Set Mask Box

In a replication network, intellectual property can be protected by defining a deny box in the 3D model, as described in Replication filtering settings. As a result, designers working on satellite sites see a black box in shaded work views—they cannot see the model objects that are enclosed by the box and should not try to design anything inside the box.

A document mask box allows similar filtered replication to be applied to all the drawing views and work views in a document.

On the Plant Modeller document editor's Home tab, in the Drawing group, Settings > Set Mask Box opens the Edit Document Mask Box dialog where you can define a mask box for the active document. As a result, any objects that are located inside the mask box will not be visible when the document is opened on a replica server.

After selecting the Set Mask Box option in this dialog, you can define the mask box in the following ways:

You can enter the min–max XYZ coordinates of the mask box.
You can click Pick to pick the start point and the end point of the box from the 3D model.
You can select a deny box from the menu, if available.