New Drawings

DRAW User Guide

Area Based Automatic Drawing Production : ABA Drawing Process : New Drawings

The New Drawings part of the Process Drawings Control window allows the user to create new drawings to process.

To select new drawings, on the New Drawings part of the Process Drawings Control window, click Select to display the ABA New Drawing List window.

The user can select a combination of areas and templates to create drawings from.


Areas	Select from the drop-down list to filter the Design Areas list.

Click to select the required combination from the Drawing Templates and Design Areas lists or right-click the current selection to display a drop-down menu. The functionality is available in both lists:


Select All	Select from the drop-down menu to select all templates or areas in the list.
Clear Selection	Select from the drop-down menu to clear all selected templates or in the list.

ABA areas are defined by the administrator, refer to Create Area Libraries for further information.


Add Selection to List	Select from the drop-down menu to include the selected combination of templates and areas in the Process Drawings Control window.
Replace List with Selection	Select from the drop-down menu to replace any existing templates and areas in the Process Drawings Control window with the current selections.

Click Drawing Names to modify the drawing naming method. Refer to Drawing Names for further information.

Click Apply to accept the selections or Cancel to discard any changes and close the ABA New Drawing List window. The user is returned to the Process Drawings Control window.

When the New Drawings part of the Process Drawings Control window is populated, right-click to display a drop-down menu.


Select All	Select from the drop-down menu to select all drawings in the New Drawings list.
Clear Selection	Select from the drop-down menu to deselect all currently selected drawings in the New Drawings list.
Rename	Allows the user to rename the currently selected drawing in the New Drawings list. Select from the drop-down menu to display the Rename Drawing window. The user can modify the value in the Name field to rename the drawing. Click OK to apply the new drawing name or Cancel to discard any changes and close the Rename Drawing window. The user is returned to the Process Drawings Control window.
Remove All	Select from the drop-down list to remove all drawings from the New Drawings list.
Remove Selection	Select from the drop-down list to remove the currently selected drawing from the New Drawings list.

Drawing Names

The user can modify the drawing naming method for new ABA drawings.

On the ABA New Drawing List window, click Drawing Names to display the Drawing Names window.

By default, drawing names are formed as a combination of the template and area names separated by a hyphen. For example:

/ABATEMPLATE1-ARE101

Select the Task radio button, the Tasks Available list and the Tasks Selected list become active.


	Click to add the selected task from the Tasks Available list to the Tasks Selected List.
	Click to remove the selected task from the Tasks Selected list.
Modify Task	Click to set a naming convention for the new drawings. Refer to Set Drawing Name for further information.

Click Cancel to close the Drawing Names window. The user is returned to the ABA New Drawing List window.

Set Drawing Name

The user can modify the naming convention for new drawings.

On the Drawing Names window, click Modify Task to display the /SETDRAWINGNAME window.

The user can modify the Name Prefix, Sequence Number Start, Name Suffix and Delimiter fields.

Click OK to apply the new naming convention or Cancel to discard any changes and close the /SETDRAWINGNAME window. The user is returned to the Drawing Names window.

Alternatively, numbering can be set with the Auto Numbering radio button on the Process Drawings Control window. Refer to Auto Numbering for further information.