T-FLEX Parametric CAD. Fundamentals. 2D Design

Fundamentals. Two-Dimensional Design
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First, in a separate document create either the complete BOM title block with a header and the ruled BOM
table, or just the table header, depending on the purpose of the prototype being created. Upon saving the
created title block, one can proceed with creation of the BOM prototype itself.
Call the command “BC: Create Bill of Materials”. Select the “Empty Template” as the base prototype.
Upon pressing the graphic button [Create New Template] a window appears for selecting a new
document prototype (the default is the prototype of a new 2D document “NONAME .grb”).
Next, define the name of the prototype being created. The system will then open a new window with the
created document, and the automenu will display the options for creating the BOM template text:
Create Multiline Text
Create paragraph text
Set Text parameters
Set relation with Node
Exit command
Creating BOM title block
A prototype for a BOM on a separate page requires creation of a complete BOM title block including the
title block text, header and grid lines of the BOM table being created. The table itself will be created with
indivisible borders in this case.
Fixing of the title block as a fragment in the BOM prototype document will be done in absolute coordinates.
Therefore, it is not necessary to create fixing points or a fixing vector. All you need is just to position the title
block drawing correctly with respect to the page borders.
The title block text entries are created based on “Text” elements, driven by the external variables in the
document. To simplify entering the title block text, one can create custom dialog boxes.
To create a BOM prototype to be placed on an existing drawing page, all you need is to create just the table
header. The grid lines will be defined by the borders of the table text, that should be made visible in this
case.
A fixing vector needs to be created in the table header file, using two points. The fixing vector should pass
along one of the horizontal borders of the created table. The fixing vector direction determines the position
of the header as the BOM grows.
The fixing vector should be the directed from left to right in the case the left justification is set for the BOM
table template, and the right to left if the right justification is set to for the template. When creating the BOM,
the system will fix the header at upper or lower nodes of the text, reserving the necessary space for the
header.
If the prototype is intended for creating multipage BOMs (usually, those are BOMs located on a separate
page), one needs to create an additional title block for the second and the subsequent pages (also in separate
document).
As an example, one can review the standard BOM title blocks located in the library “Standard”,
the folder “Titleblk”.