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Area Based ADP Administrator Guide 12 Series

Chapter: ABA Administrative Tools

Creating Template Drawings

To create a template drawing :
1. Select Create > Area ADP Library > Template Drawing from the main menu. This displays the ABA Template Drawing form.

2. Enter a suitable name for the template in the Name field.

3. Enter a suitable description for the template in the Description field.
4. The value for the Date is automatically set to the current date.
5. The Drawn By field is automatically populated with the login name of the user (this is taken from the operating system, not the base product).
6. If necessary click on Attributes button to make any changes. This displays the Drawing Template Attributes form.

Note The Drawing Template Attributes form uses a common layout available in the standard ADP application. For a detailed explanation, refer to the Drawing
Production User Guide.

The form is divided into tabs allowing for example the assignment of line styles and colours to the five line types (note line, leader line, etc.).

In the Intelligent Text system there are code words that are used to request the position of certain elements. These expand to a string providing the location
expressed in either the ENU (East North Up) coordinate system, as an absolute position (XYZ), in the Ship Reference System, or as a purely numerical output
(Numbers only).
To accomplish this, two attributes are provided for a number of elements in the DRAFT database (including DEPT, REGI, DRWG, SHEE, VIEW, LAYE). The setting of
these attributes determines the output format used by the positional code words, and are determined by the selection made in the Intelligent Text tab. The same
output format is used throughout a given layer.
For AVEVA Plant, the Ship Reference System is irrelevant and is therefore unavailable.

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Standard options of line colour and style are set explicitly by selecting system-defined settings from the colour, line-pattern and thickness drop-down lists. Clicking on
Pick allows a colour to be selected from colour palette. To select a user-defined style, tick the checkbox; the User-defined line styles form is displayed. Select a
Style Table and make a selection from the list of styles.
For the Hatch Pattern, you can assign a colour and either a standard fillstyle or a user-defined fill style. These are selected in a similar way to line colour and style.

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If any changes have been made, click Apply, then Dismiss.

7. To set the Function, click on the pull-down menu and select the appropriate function. This sets the function of the drawing, which is used by the drawing selection
mechanism to separate different template types during drawing creation. It is also used by the auto-numbering functionality.
8. Click OK when you are satisfied with the data in the Template Drawing form. The ABA Template Sheet form is displayed.

9. If required click the Copy as Variant button to create a variant of the master. This changes the current element to the variant. This is only available during a modify
phase.
10. Enter a suitable title for the sheet in the Sheet Title field.
11. Select the paper size for the sheet using the Paper pull-down menu.
12. Select the orientation of the paper (Landscape or Portrait). The paper size may also be entered manually (Width and Height).
13. Choose the Backing Sheet for the sheet, either Unset (no backing sheet), Reference (a BACK element in the project) using the pull down menu, or Filename (enter
the path of a .plt file in the field).
14. Add tasks you want performed by using the left arrow to copy them from the Tasks Available window to the Tasks Selected window.
If you want to modify the task, you may do so but only when it is in the Tasks Selected window. Do this by clicking the Modify Task button.

By default, a simple modify form is shown which allows you to modify the task parameters, but these are all treated as text. If a task function has a matching form it is
shown in place of the default, allowing modify forms to be created with more control and flexibility.
15. Once the sheet is configured correctly, click OK and the Template View form appears.

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