Context Menu of the Drawing

If you right-click an empty area of the HiCAD drawing surface, the context menu of the drawing is activated. This gives you fast and direct access to the following functions:


Create new parts

The below parts are fitted as main parts.

3-D Parts

Description

Derives a general cylinder from a 3-D sketch.

Main assembly

Creates a 3-D main assembly.

Assembly

Creates a 3-D assembly.

Sketch

Creates a new 3-D sketch.

Derives a revolved solid from a 3-D sketch by cloning and rotating about an axis lying in the screen plane.

Creates cuboids, prisms, pyramids and tetrahedrons as well as cylinders, cones, spheres and toruses.

Generates a new 3-D sheet.

Activates the Pipes/Vessels menu for insertion of sheets, connections, Y-pipes, direction elements etc.

Activates the expert system for 3-D steel beam insertion.

Mounts rectangular steel plates to steel beams.

Pipeline Creates new pipelines in Plant Engineering.
Components/Gauges Creates new Plant Engineering components and gauges.

 

2-D Parts

Description

Creates a new 2-D main part.

Copies a part from the active drawing, together with its sub-parts.

Creates a 2-D main assembly. All existing main parts and sub-parts in the drawing are automatically subordinated to this assembly. ....

Creates a new main part which is subordinated to the active main part.

Copies a part from the active drawing, together with its sub-parts. The copy is subordinated to the active part.


Insert objects

Use the functions listed below to insert a new main part into the current drawing.

Drawing frame

Inserts a drawing frame with title block.

Insert part, via Explorer (2-D/3-D)

Inserts parts/variants via selection from the Explorer.

Insert main part, via Standard Part catalogue (2-D/3-D)

Inserts parts/variants via selection from a factory standards catalogue.

User library

Enables the combining of frequently used parts and macros in libraries. The parts and macros belonging to the library can then be conveniently fitted/executed via a pop-up menu.

Insert part, via DB document master (2-D/3-D)

Inserts parts via selection of their document master (optional, only in conjunction with HELiOS).

Insert part, via DB article master

Inserts parts via selection of their article master (optional, only in conjunction with HELiOS).

 

Others

Activates a pull-down menu with further part insertion functions, e.g.for


Coordinate system

Function

Description

Activates the World Coordinate System (World CS).

Activates the Part Coordinate System (Part CS) of the active 3-D part.

Temporarily creates a Local Coordinate System (Local CS) by specification of a 3-D processing plane.

Activates the Coordinate System menu.


Visualisation

Function

Description

Shows isolated points for the identification of assemblies (Layer 47).

Hides isolated points for the identification of assemblies (Layer 47).

Shows the dimensioning layer (Layer 49).

Hides the dimensioning layer (Layer 49).

Hides or shows the - normally invisible - Layer 0.

Activates a context menu with further visualisation settings.


Other functions

Description

Creates a Bill of Materials (BOM) for the drawing and displays it in the Report Manager.

Changes the main scale of the drawing.

Assigns attributes like drawing number, designation or author - even without database.

  HELiOS Activates the HELiOS menu.

Activates the Properties of the drawing menu.

Bills of Materials (BOMs)Visualisation SettingsHELiOS PDM Functions

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Date: 30/10/2018

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