FINDOUTLIERS command

Finds any outlier outside of the valid area.

BricsCAD Lite; BricsCAD Pro; BricsCAD Mechanical; BricsCAD BIM

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Description

Finds entities positioned at extreme coordinates outside a specified area. These entities are often hard to detect and can make it difficult to manipulate the view because it depends on the total extent of the drawing.

Note: Invisible entities and entities on invisible or locked layers are detected and temporarily highlighted but cannot be moved or deleted.
Note: Entities on a frozen layer are detected but cannot be temporarily highlighted, moved, or deleted.

Method

The command opens the Find Outliers command panel.

  1. 2D mode
  2. 3D mode
  3. Settings
  4. Show valid area
  5. Inspect Outliers
  6. Results
  7. Back to Settings
  8. Finish
Note: The options within the FINDOUTLIERS command line are identical to the options in the Find Outliers command context panel.

2D mode

When this mode is active, the valid area is simplified to a 2D rectangle, defined by the X and Y dimensions.

Note: The Z dimension of all entities is not taken into consideration.

3D mode

When this mode is active, the valid area is a 3D box, defined by the X, Y, and Z dimensions.

Settings

Valid area dimensions
Sets the valid area of the drawing. The entities outside this area are considered to be at extreme coordinates and are listed in the Results section of the Find Outliers command panel.
Note: In the Command line, the change Dimension option allows you to set the valid area dimensions.

The default value for the X, Y and Z dimensions is 100000.

Note:
  • Click the Sync all dimensions button () to sync or unsync all dimension.
    • When the link button is On and you modify one dimension, the other dimensions change to the same value.
    • If the dimensions have different values and you turn On the link button, the Y, respectively the Y and Z values change to the same value as X.
  • The valid area is graphically displayed in the model space by a transparent green box.
  • The unit used depends on the template you are working in. For example, if you are working in the Default-mm template, the unit for the valid area is mm.
  • In the Command line, the Keep all dimension identical option defines if all dimensions will be modified at once.
  • Click the magnifying glass icon () to zoom to extents.
Area
Sets the area directly on the drawing Model Space, by picking the points for each coordinate.
Note: In the Command line, the draw new Area option allows you to define the area by picking points for each coordinate.

Show valid area

Enables/Disables the display of the valid area.

Note: In the Command line, the change Show valid area option allows you to Enables/Disables the display of the valid area.

Inspect Outliers

Displays the Results section.

Results

Displays the outliers found in the drawing. You can select the outlier by clicking it. The entity is then selected in the drawing. After selecting an outlier, you can press the magnifying glass icon () to zoom in, the move icon () to Move to valid region origin or in any other place, or the trashcan icon () to delete it. Also, you can undo the move or delete actions by pressing the undo icon ().

The same options are available in the context menu opened by right clicking the selected outliers.

Note: To temporarily highlight invisible entities and entities on invisible or locked layers, double-click on them.
Note: After moving an outlier to the valid region, the list of outliers will be updated accordingly.

Outliers that lie close to each other are clustered as a group. When selecting a group of outliers, all the elements in the group are selected at once to zoom in on them, move, or delete them. If there is only one group present, the entities are listed individually, and not clustered in a group.

Note: You cannot modify the selected entity while the command is running.

When selecting outliers, a widget appears in the drawing area. The widget gives you control to zoom in () to the entity attached to it or zoom out () when clicking it again.

Note:
  • Click the widget of a cluster to zoom to the extents of the cluster. The zoom widget of the cluster disappears and individual widgets get displayed for the individual outliers in the cluster.
  • If you select more than 1 cluster in the command panel list (for example: 2 clusters, or 1 cluster and 4 individual outliers) and use the action menu to zoom to them, widgets are only displayed for the entire clusters, not on the level of the individual outliers in the cluster.
  • If you select one cluster in the command panel list and use the action menu to zoom to them, all individual outliers of the cluster have a widget.
  • Selected visible outliers that do not belong to a cluster have a widget.

Back to Settings

Goes back to the Settings section.

Note: In the Command line, the Back option allows you to go back to Inspect Outliers section.

Finish

Closes the Find Outliers command panel and keeps the selected outliers.

Finish and reset view

Closes the Find Outliers command panel and restores the view (zoom level, camera position).

Note: In the Command line, the option is finish and Reset view.