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The following tasks are used when you generate CAD loop drawings.

Apply Loop Drawing Generation Method

You can specify the required drawing generation method for one or more selected loops in the Domain Explorer. You can also specify in the Preferences dialog which generation method to use by default and whether to display each signal on a separate drawing sheet when you select By Signal or Custom by Signal as the generation method.

Generate CAD Loop Drawings

You use this procedure to generate CAD loop drawings.

Show the Latest Generated CAD Drawing

This option enables you to display the latest loop drawing that was generated in Smart Instrumentation using an external CAD application. The drawing opens in the CAD application you set as default on the Preferences dialog.

Display CAD Loop Drawing Generation History

You can keep track of all the macro data changes in your CAD drawings. You choose this option when generating a loop using an external CAD engine. You can access the loop generation history from the print preview of loop drawings and the relevant reports.

The loop generation history feature compares the retrieval values of macros from different generations. Therefore, the history data is available when you have already generated at least one loop drawing for a selected loop.

Delete CAD Loop Drawing Generation History

You use this procedure to improve performance when comparing generated data values in CAD loop drawings, by deleting the history of obsolete CAD loop drawing generations. Before deleting the values of previous CAD loop drawing generations, you select the required loops, and then set the period within which you want to delete the selected history records.

Clear Previous Macro Result Records

Use this procedure to clear macro result records of generated loop drawings. The software saves the macro results in the database for the next time you want to generate a loop drawing for the same loop. The saved data accumulates and at a certain stage might affect the generation performance.