Access Rights for Externally Referenced Parts (3-D)

If you are working with HELiOS and load a drawing containing referenced parts with a document master, HiCAD checks to see whether you have access rights for these parts.

Referenced parts with access rights are marked in the ICN by the symbol once the drawing has been loaded.
You can process, i.e. change, save, delete etc., these parts.
Referenced parts without access rights are marked in the ICN by the symbol.
If you process a part marked in red, a dialogue window containing the following options appears when you first make a change to the part:

Discard changes
The change that you have made is undone and, instead, the current KRA file is re-loaded. This means that the state of the part that was current after loading the drawing is restored.
Delete referencing
Referencing is removed and the changes retained. The marking of the part in the ICN is changed accordingly.
Retain changes until next saving
The change is initially retained until the next time the drawing is saved. The depicted dialogue no longer appears if further changes are made to the part. The part cannot be saved. The red marking in the ICN is retained. When the drawing is saved, the dialogue window is displayed again. You will then need to choose between the Discard changes and Delete referencing and Retain changes... options.

Activate the desired option field and click OK to exit the window.

If a drawing contains a referenced part with a document master which cannot be found in the active database, e.g. when being processed by external offices with their own database, the setting in the system file ALG3PAR.DAT determines whether the part is blocked or released.

Entered document master not in DB -> Ref. part blocked? 0:no 1:yes

The default setting is "1", i.e. the parts are blocked.