Using Drawing Capabilities

• You need a Drafting license
• You must open your electrical document in an electrical workbench.

This section explains how to take advantage of the following Interactive Drafting capabilities:

• Creating a drawing of the flattened harness using the various representation options.

• Creating a line type standard and applying it to protective coverings to give a different aspect to these components in your drawing.

• The Wire Annotation command in the Interactive Drafting workbench allows you to create a wire annotation on bundle segments and connectors.
• Integration with Generative View Styles (GVS) allows you to store drawing options in the drawing document and no longer in the flattening parameters. It gives you access to dress-up capabilities in the Drafting workbench when working on Electrical Harness Flattening documents.
  Note that GVS only works on Electrical Harness Flattening data, that is to say, after extraction from the 3D data.
• Creating dimensions for technological features such as electrical harness, which offers gains in efficiency. For a drawing created with a flattened document, you can have dimensions only on bundle segments and protective coverings.
• The Interactive Drafting workbench also lets you define and store text templates in catalogs to be used when creating texts associated to technological objects:
  • Creating Text Templates.
  • Storing Text Templates into a Catalog.
  • Annotating Drawings using Text Templates.

Drawing Update Command Disabled

The Drawing Update command is not enabled after a modification of parameters in the 3D document, if this modification concerns one of the following attributes displayed in Text Templates, Wire Annotations or Report of the drawing:

• External reference
• Reference designator
• Sub type
• Reference part number
• Layer number
• Taping angle

You can change a geometrical attribute (i.e. diameter, length) in the 3D document, then the Update command becomes available.

In the context of the new Automatic Generation command, these attributes are updated with the Update Dress-up command.
Note that the Update Dress-up command only applies to the text templates automatically generated.