Editing an already created Detail view (detail view circle to be precise) using iLogic or creating detail view using sketched circle.

[sohaib.as01]

Hello everyone, hope you all are having a wonderful day.

I am currently assigned with a task of automating drawings for my client, so I am learning iLogic as I am proceeding towards my goal.

Currently the problem where I am stuck is that I want to reposition my detail view circle as the scale and size of the drawing view changes.

I would like to know if there is a way for that? I have searched everywhere and couldnt find any similar problem, except that there is a code available which lets you create a detail view from a selected drawing view, which I dont want to do as it generates another set of problems for me and will make the process lengthy.

The general logic with which I am working is that I have placed all the views on my sheet, dimensioned and all, and they just need re-scaling and relocating as the size of the model changes (which I have automated using API), this applies to detail view as well.

Another option I am thinking is if there is a way i can create my detail view circle using a predefined sketched circle that always centers in the geometry, and changes size accordingly, I want to take the detail of, this way the iLogic code can totally be avoided.

please see attached pic for further clarification

Any help will be very much appreciated 🙂

Thanks 🙂

[johnsonshiue · Accepted solution]

Hi! I am not 100% sure about iLogic. But, here is the manual workflow to do that. Right-click on the detail view -> Attach -> pick a vertex from the view. After that, the detail view will always go with the detail view.

Many thanks!

[cadman777 · Accepted solution]

One thing I'd like to be able to do is use "Attach" on the detail circle @ midpoints of features, as well as workpoints.

That way you can anchor your detail circle to the midpoint of the feature you want to center around.

Another thing I'd like to be able to do is "Edit" the shape and to control the size of the circle or rectangle with add dimensions, like when you make a Cut-Away view boundary. This is just basic drafting that should be a default part of the software.

If we had these functions, we we would be able to easily automate our drafting with iLogic by creating relationships between the features and the detail view boundary. This is just basic stuff!

[sohaib.as01]

Man...you are a life saver...I was beating my head around this with programming and what not yet the solution was just to simple. Huge thanks for the reply 🙂

[sohaib.as01]

Oh well, thankfully it does have the attached feature which is now accomplishing what I need. But yeah the detail view circle/rectangle should be controlled by sketched circle instead of a random circle centred at desired-random point.

And a fairly straight forward snippet should be their in the API to create or reference one

[DRoam]

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@cadman777 wrote:

Another thing I'd like to be able to do is "Edit" the shape and to control the size of the circle or rectangle with add dimensions, like when you make a Cut-Away view boundary. This is just basic drafting that should be a default part of the software.

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I agree. Currently, there are a couple ideas you can vote for to get this functionality:

• Control Detail View with Sketch 
• Change shape of IDW Detail View (not quite as specific, but on the same topic and has many more votes)

These ideas together with their duplicates/similar ideas have several hundred votes, going back as far as 2012. Hopefully we can get this soon.

[cadman777]

OK, thanx!