Overview

Drawing content manager in the drawing mode side pane is an interactive tool for viewing and editing model objects and drawing content in the current drawing. With this functionality, missing, duplicate or false information can be checked without having to manually go through all drawing objects separately. The functionality is also intended to aid new or inexperienced users to add annotations to drawing content without drawing properties set up.

Previously, the Drawing content manager functionality was restricted to a limited number of property columns for each category type. You can now edit the existing column property type and add new property columns.

From now it is possible to define the column property types and the preferable number of columns for each category. You can also add, edit, and remove columns and change the column order in Drawing content manager.

Notes:

• It is not possible to add the same property twice in the same category with the exception of Custom text.

• Mark quantity and quantity ("NUMBER") properties cannot have other properties in the column they are put.

• The available properties are those defined for the Template Editor.

Settings work in two levels. First, a user-specific setting file DrawingContentManagerCategories_<username>.xml is searched for, and if it is found, it will be used. If this file cannot not be found, then DrawingContentManagerCategories.xml will be looked for and used if found. To convert the user-specific file to a generic one, just to remove the " _username " part from the file name.

Settings are searched for in the \attributes folder under the model folder, then XS_PROJECT , XS_FIRM , XS_SYSTEM , and XS_USER_SETTINGS_DIRECTORY.

To do

Create the needed categories. They are in <model>\attributes\DrawingContentManagerCategories_<username>.xml.

Remove the " _username " part from the file name and copy it to any folder in XS_PROJECT , XS_FIRM , or XS_SYSTEM path in the environment.