Properties / Attributes

Every drawing, every assembly and every part has specific properties in HiCAD. These could be attributes which determine the appearance and shape of the part and its geometry elements, or influence non-graphical information, which inter alia have to be considered during BOM creation. You can differentiate between

The element attributes - colour, line type and layer - solely influence the depiction of the various geometry elements of a part. However, part properties like material or surface describe the part itself. In addition to these properties it is also possible to assign non-graphical information - the so-called drawing and part attributes - to drawings, assemblies and parts. These will be taken into account for example during the designation or BOM creation. Examples for such attributes are:

Some attributes are automatically assigned when creating a drawing or installing parts and assemblies. Others can be modified via Drawing attributes or Part attributes (context menu of the drawing or part). In order to do so the Drawing attributes or Part attributes dialogue window will be displayed. The content of the window depends on the selected part (e.g. assembly, 3-D part, Sheet Metal, beams, pipeline etc.) as well as on the parameter configuration (Mechanical Engineering, Steel/Metal Engineering, Plant Engineering, DSTV, Drawing Management).

 

 

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Customer-specific system attributes

In practice, there is often the wish to use own, customer-specific system attributes. To define customer-specific system attributes, you must create a corresponding data record in the System settings > System attributes table using the catalogue editor. Please note that the names of customer-specific attributes must always begin with U_. If this is not the case, the table cannot be saved. In this case, a corresponding error message appears:



Customer-specific system attributes can be used like other system attributes in attribute masks, for annotations, etc.

Attributes OverviewHDX and HDB FilesDrawing PropertiesPart/Assembly AttributesBOMs