Panes

On the Drafting tab, the Panes group contains the following tools.

Visualization and Changes

Select Drafting tab > Panes group > Visualization and Changes to show or hide the Visualization and change control pane. In this pane:

  • Visualization control allows you to check which model objects will be shown and which will be hidden in published documents by showing or hiding each set of objects and by applying visualization status colors to them. If an object has an incorrect visualization status, you can assign it to the appropriate status.

  • Change control allows you to check which model objects have been recently changed or are completely new by applying modification status colors to those objects. You can then decide, for example, whether to annotate or hide some of those objects. After you have made the required changes to the document, you can save the current state. The next time you open the page, you can again check which objects are changed or new.

Switching to another tab hides this pane and removes status colors from the drawing views.

Use status colors for visualization and change control – Select this option to display objects using colors that indicate their status, provided that the applicable statuses are selected in Visualization control and Change control. If this option or the applicable statuses are not selected, object colors depend solely on the Color Style settings of each view.

Note: This is an on-screen function that does not affect published documents.

Visualization control

You can select which model objects to show or hide when the document is published.

To view the current visualization status of objects, select or clear the following options as appropriate:

  • Visualized – Select this status to see objects that are drawn normally in published documents. If Use status colors… is enabled, these objects are green.

  • Nonvisualized – Select this status to see objects that are not drawn in published documents. If Use status colors… is enabled, these objects are blue.

  • Transparent – Select this status to see objects that are drawn as transparent in published documents. If Use status colors… is enabled, these objects are yellow.

If some objects have an incorrect visualization status, click the Manage Set tool for the correct status to assign the objects to that status. You are prompted to select the following:

  • View to use for picking – Select the view to use for picking the objects whose status you want to change.

  • View – Select the drawing views where you want the status change to be applied.

  • Discard earlier selection if any, do not add to it – This option is shown if you are adding objects to 'Nonvisualized' or 'Transparent'. Select this option to replace the existing set of objects with the new set. If not selected, the new objects are added to the existing set.

Change control

This section shows how many model objects are changed or new within the space shown in the drawing views on the active page, counted from the last time you saved the state.

  • Changed – Shows the number of objects that have been modified or moved within the space after the last save. If Use status colors… is enabled, these objects are purple.

  • New – Shows the number of objects that have been created or moved into the space after the last save. If Use status colors… is enabled, these objects are orange.

If there are new objects, you can click Nonvisualize new in all views to remove them from all drawing views. (This is equivalent to adding them manually to the 'Nonvisualized' status.)

To clear the current record of changed and new objects, click Save State. This sets the 'Changed' and 'New' statuses to 0 objects, and the document starts tracking area model changes from that moment onward. If Utilize change control (default settings & reminders) is enabled in Settings, saving the document or exiting the document editor prompts you to save the state of all pages in the document, as described in File menu.

Note: The change control record is included in the document files. Saving the document also saves the current record, while canceling document changes also cancels the Save State actions.

Views on current page

This pane lists the drawing views in the active document and shows whether each view has a content rule, transparency rule, or hidden lines.

Select one or more drawing views from the list to manage them using the following commands:

  • Content Rule – Allows you to create a Content Rule for the selected drawing views.

    A content rule is a query-based filter that defines which objects are shown in a given view. The query can specify, for example, that only piping objects and equipment are shown in the view. Content rules can be created for work views and drawing views.

  • Transparency Rule – Allows you to create a Transparency Rule for the selected drawing views.

    A transparency rule is a query-based filter that defines which objects are shown as transparent in a given drawing view. The query can specify, for example, that Hull objects are shown as transparent.

  • Remove Hidden Lines – Removes hidden lines from the selected drawing views.