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Sets the drawing view style and other properties for a selected drawing view in a steel order drawing.

Style

Specifies a view style, which includes rules for filters, updates, and graphics. The view style controls the output characteristics of the view on the generated drawing. The list displays the 10 most recently used view styles in the session. Click More... to display the Select View Style dialog.

(Marine mode only) To display only RulesetStyles in marine mode, you need to remove the marine and material handling productIDs from the KeyPlan.xml, Orthographic.xml, and Spatial.xml files as shown in the example below. The .xml files are located in the [Reference Data Folder]\SharedContent\Drawings\Catalog\MetaStyles folder.

Original

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Modified

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Name

Specifies a name for the drawing view.

Coordinate System Properties

Coordinate System

Specifies a coordinate system to include in the drawing.

Orientation Properties

Orientation Rule

Specifies the rules available for orientations for the current view type. The Orientation Rule drives the values for the Orientation View Direction and Orientation Up Direction properties. This property is only shown for rule set view styles.

Orientation View Direction

Indicates the elevation direction in which you want the drawing view to "look" at the drawing objects. This property is only shown for rule set view styles.

Orientation Up Direction

Indicates the x- and y-axis direction with which you want the drawing view to "look" at the drawing objects. This property is only shown for rule set view styles.

Scale Properties

Scale Family

Specifies a scale family for the drawing view, such as Metric, Imperial, or Manual Scale. When you select a scale family, the Scale property values update. Selecting Manual Scale shows all scales, metric or imperial.

User Selected Scale

Specifies a scale to use for the drawing view. The Scale values update depending on the selected Scale Family.

  • For Custom scale, the default is the document's unit of measure setting. For example, if you type values of 1 in to 1 ft, the values are converted to mm if that is the default unit of measure.

  • Do not use negative values when typing custom scale values.

Margin Properties

Margin Left/Margin Right/Margin Top/Margin Bottom

Defines the marginal distance for the drawing view. The margin is the distance surrounding the drawing view SmartFrame. This area is used for labels and dimensions that have been designed to incorporate margins in their search for clear space.

For example, you could have several drawing views, each with different margin settings:

Other General Properties

Description

Provides a description of the drawing view. This description is optional.

View Offset

Expands the view on the drawing sheet in all directions in order to prevent matchline distortion and grid plane clipping. The default offset value is 2 mm for composed views and 0 mm for ruleset views. The offset does not affect the size of the volume that is associated with the view.

  • View Offset is only available for views that are associated to a volume. Section and detail views do not have this property value.

  • Negative values are not permitted for this property.

  • In rule set views, if you change the view style before editing View Offset for the first time, View Offset displays the offset value as defined in the .xml template of the view style. Make sure that your View Offset value is correct before closing the Drawing View Properties Dialog.

  • View annotations, such as the ruler and view name, are automatically adjusted in relation to the View Offset value.

VHL Precision

Sets a parameter for Hidden Line removal processing to consider two lines as identical. This property setting has a direct impact on the visibility of the lines in the drawing. It improves drawing update performance, but it may reduce drawing quality. The VHL precision property is only available for composed drawing documents. The default value is 0.000001, with a range of 0.001 to 0.000001. The smaller the number, the more accurate the graphic elements are in the 2D view.

Geometry Validation

Sets a parameter for drawing completion and quality to improve drawing update performance. The Geometry Validation property is available for composed drawing documents only. The default value is Off. When set to Off, the drawing document completes, but invalid geometries are left out. If set to On, the drawing document does not complete if invalid geometries are encountered during update.

View Cone Angle

Displays the cone angle value. This property is only available when you select the Steel Order Extensions.xml file as the Additional View Inputs property value in the General Tab (Edit Ruleset View Style Dialog).

See Also

Drawings View Explorer