Use the DetailCenter Express Wizard to Create your 2D Drawings
Follow the steps of the wizard to to create your drawings.
- Select options.. –the Starting page. Select one or more tasks that you would like DetailCenter Express to do for you.
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Tip: The following wizard steps allow you to assign detailing styles to parts, groups, assemblies, and views. For cast in place elements, you will typically detail based on views. For precast elements, you will typically detail based on parts, such as concrete, cages, and individual rebar. Groups and assemblies are most commonly used for structural steel detailing.
- Prepare Detailing.. page Select one or more tasks to perform before detailing.
- Assign detail styles.. page Assign detail styles to the desired single parts.
- Assign detail styles.. page Assign detail styles to group.
- Assign detail styles.. page Assign detail styles to assemblies.
- Assign detail styles.. page Assign detail styles to desired views.
- Link detail styles.. page Select additional requirements to link detail styles.
- Create single sheet 2D Detail drawing.. page Select one or more settings for your detail drawing output options.
- Dispatch settings single sheet.. page Select object types to insert into your details.
- Single sheet output.. page Specify paths for drawing border, mark number, and output file
- Single sheet ..drawing borders.. page Select a drawing frame (border) from the drop-down list
- Fill out Title block page Specify how you want the title block to be completed.
- Clean up detailing page Select options used to clean up your detail drawing.
- Click Execute Based on your wizard settings, the system automatically creates 2D drawing objects and places them in the specified drawing frames.