Project: HiCAD Basics

Create Mounting Drawing

Drawing > Itemisation/Detailing > Mounting drawing

Use this function to create, modify and expand mounting drawings in only a few steps.

These mounting drawings have the following properties:

• The drawings show a section through the drawing. The drawing views are cuboid detail views, the size of these cuboids can be individually adjusted in the dialogue.
• The essential parts can be automatically annotated.
• Grids can also be automatically annotated.
• The drawings contain one or several views which are arranged in view groups.
• The drawings are saved in the drawing, i.e. HiCAD will create corresponding Sheet areas.

When you call the function, the Mounting drawing dialogue window will be displayed:

You can now configure the first sheet of the drawing, i.e. you can define the layout of the sheet and the view groups.

The areas of the dialogue window are as follows:

If a mounting drawings already exist for the current model drawing, these will be listed in the dialogue window when you call the function - please also see Change/Update Mounting Drawing.

Drawing structure

In the Drawing structure area a list (1) of the existing sheets of a mounting drawing is shown. Furthermore, you have the option to

• create new drawings and sheets (2),
• specify extended settings (3),
• define new view groups (4) and
• change existing view groups (5).

Example

Click or to hide and show the right part of the dialogue window.

The structure display

In the structure display you distinguish between

• Existing drawing
  Sheets of the mounting drawings in the active model drawing

and

• New drawing
  Sheets of the mounting drawings located in external drawing files belonging to the active model drawing.

Beneath these entries the sheets and view groups are listed.

When you right-click on an entry of the structure, a context menu with the following functions will be displayed:

Please note:

• When you call the function for the first time in the active drawing (no mounting drawing created yet), a sheet has already been automatically created and is active as well.

• If several view groups exist, these can be conveniently moved in the structure display via Drag & Drop.

Create new sheets/new drawings

Use the following functions for the creation of new drawing files for external mounting drawings and new sheets:

Pre-settings for view groups

A click on the icon opens the dialogue window shown below. The settings specified here apply to the next defined view group.

Create new view groups in...

To which sheet a view group is to be assigned depends on the selected option:

• Active sheet
  The view group will be assigned to the active sheet. This is the sheet that is currently selected in the structure.
• New sheet
  A new sheet will be created for the view group. Whether this sheet will be assigned to the active model drawing or to an external drawing file depends on the position of the cursor in the structure during creation of the view group.
• New drawing
  The view group will be assigned to a new drawing file. A new sheet will be automatically created in the process.

Offsets for new boxes

Here you can change the size of the boxes for the view groups by specifying an offset to the various directions and enlarge the box in this way.

Handling of external drawings

Here you determine how external drawings should be handled in the process:

• Close and back to original drawing
  Closes the external drawing files with the mounting drawings. HiCAD switches back to the original drawing.
• Leave open and back to original drawing
  The external drawings with the mounting drawing remain open. HiCAD switches back to the original drawing anyway.
• Leave open and show as active drawing
  The external drawings remain open and the last created drawing file will be active.

Define view groups

Use the functions of the left selection box

to define new view groups for the active sheet, a new sheet or a new drawing file. By defining a new view group, a cuboid for the the detail view will be determined and - as soon as the Mounting drawing dialogue wind is opened, visualized in the drawing as a transparent box. The front view will be indicated as such in the process.

The size of the box will be automatically determined by HiCAD, taking the offset specified via into account.

Proceed as follows:

1. Click on the icon to specify the pre-settings for view groups.
2. Define the view group.
3. If desired, change the size of the transparent box that visualizes the bounding box of the active view group.

The following options are available for the definition of new view groups:

	New view group by selection of 2 beams Here the bounding box is determined by the selction of 2 beam ends. HiCAD automatically calculates the smallest possible cuboid that completely covers the two beams, taking the offsets specified in the extended settings into account, and visualized it as a transparent box in the drawing. View group 1: Beam (1) and (2); View group 2: Beam (3) and (4)
	New view group by plane selection The bounding box is determined by the selection or definition of a processing plane. For the selection or definition of the processing plane you can use the same options as for the Processing plane function. The bounding box is created by extrusion of the processing surface to the front and to the back, taking the offsets specified in the extended settings into account.
	New view group by grid edge selection The bounding box is created by the selection of a Steel Engineering grid edge. The bounding box is created by extrusion of the edge running perpendicular to the grid edge to the front and to the back, taking the offsets specified in the extended settings into account.

The view group will be automatically assigned the name View group n, with n being a consecutive number within the sheet. The name can be changed via the context menu for view groups. In the structure view, right-click the view groups and select Rename.In the ICN, the view direction be additionally displayed, e.g. View 1: Side view from left.

After creating a new view group the settings dialogue for view groups will be shown on the right side of the dialogue window. There you have the option to change the name of the view group. Also, you can determine here whether a frame should be drawn around the frame, and specify the distances of the view groups to each other.

Change view group

The transparent cuboid that visualizes the bounding box of the active view group can be changed via the functions of the following selection box:

The following functions are available:

	Rotate box 180° Use this function to rotate the box 180° about a surface. Identify a surface ("facet") of the box, or 2 edges of a surface. Example - Rotate box
	Change box dimensions, via facet + point Here you select a surface of the box and move it to the desired location. The moving can also take place dynamically with the help of the cursor. Instead of specifying a point you can also right-click to open a context menu with the following functions:
	Change box dimensions, via facet + value Here you select the surface of a box and enter the value by which you want the box to be moved.
	If desired, you can also define a new box. For this the same functions as the ones for the new definition of a view group are available. Please note that the current Extended settings will be taken into account here!
	New box, via 2 beams
	New box, via plane
	New box, via grid edge
	Delete box Use this function to delete boxes. Call the function and then choose the box you want to delete.

Settings for the external drawings/the active sheet

Drawing

Here you specify whether

• a new drawing file is to be created for each drawing frame (distribution among several drawing files) or
• all drawing frames are to be created in one drawing file

If you choose the Several drawing files option, the drawing files will be automatically created and stored in the logical path C: of the system file FILEGRUP.DAT. This is the HiCAD subdirectory SZENEN by default. In the structure display the name New drawing will be changed to New drawing file per drawing frame.

Sheet

In this area you define the layout of the active sheet in the structure display.

Click or to show or hide this area.

Frame:

Here you specify the size of the sheet.

• User-defined
  The sheet size will be defined by explicit specification of width and height. If the Adjust scale to frame size checkbox is active, the view groups/views generated by the derived drawing will be automatically scaled in such a way that they fit into the created drawing frame. Please note that this setting can slow down the drawing derivation, as an optimally scaled arrangement will require multiple scaling of all generated views.

• DIN_...
  The sheet size will be defined by the size of a predefined DIN frame, e.g. DIN_A3. If you want the scale of the view groups/views to be automatically adjusted to the frame size, activate the Adjust scale to frame size checkbox.
• Fit DIN frame
  If you select this option, HiCAD automatically selects a DIN frame which contains the created view groups entirely and in an unscaled state. The Adjust scale to frame size option checkbox will be greyed out when this option is selected.

If you choose the Fit DIN frame option while a sheet contains only one view group, the frame size will always be recalculated when the drawing sheet is updated.

Insert drawing frame / Complete title block
Activate the checkboxes to automatically insert a drawing frame (for DIN formats) and fill in the title block. If you want a page break to be inserted as soon as a drawing frame is full, activate the Automatic page break when drawing frame is full checkbox.

Distribution of multiple drawing frames
Here you determine whether a new sheet view is to be created for each drawing frame, or whether all drawing frames are to be shown on one sheet.

Horizontal/vertical distance of view groups
Here you specify the horizontal and vertical distance of the view groups.

Settings for the active view group

As soon as a view group has been defined, the corresponding, editable settings will be shown beneath View group.

If no view group has been defined in the current drawing yet, the default settings for mounting drawings will be used here. These can also be changed via the Favourites management.

If any view groups already exist in the current drawing, the settings of an existing view group will be applied to the new view group, namely, the ones of the first view group located above the new view group in the structure display.

Click on the icon to determine which views are to belong to the view group. In the subsequently displayed dialogue window, you can select the views that are to be contained in the view group by activating the corresponding checkboxes.

For each selected view a table column is shown, enabling you to specify the settings for each view separately. In the settings you can specify

• the scale and the representation (Visualisation) of the view,
• whether boltings / standard parts, bores or weld seams are to be shown or hidden,
• which elements are to be annotated,
• whether grids are to be dimensioned. If a grid consists of several levels (planes), grid annotation tags can be automatically generated and chain dimensions can be added. Please note that the checkboxes beneath Dimensioning are only active when the System axes(grid) checkbox has also been activated.

Favourites

You can save the settings for mounting drawings as favourites and re-use them at any time. To do this, click the symbol at the bottom left of the window. More about favourites management can be found in the Manage Favourites topic.

Click OK to start the creation of the mounting drawing. The corresponding sheets will then be shown in the View structure of the ICN.

Example of a mounting drawing - 1 Sheet/ 2 View groups

Example - Mounting drawing with annotation tags and chain dimensioning for grid levels

Please note:

• The bounding boxes are not associatve, i.e. the views of a mounting drawing will not adjust themselves to moved grids or moved parts (this also includes updatings!).

• The representation of annotations for grids and grid sub-systems is defined in the Configuration Editor, at Automatic drawing derivation > Mounting drawing > Annotations.
• The representation of the annotations for main parts and sub-parts as well as of standard parts is influenced by the settings of the Part annotation templates function.

Change/Update Mounting Drawing • Settings for Mounting Drawings • Drawing Derivation: Functions