T-FLEX Parametric CAD. Fundamentals. 2D Design

Fundamentals. Two-Dimensional Design
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After turning on the flag “Save automatically” and setting up the desired toggle state, it is enough to press
[OK] and the preview will be created in the current document.
To manually specify the area of the drawing, the flag “Save Automatically” should be turned off. In this
case, after pressing[OK] and closing the dialog window “Preview”, in the 2D window it is necessary to
specify the rectangular domain of arbitrary size. To do it, bring the cursor to one of the corners of the
intended rectangle and press , then bring the cursor to another corner and press again. After that, the
preview creation will be completed.
Preview in the raster Windows Bitmap (BMP) format can be created when invoking the command both
from the 2D or 3D window. As in the previous case, the preview is created on the basis of the whole image
or part of the image of the active 2D page. The used area of the page can be determined by the system
automatically or specified by the user.
The size of the created raster picture (in pixels) is specified via the group of parameters “Bitmap Size”.
The same parameters determine the dimensions of the rectangular box which is used for specifying
manually the area of the drawing for creating the preview.
Creating preview with automatic determination of the area of the drawing is carried out in the same way as
for the BMF format: it is necessary to set on the flag “Save Automatically”, select the desired approach
for determination of the area of the drawing and press[OK].
For manual specification of the area of the drawing, the flag “Save Automatically” should be turned off.
After pressing [OK] and closing the dialog window of the command, a rectangular box attached to the
cursor will appear on the screen (its size will coincide with the size of the picture being created). To create
preview, bring the box to the desired area of the 2D window and press .
The settings of the command “ST: Set Model Status” can be disabled in favor of the described
command settings. This will happen if you use the value “None” or “Auto” in the “Save” combo
box on the tab “Preview” of the command “ST: Set Model Status”. Upon confirming the
parameter settings, a message would be displayed that the preview would be created manually.
The preview created in the current document can be exported to the external file of the BMF or BMP format
(according to in which format the preview of the current document was created). And vice versa, any picture
from the external file of the BMF or BMP format can be imported to the current document. To do it, after
invoking the command, select in the list the required operation (“PV: Save preview”), and then in the
appeared standard window for saving/opening files specify the name of the external file.
The preview saved in the external file of the BMP format can be edited by using tools of any graphics editor.
Creating Icons
To create the document icons, there is a command “IC: Create/Edit Document Icon”:
Keyboard Textual Menu Icon
«Tools|Special data|Icon…»
After invoking this command, the dialog window “Document Icon” is opened. In the field “Icons” of this
dialog, there is a list of icons created in the current document. After selecting the icon in the list (with the
help of ), in the preview area (to the right of the list) the image of the selected icon appears. If there are no
icons in the current document, the list will be empty.