036-ShopDrawings hsbinoutput/shop Drawings

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1 1 FUNCTION The function of this document is to provide information on how to use the shop drawings (hsbinoutput\shop drawings) in hsb In hsbcad you have Element drawings that can be generated automatically in the Paper space environment. This is done by adding hsbcad information to a standard AutoCAD viewport. Shop drawings are used in the Model space environment and are used to make loose material drawings. Multipage Shop Drawings are divided into different Styles, they can be done per individual item (beam, log, sip ), they can be done per Element, Group, Module or Subassembly. Soon to be added are Multipage Styles for Truss & Collection Entities. 2 MULTPAGE COMMANDS There are 4 commands introduced in HSB which relate to the Multipage Shopdrawingss. Run the command hsbinoutput\shopdrawing\new Shop drawings\shop drawing add multipage. 3 SHOP DRAWING ADD MULTIPAGE Command Line "HSB_SHOPDRAW_ADDMULTIPAGE" Run the command hsbinoutput\shopdrawing\new Shop drawings\shop drawing add multipage or select the following icon on the Toolbar. When a style hasn t been defined in your drawing yet, an alert dialog box will pop up and ask you to import a style, select OK. (standard styles have been made) 2009 hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 1 of 18

2 The Import standard styles dialog box will appear and you have default styles to choose from, Metric CM, Metric M, Metric MM panel, Metric MM, Metric Japan. Fig02 Select a style or multiple styles and select OK. (In this case select the hsbabbund DE style) IMPORTANT: the standard styles are saved in C:\Program Files\hsbSoft \hsbcad 2009+\Support. In case you have custom made styles made for you, you can save these drawings in C:\hsbCompany\Support, then they will appear in this dialog box. Example of custom made styles hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 2 of 18

3 The Shop drawing dialog box will appear and the selected style will automatically appear in the style pull down menu. Select the entities (Type of Entity to select depends on the type of Multipage Style) you want to shop draw, then right click and pick a point in your drawing where you want your shop drawings to appear hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 3 of 18

4 Here is an example of an Individual type Multipage Shopdrawing : For a demo on how to use Plot Viewports and Batch Plotting, please watch this video hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 4 of 18

5 3.1 SHOP DRAWING DIALOG BOX Select or import a Style to add to the drawing. Select to enable generation of Plot Viewports, required for batch plotting. Layout name (made in Paper space) to launch the plot viewports. Sorting catalogs. Fig STYLE Select a style you want to work with. (In this case select hsbabbund DE). Import standard hsbcad styles Select this if you want to import a new standard style, the Import standard styles dialog box will appear, you can make your selection. Import from DWG File You can import a specific style from another drawing. 3.3 PLOT VIEWPORTS Generate Select this if you want to create shop drawings which can be batch plotted or viewed in specific viewport. (make a separate Layout in paper space), the viewport placeholder which will be generated is dependent from the first viewport found in the designated layout. Horizontal offset Enter a value for the horizontal offset. Vertical offset Enter a value for the Vertical offset. Vertical & Horizontal offsets control the placement of hsbcad Plot Viewports around Multipage Shopdrawings, however the hsbcad Plot Viewports can be moved or adjusted after insertion using standard AutoCAD commands. Layout name Select the layout (in your paper space environment) you want your drawings to fit in. This has to be made before hand. This layout needs to contain a valid AutoCAD viewport, the information (size & scale) from it will be used to create hsbcad Plot Viewports around each Multipage Shopdrawing hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 5 of 18

6 3.4 SORT CATALOG Catalog You can sort your shop drawings according to a few criteria. Select the triple dots (Fig 03) and the Shop drawing Sorter dialog box will appear. Select criteria on the right hand side of the dialog box and move this to the left hand side of the dialog box by selecting the triple arrows, save this entry by selecting the Add button, enter an appropriate name and select OK. This will be stored in the catalog. Fig 05 Criteria that have been selected. Fig04 IMPORTANT: When the Pagebreak is selected you will get 1 length per shopdraw viewport, if you don t select pagebreak you will get a continous drawings in the shopdraw viewport hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 6 of 18

7 Fig05 Select Ok and select the entities to shop draw, enter a point in your drawing you want your Shop drawings to appear. Fig06 Result of the shop drawings in Model space. If entities are modified after the shop drawings have been created it might be necessary to regenerate the shop drawing again. With the Batch plot plot viewports command you can plot these all in one go hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 7 of 18

8 4 BATCH PLOT PLOT-VIEWPORTS Command Line "HSB_SHOPDRAW_PLOTVIEWPORT_BATCHPLOT This command is used to fire the batch plot routine, you can only use it if you have created a hsbcad Plot Viewports during the generation of Multipage Shops (notice the checkbox Generate for this in the screenshot above Fig05). When this command is fired, the Automatic Plotting dialog box appears, allowing the user to select the number of copies, and whether to plot to paper or an electronic file. You can also select a plot device, but other plot settings are controlled by the Acad Layout tab you selected in the "Plot Viewports" sections of the "Add Multipage" dialog. Select all the viewports in your Model space you want to print. For a demo of how to use Plot Viewports and Batch Plotting, please watch this video. The Batch Plot-Viewports dialog box lets you select a type of plot (hard copy or file) and a plotter. Other settings are controlled by the Page Setup of the layout Tab referenced when creating the MP shops Fig hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 8 of 18

9 5 SHOP DRAWING STYLE MANAGER Command Line "HSB_SHOPDRAW_STYLEMANAGER" This command of course gives access to a dialog where you can create, edit, and otherwise control the Multipage styles present in the active drawing. Multipage Styles (MP) follows the rules of AutoCAD Architecture Styles so they can also be accessed, edited, and transferred between drawings using Architecture's Style Manager. Styles in current Drawing Style Administration Import MP Styles from another Drawing file The standard administration tools are for creating, edit, delete, rename or copy MP Styles. Most of these functions are obvious, let's look at the dialog you get when you Edit a Style: Fig hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 9 of 18

10 5.1 MULTIPAGE STYLES There are 7 main types of MP Styles as of this writing. They filter the selection set and pass different sets of entities on to the TSLs defined in the Rule Set. For the most part MP Styles are closely tied to the TSLs they use and they'll be created by the TSL author. There are settings in each style however which can be useful to end users. This drop-down selects between the types, as discussed below. None of the sample styles utilize this setting. The Rule set is the heart of the MP styles. It passes entities and tools to different TSL s. Here you select previous created Layout blocks and adjust dimension settings for each layout Fig9 Layout overrides let s you define rules which activate secondary layouts COLLECTION ENTITY This is not supported yet as of this writing ELEMENT This is not supported yet as of this writing GROUP This is not supported yet as of this writing INDIVIDUAL SHOP DRAWING This refers to individual Beams, or Gen Beams, or SIPs MODULE SHOP DRAWING This of course refers to Stick Frame Modules, which are assemblies of beams hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 10 of 18

11 5.1.6 SUBASSEMBLY This type works with Stick Frame Subassemblies. Subassemblies are groups of entities (beams, TSLs, panels ) which are linked by an S-Type TSL TRUSS ENTITY This is not supported yet as of this writing. 5.2 EDIT RULESET The Rule set is the heart of the MP styles. It passes entities and tools to different TSL s. A ruleset is a list of assignments on which entities (beam, sheet or panel) or tools (birdsmouth, drill etc) are passed to a certain shopdrawing tsl. The TSL will be executed to analyze the geometry and determine dimpoints, draw tables, or do other custom tasks. Fig10 These define what tools and objects are passed to each TSL in the Style. They have to be closely coordinated with the TSLs cited, and for the most part need to be created by the TSL author hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 11 of 18

12 Each row is a rule in the set. 1. Category 2. Type 3. Subtype 4. Tsl Off screen to right 5. TSL Catalog 6. TSL Execute Keys 7. TSL Maps Fig11 1. Rule Sets are divided into Categories. The Category defines what type of entity (Beam, Group, Tool) the rule acts on. 2. Each Category is further divided into a Tool Type. The range of Types available varies by which Category is selected. 3. Some types have subtypes. The range of Subtypes available varies by Category. Types and Subtypes are mostly used to fine tune rules acting on Tools. 4. TSL s are linked to each rule, and they can be called with 5.TSL Catalog Entries, 6.TSL Execute Keys, and 7.TSL Maps if desired hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 12 of 18

13 5.3 EDIT DEFAULT LAYOUT By a layout definition you can set the viewports and dimension styles of a shop drawing. It contains a nested block definition where the child block contains the viewports (add by HSB_SHOPDRAW_ADDVIEWPLACEHOLDER). This lets you select a Layout Block, and edit it's settings. Fig hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 13 of 18

14 1. Select default Layout Block. 2. Select additional Layout Block. 4. Stereotype Overrides are used to override the Dim style and Text settings for specific dimensions. 3. You set Dimension Style, Text Style, Text Size and Dimension offsets per layout. Fig13 1. Select your Layout Block, previously created. The button will exit you to Model Space to select a Block, so you'll want to have one inserted and handy. 2. You can select for additional Layout Blocks if the style requires it. Layout Blocks added here will draw for each MP instance. See Layout Overrides below for adding rules to control Layout Blocks. 3. Dimension Settings cite an AutoCAD dim style, text style, text size, and some dimension offsets hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 14 of 18

15 5.3.1 LAYOUT View placeholder Fig14 The parent block contains linework, logos, standard text and attributes which can be queried from the entity (Length, material, etc, see hsbsettings-> available block definitions). A layout definition also holds the dimstyles to be used and their stereotypes. You can also define overrides of the standard layout if a certain rule applies to the properties of the selected entity. A stereotype is the name of a dimension line in which different tools can publish dimpoints to group them together. This is done by the tsl of a tool or entity.the stereotypes which are available should be found in the description of the related shopdrawing tsl. A stereotype can have priority against other sterotypes. Sample: to locate a birdsmouth on a beam you would also need the start and end of the beam which could have been defined by cuts. Both, cuts and birdsmouth then need to contribute their dimpoints to the same stereotype. Example: Consider a standard rafter with top & bottom cuts & a birdsmouth. We might define a Multipage Style for the rafter which dimensions the birdsmouth & end cuts below, and does an overall dimension above. By assigning different Stereotypes to the detail dimension string below & the overall dimension above, different Dimension Styles and/or Dimension settings can be applied to the two strings. For instance you could have the bottom detail string draw it s text in cumulative fashion with the text perpendicular and below the dimension string while having the overall dimension above draw text parallel & above the dimension line hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 15 of 18

16 6 SHOP DRAWING ADD NEW VIEW Command Line "HSB_SHOPDRAW_ADDVIEWPLACEHOLDER" This command is only used to create HSB_VIEWPLACEHOLDER objects, used in the creation of MultiPage Layout blocks. There is no dialog box, when the command is fired, the user picks a point to define the rectangle of the HSB_VIEWPLACEHOLDER in model space. 6.1 MULTIPAGE LAYOUT BLOCKS Multipage Layout Blocks require at least 2 components. 1. Title Blocks -- These are standard Acad blocks, with linework and HSB attributes. The HSB attributes are set by the MP engine for each shop drawing, for a list of available attributes click the "Title Block Settings" button on the General tab of HSB Settings. 2. View Placeholders -- These are created with the a new command (read about new commands), placed in Model space, and their properties are adjusted to define the view orientation and scale. 3. Layout TSLs -- These aren't required, but some MP styles utilize TSLs which are actually a part of the Layout Block definition TITLE BLOCKS You'll probably start creating a new Layout block by deciding on a final print size, and plot scale. With this information you can size a Title Block and create appropriate borders and such with standard AutoCAD commands. I recommend drawing the linework 1:1, at the desired page size then scaling up your graphics according to the desired plot scale. This will let you set the View Placeholders to 1:1 scale, which makes the occasional manual addition/tweak much easier to do, and makes determining final plot scale much simpler. There are a few HSB specific Block Attributes which can be used to push data to the final shop drawing: List of genbeam shop draw attribute tags: HSB_QTY HSB_MATERIAL HSB_GRADE HSB_NAME HSB_LABEL HSB_SUBLABEL HSB_SUBLABEL2 HSB_WIDTH HSB_NUMBER HSB_SLOPE HSB_GRH HSB_GRF List of additional beam shop draw attribute tags: HSB_LENGTH HSB_HEIGHT HSB_EXTRPROFILE 2009 hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 16 of 18

17 List of additional panel shop draw attribute tags: HSB_PANELLENGTH HSB_PANELWIDTH HSB_PANELTHICKNESS HSB_EPS HSB_EPSMAT HSB_SKINBOTTOM HSB_SKINTOP HSB_SKINBOTTOMMAT HSB_SKINTOPMAT HSB_MPNR HSB_FLIP In addition to these you can use the standard title block attributes such as HSB_PROJECT which are listed under the Title Block Settings in HSB Settings. Once you have assembled the appropriate linework & attributes combine them into a block. This block will be nested into the final Layout Block VIEW PLACEHOLDERS To create a View Placeholder, you'll use the toolbar button or the command line version, "HSB_SHOPDRAW_ADDVIEWPLACEHOLDER". You're prompted for an insertion point and the object is created. Resize it appropriately with it's grips, and edit it's properties with the OPM (Properties bar) to customize it for the desired shop drawing. I recommend that you try to keep scaling limited to 1:1 and do all the scaling in the final plot, in the dialog box below I'd need to change the property "Size Mode" hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 17 of 18

18 View placeholder Selected. Edit these properties to get appropriate display. Location of final line work 2009 hsbsoft 21 okt. 09 Page 18 of 18