Manage Plot Settings Tool

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mouse_20 Library Toolbar : ssManageLayouts

 

Manage Plot Settings  Tool is used to create/edit/delete Plot Setting Objects. See detail description for different properties of Plot Setting Objects.

 

mouse_20 Using the Manage Plot Settings  Tool:

Find one of the Manage Plot Settings  Tool icon ssManageLayouts from the Library Toolbar (color coded peach) and highlight it. While highlighted Click on the tool. Manage Plot Settings  Dialog will show up and allows editing of Plot Setting Objects. After performing required operation in manage dialog, left click on OK button to save it to drawing. If Cancel button is left clicked, all the changes performed since opening of this manage dialog are undone.

 

Manage_PlotSettings

 

 

mouse_20 Select Plot Settings:

To select a Plot Settings, Left click on one of the plot settings names from the list displayed on left hand side of manage dialog.

 

mouse_20 View Plot Settings:

To view properties of Plot Settings, select a plot settings as described in Select Plot Settings section. The Preview section will show the selected plot settings as it will appear in drawing. All properties for selected plot settings are displayed on right hand side of manage dialog. Action Buttons available for selected plot settings will be displayed under Actions section below the plot settings names list.

 

btnAdd Add Plot Settings:

To add Plot Settings to drawing, Left click on add button (btnAdd) under Actions. This adds a new plot settings to drawing's  plot settings library. By default the Name property of plot settings object is set to Plot SettingsNumber.

 

btnDelete Delete Plot Settings:

To delete Plot Settings from drawing, select a plot settings as described in Select Plot Settings section. Left click on delete button(btnDelete) under Actions section. The selected plot settings will be deleted. Delete button(btnDelete) becomes unavailable when there is no plot settings selected or selected plot settings is hsCADCreator's default created plot settings.

 

btnImportDrawing Import Plot Settings from a drawing:

To import Plot Settings from an existing layout, Left click on import button(btnImportDrawing) under Actions section. This opens an object selection dialog. After selecting required layout click on OK and plot settings from selected layout will be added to current drawings plot settings library.

 

Also See:

Plot Setting Objects

Library Toolbar