Customization of Assembly and Part Drawings

Customization of Assembly and Part Drawings

Assembly and part drawings are created automatically in ProtaSteel. These drawings are prepared with the settings specified by the software. These settings can be customized by user.

  1. Changing the Drawing Properties

Open the “Drawing Settings” from the “Drawing and Reports” top menu and choose "Drawing Layout Settings" to change the drawing layout properties.


In the “Layout” tab, new names can be created in the “Layout Group Names”.  Press “Create” button to add a new layout size.  Layout names include the paper size which will use in “Assembly/Part Drawing Macro”.  

“Available Tables” tab has 4 parameters to add drawings. Which parameter want to use in drawing, it can move to “Chosen Table”.




Location of the “Chosen Tables” parameters can be customized. Current table can be located using a reference in the drawing. So, chosen tables are located in the drawing according to this rule.  
  1. Select a parameter in the “Chosen Tables”
  2. Set the location of the parameter using reference and table in the “Current Table”
  3. Click to “Update” button.
  4. Click to “Save” and “Close” button. 

    

When A0 paper size is selected for assembly drawings, it will be prepared according to this settings. 

The other paper sizes can be  similarly customized. ProtaSteel considers the default settings for the other drawings. 


  1. Changing of The Assembly Drawing Properties

Click on the menu item “Drawings and Report” > “Drawings Settings" > “Assembly Drawing Settings”



In the “Assembly Drawing Macro”, settings for different profile groups can be stored. There are different settings for each structural members in the “Multiple Settings” tab. For example, settings group of the column drawings and settings group of the roof beam drawings can be saved separately. This distinction can be understandable with prefix. Settings on the right table directed according to assembly prefix names. The settings on the right table is redirected to a setting group according to prefix of the assembly drawing. The table on the left is contains the drawing settings. For example, assembly names which started with CL, will be drawing with selected the “Details of Columns”.


  1. Order of the Application:

·     Select an object group from the “Setting Name”.  For example “Details of Columns”.


·     Drawing title, Drawing name prefix, page size, scale of the drawing etc. can be changed in the “General” tab. Additionally, can also select the include single parts, draw single assembly in each draw, freeze drawings.


·      Assembly views, single part views and viewport distances can be set on the “Views” tab. 



 Automatically dimensions can be changed on the “Dimensions” tab.


 
Object settings of the project model can be changed on the  “Annotation and Display Settings” tab. For example, frame properties or dimension properties.



 

The texts of the title block can be defined on the “layout” tab. 

“Layout” tab includes the page layout and title block information. “Assembly Layout” will used in this drawing.  You can find assembly layout settings in the “Drawings Layout Manager”.



When you click to  “Save as Default” button, this settings will be use as company standard in the all projects. 

These settings must be done separately for the other structural members in the “Multiple Settings” tab. 

WARNING : This settings are saved in “Project Preferences” file. Please save as this file before start to changing. If you want to back ProtaSteel default settings or if you experience the corrupted problem in the future, you can replace the settings. 

How can I open the Project Preferences File?

Click the ”Project Preferences” button in the "File" top menu. 

 

Please see the video for more information about "Customization of Part And Assembly Drawings".



Customize Layout/Sheet/Titleblock in Assembly and Part Drawings

If you wish to only import company standard Titleblock (In DXF) to ProtaSteel to Assembly/Part drawing. Please follows steps below. 

  1. Go to Drawings & Reports > Drawings Settings > Drawings Layout Settings
  2. In the Layout Manager
    1. Go to DXF Templates tab,
    2. click "New" to create new title block. 
    3. Rename the "Template Name" with the "Title Block" Ticked. (In this example, will be using template name as "Test".
    4. Search for the DXF directory
    5. Save the name.

    6. switch to Layout tab
    7. Select either Assembly Layout or Part Layout. In this example, I will show you Assembly Layout.
    8. Select the Layout Name A0 (for A0 size)
    9. under the available tables, make sure the titleBlock moved into "Chosen Tables" by replacing the current "A0 Title Block" or “A4 Title Block".
    10. Click "Update" the Table (Repeat this to "Part Layout" if you wish to apply the same titleblock to Part Layout as well)
    11. Save the Layout Manager and close.
  3. Lastly, highlight the Part elements or assembly elements that wish to be generated into the drawing and right click to "Create Drawings" for either Part Drawing or Assembly Drawing.

Please see the video for more information about "Customization of Layout/Sheet/Titleblock for Assembly and Part Drawings".. 




    • Related Articles

    • Engineering Drawings Overview

      ProtaSteel provide powerful feature to generate Engineering Drawings, Quantity Takeoff and flexibility on modifying the drawings. List of topics below that will be covered under this categories: Diagnostic Tools Drawing Module Viewport Properties ...

    • Insert Own Sheet/TitleBlock

      In ProtaDetails, user can select own preferred sheet (titleblock) when generating any detail drawings. To do so, refer to steps below: Go to "C:\Users\<username>\Documents\ProtaLib\Sheets" and make a copy of Prota original Title Block drawings. Open ...

    • Drawing Module

      ProtaSteel has a powerful tool to prepare engineering drawings – it’s simply called the “Drawing module”. The drawings are based on the views prepared in the modelling module. The steps are summarized as below : 1. Create the desired View in Model ...

    • Import Titleblock for General Drawing

      User can simply import company standard titleblock as DXF in "Drawing Module" by going to "BIM" top menu > Import DXF (Make sure that the titleblock is not in block.) Select the company standard titleblock DXF directory. Titleblock annotation can be ...

    • Drawing Settings

      Drawing Settings affects the drawings generated in ProtaDetails such as scales, label settings and etc. It is a good practice to check and preset the settings before generating drawings to save time on manual modification in the later stage. Scales ...