Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD
The Archibus Drawing Environment and Views
As you edit, create, and query asset symbols, the Archibus Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD accesses the appropriate view and if necessary, present the view's asset table and active fields. When working with drawing tools, you do not need to explicitly open views; when necessary, the drawing tool opens the appropriate view for you.
Setting the Current View
Several actions set the current view:
- Using the Archibus Set Asset Layer
command to activate an asset layer.
When you click Archibus / Asset / Set Asset Layer from the Ribbon, you choose an asset type, which also makes the asset type's default view the current view of the drawing tool. For example, use Archibus / Asset /Set Asset Layer to choose the EQ asset type, and you also open this asset type's default view -- the EQCAD view.
- Selecting a drawing task
from the Archibus Smart Client Navigator, or selecting a drawing task
from the Navigator within the Archibus Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD
These tasks will switch the focus to the Extension for AutoCAD. You can then set the appropriate layers by selecting a task, such as Set Equipment or Set Rooms.
- Selecting an asset symbol
for use with the Archibus / Asset / Edit Data and Archibus / Asset / Edit Data Multiple commands found on the Ribbon.
When you select an asset symbol for use with the Archibus Edit Data or Edit Data Multiple commands, the programs use the asset symbol's extended entity data to determine the asset symbol's asset type, and then activate this asset type's default view. For example, click Archibus / Asset / Edit Data from the Ribbon, select a room asset symbol, and the Archibus Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD determines that this asset symbol is of the Rooms asset type. It then presents this view's fields in the Edit Data dialog.
Changing the Current View
The current view continually changes as you select asset symbols for use with the Edit Data and Edit Data Multiple commands, run the Set Asset Layer command, choose tasks from the Navigator, and run the layer commands. The view set by these commands remains in effect until the next time you execute one of these commands.
For example, if you set the Equipment asset layer with the Set Asset Layer command, you load the Equipment view. If you next issue the Edit Data command on a room asset symbol, you activate the Rooms view shown in the Edit Data dialog.