T-FLEX Parametric CAD. Fundamentals. 2D Design

Special Handling of Multi-Page Documents
Pages
As mentioned above, each page of a multi-page document in T-FLEX CAD can be used for creating various
elements: nodes, construction and graphic entities, hatches, text, etc. if necessary, elements can be
moved/copied from one page to another.
Elements located on different pages of the same document can be totally independent of each other, or, vise
versa, related by various means: by the copy operation, by projective relations, via variables and databases.
Besides, T-FLEX CAD allows creating elements located on several pages simultaneously. When creating
text or BOM elements, one can define transition to the new page if the element being created is getting out of
current bounds. As a result, each page will display the respective part of the multi-page element. Editing and
parameter modification commands work on the whole element, regardless of the portion selected in the
command.
A multi-page document, just as any other T-FLEX CAD document, can be inserted into another document as
a fragment or picture, exported in other graphic formats or printed. Each of these situations will be reviewed
separately.
• When using a multi-page document as a fragment in an assembly, only
one page of the fragment document is inserted. Therefore, when
inserting, the user can specify the particular page of the fragment
drawing to assemble, along with specifying fixing points or vector and
defining the fragment variables
• When inserting a multi-page document in another drawing as a picture
only one page of the selected document is inserted as well. The required
page is determined by the user upon inserting a picture.
• When exporting a multi-page document into another graphic format, the output graphic file will
contain the document page that was active when the export command was called (except exporting to
the AutoCAD format).
• When printing a document, the user can specify the pages to print in the print parameters dialog box.
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