Project: HiCAD 3-D

Attributes in Annotation Tags

Annotation tags can also contain different attributes. These can either be used in the Editor or in FTD files.

• Part attributes / Article attributes
• Document master / project attributes
• Attributes of superordinate parts
• Drawing attributes
• Usage attributes of product structure
• Referenced attributes
• Using of Text IDs

Part attributes / Article attributes

HiCAD part attributes as well as HELiOS article attributes can be directly selected from the right list box in the Annotation Editor.

Part attributes within a text block are displayed in curly brackets.

The preceding of article attributes with the string %DBAT (required in older HiCAD versions) is no longer necessary, i.e. %DBAT{Connection type 3 (Article master} is identical with {Connection type 3 (Article master}

Document attributes / Project attributes

HELiOS document attributes and project attributes, too, can be directly selected from the right list box.

Please note:

• When using document attributes, the document master of the drawing (and not that of the part) will be evaluated.
• When using project attributes, the procedure is as follows: If the article master has been assigned to a project, the project attributes of the parts will be used. Otherwise, the project data of the drawing will be evaluated.
• The preceding of document attributes with the string %DBAD, and of project attributes with the string %DBAP (required in older HiCAD versions) is no longer necessary.

Attributes of superordinate parts

If you want to use attributes of the superordinate part when annotating a part, you can precede the attribute with the string %U. The letter U can also be used repeatedly so as to use the attributes in the structure of even higher parts, e.g.

Drawing attributes

If you want to use drawing attributes in an annotation, you can select them from the right listbox in the Annotation Editor:

Usage attributes of product structure

The usage attributes of the product structure, too, can be displayed in 3-D annotations. To do this, precede the attribute name in curly brackets with the string %DBVA, e.g.

No automatic updating of the tags will be performed if the usage attributes are changed.

Referenced attributes

HELiOS offers the option to define referenced attributes. In the default configuration of the software product, this option is used for the attribute MATERIAL in the article master. The attribute points to a reference attribute (in case of the MATERIAL attribute this the same-named reference attribute) and "inherits" the properties of this attribute. In HELiOS masks, for example, you can refer, via the referenced attribute BZ, to the designation of the material, while in the standard database the quality of fasteners is entered there.

You can use the string

%DBAT(ATTTRIBUT:REFERENZ)

to write referenced attributes onto annotation tags, e.g.:

%DBAT(MATERIAL:BZ)

Use of text IDs (for Administrators)

Text IDs from the HiCAD text service (as shown in the TEXTTABLESEDITOR.EXE) can now also be used in annotations. This is not realised via the Annotation Editor, but needs to be set accordingly via template files (FTD):

%TS(Textid)

Example:

%TS(WrongWrapFaces) produces the text Wrapping is not possible with the selected facets.

TexttablesEditor

Part Annotation (3-D) • Multiple Selection of Texts