Detail Style-Default Settings - Common tab

Setting Description
Scale 1:

Here, you set the scale of your details. Depending on the selection under ?Don?t Scale Parts? either the part or the text size is scaled.

Please remember the hints under 'General Information - Scale and Dimension Styles' in DetailCenter.

Don?t scale parts The parts keep their original size and only the text is scaled for output on a printer /plotter.
As true 2D lines The details are transformed into pure AutoCAD™ line diagrams. Intelligent properties of the 2D-details of course won?t be available any more.
ACIS if Plates

Poly-plates are always temporarily transformed into ACIS elements for detailing to allow for better dimensioning of radii.

The plate properties in the model are not affected by this.

Dimensions Dimensioning texts and lines are attached according to the settings entered in the Dimensiong tab.
Position Flags Position flags are attached according to the settings entered in the Position Flags tab.
Weld Flags Welding symbols are attached according to the settings entered in the Welding Symbols tab.
Descriptions Additional label texts are attached according to the settings entered in the Additional Texts tab.
Projection Method

Here, you specify the system according to which the different part views (front view, plan view, top view, etc.) are aligned towards each other.

  • Method 1 (E) ? The distribution of the views is effected according to DIN.
  • Method 3 (A) ? The distribution of the views is effected according to American standard.
Alignment

Here, you specify the alignment of the details at detailing. At groups, the main part specifies the alignment of the whole group.

  • Horizontal ? The parts are aligned horizontally when detailed.
  • Vertical ? The parts are aligned vertically when detailed.
  • Like Model ? AutoCAD aligns the parts during detailing according to their WCS position, which means that a slanted support remains slanted.
Reference View

Here, you indicate how the front view of a component part has to be specified. The other views then derivate from this front view.

  • From Component ? The element coordinate system of the component part is used for the determination of the front view.
  • From Global Views ? The global views are used for the determination of the front view.
  • Outside Model ? The view from the outside into the model is used for the determination of the front view.
  • Individually per Part ? The individually fixed front view of a part is used for the determination of the part?s front view. If it has not been defined, the element coordinate system will be used instead.
As Group Single parts views are displayed according to the views of the corresponding groups, if existing. The left view of a stiffener is e.g. the view onto a plate (normally this would be the plan view), because the left view of the group would show the stiffener in this way.
Only first View Only the first view of the part is displayed corresponding to the group; all other views are tilted according to standard related to this modified view.
Description Allows a description of the detail style to be entered in order to give more information about its precise function.
Style class symbol Allows the detail style to be allocated to an existing style class. The relevant icon is then displayed in the DetailCenter?s selection list to enable the essential function to be identified more quickly (e.g. detail style for individual parts, structural groups, etc.).

Selecting a style class has no effect on potential use. If the style can really only be used in a limited set of circumstances, the style class or the symbol cannot be changed.

If you subsequently replace the style with a restricted-use style, that style will receive the type of the currently selected style class and will be usable for that object type only.

Insertion position This is used to enter the location at which detail blocks are subsequently to be inserted. Select one of 9 distinctive insertion points, from Top-Left to Bottom-Right, to which the detail block (including for the 2D update) is to be anchored.