Grid Tasks

DRAW Administrator Guide

Area Based Automatic Drawing Production : User Tasks : Grid Tasks

By default, reference grid annotations are generated when a REFGRID is added to the drawlist. Refer to Reference Grid Annotations for further information. To remove the functionality, you can modify the view visual style to prevent the system from automatically generating the annotations and use grids tasks instead. There are two example PML functions supplied, apsgrids.pmlfnc and apsgriddimn.pmlfnc that can used to generate grid labels and dimensions.

To access the apsgrids.pmlfnc and apsgriddimn.pmlfnc functionality a view task must be created that calls a PML function to manipulate either the view parameters to update the gridline annotation or manipulate the generated annotation.

If you use the automatic system annotation functionality but wish to modify the generated labels and dimensions, there are two options:

1.

Create a new visual style, set the grid annotation parameters and apply this to the ABA drawing template. The automatic grid annotation is created using these settings.

2.

Modify automatic grid annotation after it has been generated, you can use a TASK in the normal way.

NEW TASK /equipment_2/S1/V1/VTask3

FUNCTION 'Modify View Grid Parameters'

PMLFUNCTION 'MODIFYVIEWGRIDS'

define function !!modifyViewGrids(!arguments is ARRAY)

!viewRefe = !!ce

-- Set grid parameters

AGSIDE 'TOP LEFT'

-- Update the grid annotation

UPDATE GRIDANNO

The supplied PML function apsgrids.pmlfnc.

Grid Lines can be modelled using the GRIDSYTEM to annotate those visible within the relevant view. Refer to Model Reference Manual for further information.

For example, the N-S Grid Line marked as '7' is defined in the 3D model as:

GRIDAX GRDAXE X

GRIDLN GRDOFF 16640mm GRDID 7

The GRIDLN elements are drawn because they have been added to the draw list and have a Representation Rule of their own;

For example, the Equipment Discipline /equipment_discipline has the following added;

ALL GRIDSYSTEM WITH ( MAT ( ATTRIB DESC , 'ISOADP' ) EQ 0 )

The reason for testing the attribute Description is to make sure that a specific grid system is added and not all available grid systems.

The Representation used for the grid system:

STYLE /Aba/Grid-Style n CLStyle Chained CLColour Blue

RRUL Use /Aba/Grid-Style for ALL GRIDSYSTEM

When the Task is executed, the grid lines that display within the view are determined using the following rules;

GRIDLN WITH GRDAXE OF OWNER EQ 'X'

GRIDLN WITH GRDAXE OF OWNER EQ 'Y'

GRIDLN WITH GRDAXE OF OWNER EQ 'Z'

Labels can be directly associated with a grid line.

Each label is associated with a found GRIDLN, uses either NPPT 1 or 2 for positioning at the relevant end and references an SYTM, which extracts the value from the attribute GRDID.

For an example, SYTM /Aba/APS/Grids, which contains a single TEXTP element with the hash code #GRDID, the result being '7' in this case;

The labels are created in a unique View LAYE, which is named as per the View plus a suffix /LeftGridLines or /TopGridLines depending on which side of the View the label appears.

The supplied PML function apsgriddimn.pmlfnc.

The PML function is designed to create dimensions outside of the view limits between the gridline references, if they have been created using APSGrids. Refer to APSGRIDS for further information.

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