Preferences Dialog

The Preferences dialog shown below displays when you select the

(Preferences) icon from the AutoPLANT Project Browser toolbar.

Note: This dialog is only available when you are connected to an AutoPLANT database.

The dialog enables you to define the criteria fields that will be available to break your generated isometrics into separate drawings. Select fields from the Available Column and press Add>> to make them available for this operations. Select fields from the Selected Column list and press <<Remove to remove this from the list of available fields.

Setting	Description
Use Project Settings	When enabled this option overrides any values in this dialog that have been manually set and updates the dialog based on the project settings in the isogen.ini or auto-iso.ini files respectively. (these files reside in the project directory). When you enable this option, all other fields in this tab become disabled.
Stop Signs	If Create Multiple Files is checked, the system will use the stop signs in the selection set of components to break into separate isometric drawings. If the option is not checked, then the system will ignore the stop signs.
Custom Criteria	This section enables you to define the criteria fields that will be available to break your generated isometrics into separate drawings. Select fields from the Available Fields column and press Add>> to make them available for this operations. Select fields from the Criteria Fields column list and press <<Remove to remove this from the list of available fields.
Connection Criteria	The Connection Criteria field is a read only field that displays which attribute changes will be used to break up an iso into separate files. The field is populated by either adding or removing database fields from the Criteria Fields list.
Naming Rule	The Naming Rule field determines how filenames are assigned when generating isometrics. By default, as fields are added to the Criteria Fields list, they are added to the Naming Rule section as well. This is a default convention only, and can be bypassed by simply deleting the field names from the Naming Rule definition window. By default, "ISO" is prefix is added to the beginning of the each filename definition.