The Generate option displays the following page where you generate the actual 2D drawings. The list of View Arrangement Data files defined for the project are listed in the top section. To generate drawings, select the VAD file(s) from the list and click the Generate Drawings icon, the output drawings are created and displayed in the bottom (Output) section of the page.

Displays when you click the Drawing Generation icon from the options panel.

Setting	Description
Select View Definitions	Toggle the View Selection button: : No View Definition is selected. Press to select all View Definitions : All View Definitions are selected. Press to de-select all View Definitions.
Delete Output Files	To Delete any or all of the output files, enable the check box next to the file and click the Delete Output icon. This will remove the file from this list and delete it permanently from the project's Output directory.
Clear Temporary files	Deletes the ancillary files that are created during the process of generating the output drawing(s). Note: These files include the data used to generate the output drawings. If additional changes to the source files are made and updated output drawings generated, it may save time to keep and reuse these files.
View Definition	Select the View Definition file(s) from the list to use as a source for the output drawing. The list includes all of the VAD files defined for the project. Orthographics Manager verifies the VAD files and will display a verification symbol next to the files accordingly: A green check displays next to a file with no errors found A red X displays next to a file which failed verification. Note: In the image above, all files have been verified with no errors. Information on the View Definition is displayed to the right of the selected view: Note: Once the drawings have been generated, the Hiddenline and Dimensions and annotations drawings (if opted to be generated) will be listed. Once the drawings have been generated, the reports for the selected View Definition will display:
Hidden Line Drawings	Click to include hidden line drawings in the type of output drawings generated.
Do not add border	When enabled, the defined border file will not be included in the final output drawing.
Dimension/Annotation drawings	Enable this option include dimensioned and annotated drawings in the type of output drawings generated.
HiddenLine Mode	Select one of the following options from the list: Standard MicroStation Dynamic View
Generate Drawings	Click the icon to generate the output drawings. Once the files are generated, they are opened in the Drawing Editor. The list of files generated are displayed in the Output Files section. Note: In the Project's Output directory, there are two default folders, Hidden and DimAnno, which the output drawings are saved to.
Check In (For Managed Configurations ONLY)	This button is only displayed when working in a ProjectWise Managed Configuration. It lets you push the output files to the ProjectWise datasource.

Reports

When the drawings are generated for the selected view definition(s), a set of reports are created and displayed in the View Definition information section:

To view a report, double click a Report Type from the list and the report data will be displayed in a dialog such as the one below:

When you click the Export Excel icon, the report information is opened in Excel such as shown below. From there you can save the report to any location.