BIM Typed Plan Editor dialog box

The BIM Typed Plan Editor dialog box allows you to edit the existing typed plans.

Edit drawing customizations

  1. Home
  2. To rule definitions
  3. To style definitions
  4. Add entity customization
  5. Entity customizations list

Home

Moves the cursor to the main user interface page of the panel.

To rule definitions

Allows you to add and edit rules.

You can create a rule pressing the button. After creating the rule, the button offers you another 3 options:

  • Filter
  • Sub rule
  • Entity customization
Note: When creating an entity customization, you can add a sub rule for a rule already added.

To style definitions

To add a style definition, press the button.

Note:
  • When selecting a color, the Select Color dialog box will appear.
  • When selecting a line type and pressing Load…, the Load Linetypes dialog box will appear.

Add entity customization

Creates a new entity customization.

Entity customizations list

Displays all the available drawing customizations.

From the context menu next to the entity customization, you will be able to:
  • Clone: Creates a copy of the selected entity customization.
  • Remove: Removes the selected entity customization.
  • Rename: Edits the name while the text is being highlighted. Press Enter to save and apply the changes.
Note: Click on the entity customization to edit ply customizations.
  1. Section result customization
  2. Center customization
  3. Symbol customization
  4. Add ply customization
Section result customization
Determines how the different pieces of geometry, generated by sectioning the entity with a section plane, are displayed.
Click on the Open the material dialog icon (1) to open the Physical Materials dialog box.
Center customization
Determines the appearance of the center of planar entities (center plane) or linear entities (center line).
Symbol customization
Determines the appearance of 2D symbols that are added for the entity and controls the source of those symbols.
  1. Select file…
  2. Create new
  3. New symbol
Select file…
Opens the Set external symbol source dialog box.
Create new

Opens the New external symbol source dialog box.

The section result customization and center customization display a series of controls for which you can choose values from the drop-down list.

The diagram above illustrates how you could control the visibility and customization settings of an entity with the Drawing Customization tool. Notice that the section plane is aligned with the Blue square with Red outline.

  • Green outline represents Background, which is essentially the elevation outline of the cut object.
  • Red outline represents Intersection Boundary, which traces over the cut area.
  • Blue hatch represents Intersection Fill, as it shows the area of being cut by the section plane.
  • Orange hexagons hatch represents Elevation Fill, which refers to the area bound by the elevation outline (see Background).
  • Pink outline represents Hidden Lines, as it is below the blue hatch.
  • Yellow outline represents Cut away geometry, as it is above the section plane.

Appearance Override allows you to specify how an entity's hatch appearances (section and elevation) would appear, in place of the default hatch patterns already defined within the Physical Materials library. When you create any new Physical Material entry in the "In Project" category as part of the Drawing Customization template, your desired configurations are independent of the drawing project and stored in the template instead. You can later apply this template to other project models as you wish.

New symbol
Creates a new symbol layer.
Add ply customization
Creates a new ply customization.

Select the ply customization to edit its properties.

  1. Add default function
  2. Physical Materials
Add default function
Adds a default function for the ply customization.
Physical Materials
Opens the Physical Materials dialog box.

Edit tag customizations

  1. Tag customizations list
  2. Add tag customization

Tag customizations list

Displays all the available tag customizations.

From the context menu next to the tag customization, you will be able to:
  • Clone: Creates a copy of the selected entity customization.
  • Remove: Removes the selected entity customization.
    Note: The default tag customizations cannot be removed.
  • Rename: Edits the name while the text is being highlighted. Press Enter to save and apply the changes.
Note: Click on a tag customization to edit its properties.

Add tag customization

Creates a new tag customization.