Drawlist

Common Functionality User Guide

View Design : Drawlist

On the 3D View tab, in the Contents group, click Draw List to display the Drawlist - 3D View window.

The Drawlist window lists the names of items displayed in the 3D View. Adding an item to the 3D View (by dragging from the Model Explorer) automatically adds the item to the Drawlist. Individual elements can be added, or an entire Zone or Site.

The visual properties of Drawlist members can be changed using the controls on the Drawlist window.

A Drawlist member can also be added to the Collections window by dragging an item from the Drawlist and dropping it into the Collections window.

The Drawlist can be organised in groups by dragging a column header to the indicated position on the window. The gadgets at the top of the list can be used to filter the list by making selections from the right-click menu.

Right-click on a Drawlist member to display the following shortcuts:


Navigate To	Makes the selected item the current element.
Hide in 3D View	Temporarily removes selected items from the display.
Show in 3D View	Display elements that were previously hidden.
Remove from 3D View	Removes the selected item from the Drawlist. A similar operation can be performed from within Model Explorer.
Add to My Data	Adds the selected items to My Data list. It is also possible to drag and drop an item from the Drawlist into the Collections window.
Export to Excel	A grid and its contents as currently displayed can be exported to an Excel spreadsheet. If any filtering, sorting, grouping has been applied, this is reflected in the spreadsheet after saving it with the required filename and location.
Print Preview	All the Drawlist items are listed in the Print Preview window.

Multiple elements in the Drawlist can be selected using the standard Microsoft Windows list selection methods (using the mouse together with the Shift or Ctrl keys). Any changes made to visual properties apply to all selected items.

Click Add CE to drawlist to add the current element to the Drawlist.

Click Select CE in list to add the current element to the Drawlist (if it has been added to the list).

Click Remove Selection to remove selected objects from the 3D View.

Click Track Changes check box to track changes of the selected element.

Display Settings

The Display Settings pane allows the Colour, Edges and Translucency of displayed items to be modified.

Show

Click Show check box to display hidden elements.

Colour

The colour of all selected items in the Drawlist can be changed, select Colour to display the Colour window. Select the required colour and click Reset or Dismiss to exit.

Edges

Click Edges check box to display edges on the selected items, or to remove edge display on selected items.

Note:

The current element is displayed in the current element colour and is unaffected by the colour changes until another element is made current.

When modifying the visual properties of a top-level element in the Drawlist, lower level elements in the list owned by the element are also modified.

Translucency

Setting the translucency of the displayed items allows the user to see through the translucent items to items behind them in display. The degree of opaqueness can be controlled, select the required percentage translucency on the slider bar. On the scale, 0% is a solid colour and 100% is completely transparent.

Note:

The items drawn with translucent colour can appear to overlap with each other in some view directions, which is not a problem, it is an effect of viewing one translucent item through another. It is often better to draw translucent items with edges shown for a clearer view of the item.

Graphical Selection

The Graphical Selection tab lists the objects in the current graphical selection. The Display Settings can be modified for these objects in the same way as for the Drawlist tab.

Primitives

When an object is displayed in the Drawlist tab, its primitives can be displayed in the Primitives tab, which allows the control of the display for individual primitives.