Use the Openings/Bolts dialog to define a new style or modify an existing style of opening or bolt description.
The dialog displays after you click New or Modify in the Styles of descriptions dialog when the Openings/Bolts category is selected.
Define parameters:
- Style name - use this edit field to specify a name for the style
- Under Sight, select a method of generating an opening in a drawing
- Real - real opening edges are displayed (openings in view and perpendicular openings)
- Real with axes - real opening edges are displayed (openings in view and perpendicular openings) with opening axes
- Symbol - when this is selected, openings in view and perpendicular openings are displayed as symbols. Click the >> button to extend the dialog to include a library of symbols available
- Fill holes - if this is selected, an opening for the Real or Real with axes option will be displayed as shown in the drawing below
Use the buttons in the expanded dialog:
- Edit - opens a dialog in which you can modify a selected symbol.
- Add - opens a dialog where you can define a symbol (as an AutoCAD® block). An insertion point for a defined block is treated as a center of a drilled opening (top view) or as an end of the opening axis (side view).
- Delete - deletes a selected symbol
Opening symbols must be defined as a pair: opening in view and perpendicular opening. For Size, specify the size of a symbol in a final drawing, expressed in the currently applied project units (for a symbol displayed in a top view). A symbol in a side view is scaled proportionally to obtain a specified size, but symbol length is adjusted to the thickness of a drilled part.
- The Preview shows an opening.
- Under Description, define a manner of opening description. Descriptions of openings are generated if Description is selected. They may include 2 lines of text and a text in the frame.
- Frame shape - Use this list to select a shape of the text frame (none, rounded or rectangular).
- For Text style select from the list of text styles defined in a DWG format file; the edit field below the list displays a description (text) syntax. Text may comprise any user-defined character string. At the bottom of the Description field are options that, when selected, add a variable to the defined comment at the cursor position:
Number of holes (%%Holenum) - if this option is selected, a number of openings in the opening group is added.
%%Diasym - if this is selected, a & symbol is added.
%%Dia - if this is selected, a value of opening diameter is added.
%%Boltsign - if this is selected, a bolt symbol is added.
%%Bltlen - if this is selected, bolt length is added.
%% Boltclass - if this is selected, a bolt grade is added.
%%Desc - if this is selected, a bolt description is added.
%%fos - if this is selected, finishing of surface is added.
%%connpos - if this is selected, a position of a connector (a set of a bolt, washer and a nut) is added.
%%boltpos - if this is selected, a bolt position finishing is added.
%%washerpos - if this is selected, a washer position is added.
%%nutpos - if this is selected, a nut position is added.
%%washernum - if this is selected, a number of washers is added.
%%nutnum - if this is selected, a number of nuts is added.
- If Groups on common leader is selected, one description (one leader) is generated for all openings in a group during dimensioning. If this is not selected, descriptions (leaders) are generated for each opening.