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Layout management
- 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
New Layout 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 New Layout
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 contextual command, which is available
for layouts, sheets and views. This also deactivates the Disable
view geometry upgrade option. 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
- Property toolbars' behavior
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Click Configure... to configure in the Property Toolbar's Behavior dialog box, the behavior of most properties available in the Text Properties, Dimension Properties, Numerical Properties, and Graphic Properties toolbars.
- Use style values to create new objects
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Select this check box if you want dialog boxes and the Tools Palette toolbars to be prefilled 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 leave this box cleared, 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.
If you select this option, you can reset the current style values in the dialog boxes at any time using the Reset option unless it is disabled.
By default, this check box is cleared. - Display Reset button in dialog boxes
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Select this check box to display the Reset button in dialog boxes. Clear this option to hide the Reset button in dialog boxes and to disable the Reset functionality. This option only concerns dialog boxes referring to annotations, dimensions, dress-up, 2D geometry.
By default, this check box is selected.
Generative view style
- Disable Generative View Style definition on layout views
- Clear this check box to enable generative view style definition on
layout views. In this case, it is possible to select a generative view style
in the View Creation dialog box displayed when running
the following commands: New View, New
Section/Auxiliary View, New Section from 2D
Planes, New View From and
Axonometric View. The generative view style is
taken into account when generating a drawing (or a View from 3D in a
drawing), from the layout view. By default, this check box is selected.
- Enable parameter override
- Select this check box to enable parameter override.
Annotation
- Disable lock editing property access
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Disables the Lock Editing property access for Text, Table Cells, or Balloons.
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.
- Ensure uniqueness of filter names
- Select this check box to ensure the uniqueness of filter names during
creation or renaming. By default, this check box is cleared.
- Distinguish SBCS and DBCS characters
- This option is available for selection only when Ensure uniqueness of sheet
names, Ensure uniqueness of view
names, Ensure uniqueness of filter
names, or all are selected.
Select this check box to distinguish between single-byte character set, SBCS, and double byte character set, DBCS, formats for sheet names, view names, or filter 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 , Ensure uniqueness of
view names, Ensure uniqueness of filter
names, or all are selected.
Select this check box to distinguish between lowercase and uppercase for sheet names, view names or filter names during creation or renaming.
This means Sheet.1 is distinguished from sheet.1.
By default, this check box is cleared.
Assembly Context
- Allow selection of element:
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An element can be a geometrical element or an annotation.
- In the active product only
- Lets you select an element in a representation belonging to the parent product of the active representation only.
- In the favorite context only
- Lets you select an element in a representation belonging to the favorite context only.
- Wherever possible
- Lets you select an element wherever possible.
By default,
Wherever
possible is selected. - Display a warning message for selection outside:
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- Active product
- Displays a message when selecting outside
the active product.
Not available with In the active product only option.
By default, this check box is cleared. - Favorite context
- Displays a message when selecting outside
the favorite context.
Available only with Wherever possible option.
By default, this check box is selected.
- Create engineering connections in the parent product of:
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- The selected assembly geometries
- Lets you create engineering connections in the parent product of the selected assembly
geometries. By default, this
option is selected.
- The selected assembly geometries and the created annotations
- Lets you create engineering connections in the parent product of the selected assembly geometries and the created annotations.
Insert from File
- Show geolocation options panel while inserting from a DXF or a DWG file
- Select this check box to display the geolocation options panel while
inserting from a DXF or a DWG file. By default, this check box is cleared.