Administration

Drawing

Disable switch of standard

Select this check box to make it impossible to change standards, that is to use a standard other than the one currently defined in the Page Setup dialog box.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Disable update of standard

Select this check box to make it impossible to update standards for the current document in the Page Setup dialog box.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Disable background view access

Select this check box to make it impossible to access the background view.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Disable view upgrade

Select this check box to deactivate the Upgrade context menu command that is available for drawings, sheets, and views. This also deactivates the Disable view geometry upgrade command.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Disable view geometry upgrade

Select this check box to deactivate the sketched geometry upgrade in views.

By default, this check box is selected.

Page Setup Directory

[Box]

Specifies the path to the directory containing frame and title block macros.

By default, this box is empty and a concatenation of paths based on the installation path is used: install_root/VBScript/PageSetup.

Style

Default behaviors of property toolbars

Click Configure to configure the behavior of most properties available in the Text Properties, Dimension Properties, Numerical Properties, and Graphic Properties in the Object Properties panel.

For more information, see Default Behaviors of Property Toolbars.

Use style values to create new objects

Select this check box to prefill the dialog boxes and the Tools Palette with custom style values (as defined in the Standards Editor) when creating new annotations. In this case, the Tools Palette is disabled during the creation of the annotation. If you clear this check box, the annotation dialog boxes and the Tools Palette is prefilled with the last entered values (except for Texts, Texts with leader, Balloons, and Datum features). In this case, the Tools Palette is active during the creation of the annotation.

By selecting this option, you can reset the current style values in the dialog boxes at any time using the Reset unless it is unavailable.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Display Reset button in dialog boxes

Select this check box to display the Reset in the dialog boxes. Clear this option to hide the Reset in the dialog boxes and to disable the Reset functionality. This option only concerns the dialog boxes referring to annotations, dimensions, dress-up, 2D geometry.

By default, this check box is selected.

Generative view style

Disable generative view style usage

This option is used for the Drafting app only.

Clear this check box if you want to use generative view styles when creating or updating views. In this case, you can select a generative view style after selecting a view creation command, using the Generative View Style toolbar that is displayed. (If of advanced front views, the Generative view style list in the View Parameters dialog box is displayed).

Important: This option also drives view generation parameters when updating views, whether the view was created using generative view styles or not. In this case, there are two possibilities: If you have created the view using generative view styles (that is, with this check box cleared) and then select this check box, then, at the next update, the view properties (available through context menu, Properties) are used for all overloaded parameters (an asterisk * appears in the Properties dialog box in front of the parameters that are considered as being overloaded) while other parameters remain unchanged. If you have created the view without generative view styles (that is, with this check box selected) and then clear this check box, then, at the next update, all the parameters available in the view properties (available through context menu, Properties) are considered as being overloaded and used. To make sure that generative view styles are used in this case, click the Reset to style values in the Properties dialog box.

For more information, see Drafting User's Guide: Working with Generative View Style.

By default, this check box is selected.

Enable parameter override

Select this check box if you want to override generative view style parameter values locally on a view.

The Enable parameter override and the Disable generative view style usage check boxes are independent.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Annotation

Disable Lock Editing property access

Select this check box to disable the Lock Editing property that is available when you right-click an annotation and select Properties > Text tab.

When you select this check box, you cannot access the Lock Editing property and hence cannot lock an unlocked annotation.

When an annotation is locked and Disable Lock Editing property access check box is selected and you try to edit the annotation, a message appears in a tooltip informing that editing has been locked and only the administrator can unlock it.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Naming Uniqueness

Ensure uniqueness of sheet names

Select this check box to ensure the uniqueness of sheet names during creation or renaming.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Ensure uniqueness of view names

Select this check box to ensure the uniqueness of view names during creation or renaming.

By default, this check box is cleared.

In sheet

Check the uniqueness of view names in the sheet where a view is created or renamed.

In drawing

Check the uniqueness of view names in the drawing.

By default, In sheet is selected.

Distinguish SBCS and DBCS characters

This option is available for selection only when Ensure uniqueness of sheet names or Ensure uniqueness of view names, or both are selected.

Select this check box to distinguish between single-byte character set, SBCS, and double byte character set, DBCS, formats for sheet names or view names during creation or renaming.

This means Sheet.1 written in SBCS format is different from S h e e t . 1 written in DBCS format.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Distinguish lower case and upper case

This option is available for selection only when Ensure uniqueness of sheet names or Ensure uniqueness of view names, or both are selected.

Select this check box to distinguish between lowercase and uppercase for sheet names or view names during creation or renaming.

This means Sheet.1 is distinguished from sheet.1.

By default, this check box is cleared.