To Work With Grading Criteria

To create a grading criteria set

1. In Toolspace, on the Settings tab, expand Grading.
2. Right-click the Grading Criteria Sets collection and click New.
3. In the Grading Criteria Set Properties dialog box, enter a name and optional description for the set and click OK.

To create grading criteria

1. In Toolspace, on the Settings tab, expand Grading.
2. Expand the Grading Criteria Sets collection. The defined sets are listed.
3. Right-click a named grading criteria set. Click New.
4. In the Grading Criteria dialog box, click the Information tab and enter a name and an optional description.
5. Click the Criteria tab, and edit the values to define the criteria you want.
6. Lock the items that you do not want to change when you are creating grading objects. For example, if you are setting up a criteria to always create a 3:1 slope, lock the Slope value by clicking the lock icon.
7. Click OK.

To edit grading criteria

Use the Grading Editor to change the unlocked criteria values for a grading object.

You can make changes to a sequence of grading objects, selecting them one after another with a single click. You can also edit a single grading object with the Edit Grading command, by entering the new criteria values on the command line.

Tutorial Exercise: Editing the Grading Criteria

1. Select the grading. Click Grading tabModify panelGrading Editor.
2. In the drawing, select a grading.

   The name of the criteria that is applied to the grading appears in the dialog box.

3. Edit the criteria for the grading.

   For more information about the values that you can set for grading criteria, see Criteria Tab (Grading Criteria Dialog Box).

To edit grading criteria at the command line

Change unlocked criteria values for a selected grading object using the command line.

Use the Grading Editor to edit a sequence of grading objects by selecting them one after another with a single click.

1. Select the grading. Click Grading tabModify panelEdit Grading.
2. In the drawing, select a grading.
3. In response to the prompts, edit the criteria for the grading.

   The prompts that you see for a particular grading object depend on the criteria that the grading currently uses. For more information about the values that you can set for grading criteria, see Criteria Tab (Grading Criteria Dialog Box).

To specify the default grading criteria

Apply a set of grading criteria to each grading that you create.

1. Click Home tabCreate Design panelGrading drop-downGrading Creation Tools Find.
2. In the Grading Creation Tools dialog box, click (Select A Criteria Set).
3. Select the grading criteria that you want to apply.

   Click if you want to view the settings for the current criteria.

4. Create the grading.

   The grading criteria is applied to each grading you create until you change criteria by making another selection from the Grading Creation Tools.