the document).
All the data is saved in the file system; opening the file will supply all the necessary data in order to create a sheet with these features and parameters.
The infrastructure supports template creation using the drafting interaction or automatic creation without interaction (after supplying the necessary inputs – for Electrodes and MoldDesign).
Creating
Implementing templates involves two main stages: