Apply Drafting Templates Dialog - Buttons

Access: Open this function from one of the following locations:

Select Sheets > Create Sheet > Create Sheet from Template from the menu bar.
Select Create Sheet from Template on the popup menu in the Drawing Tree (right-click the Drawing in the Drawing Tree).
Select File > Export > Export To Drafting from the menu bar.

After invokinginvoking (for more, click Access at the top of this Help topic) the function, the Apply Drafting Templates dialog is displayed; some of the dialog options that are available when invoking from Export to Drafting are not available when invoking from Create Sheet from Template.

In this dialog, the system presents the views included in the selected template (in the Template Layout pane on the right) and asks you to select a model view (from the Model M-View Tree on the left) to be attached to those views.

Dialog in Export > To Drafting:	Dialog in Create Sheet from Template:

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Dialog Buttons

Some of the dialog options that are available in Export to Drafting are not available in Create Sheet from Template.

Expand or collapse the Model M-View tree(s).

Open the Cimatron Explorer to browse for the appropriate file.

Expand or collapse the Template view tree(s).
Example:Example:

Template view tree - expanded. The Collapse button is displayed:	Template view tree - collapsed The Expand button is displayed:

Expand or collapse the Apply Drafting Templates dialog to hide/show the Symbol Automation checkboxes. These checkboxes enable you to include ID Number and/or Label of Holes (LOH) information in the drawing, as shown in the examples below:

Example 1:Example 1:

Default dialog display - collapsed. The Expand button is displayed:	Dialog expanded to show the Symbol Automation checkboxes. The Collapse button is displayed:

Example 2:Example 2:

An example sheet showing the ID Numbers around a view; as a result of selecting the appropriate Symbol Automation checkbox:

Assign or unassign Model M-Views.

Delete the model in the Model M-View pane. Available only after selecting a model. Deleting a model also deletes its drafting template.

All Model Trees

Dropdown list:

All Model Trees	Display all the Model M-View trees.
Unassigned Model Trees	Display only the unassigned Model M-View trees.

A toggle button to switch from 2D to 3D section views in the Template Layout pane. In the Template Layout pane, select a section view to enable this button.

	2D section views2D section views are currently displayed in the Template Layout pane. Press this toggle button to display 3D section views.
	3D section views3D section views are currently displayed in the Template Layout pane. Press this toggle button to display 2D section views.

Delete the Drafting Template. Available only after selecting a drafting template. It is possible to delete a drafting template only when the main template is selected. If multiple items are selected, items that are not the main template will not be deleted.

Add Similar Sheet (Export to Drafting only). Available only after selecting a sheet. Duplicate the selected sheet including views, arrangement, and anything else the template stores in that drawing, at the bottom of the list of sheets in the drawing.

Show All Templates

Dropdown list:

Show All Templates	Displays all the Drafting templates.
Show Current Templates	Display the currently used drafting template.

Quickly clear all the Symbol Automation checkboxes. This button is displayed when the button is pressed (see above) to expand the Symbol Automation checkbox section.

Set the first symbol settings for the drawings (in the Symbol Automation checkboxes). This button is displayed when the button is pressed (see above) to expand the Symbol Automation checkbox section. This button is only displayed when none of the checkboxes have been selected; once a checkbox is selected, the button is grayed out.

Example 1:Example 1:

The button is displayed when all checkboxes are empty:	The button is grayed out when a checkbox is selected:

Display the Online Help for this dialog.

Open Drawing(s) After Creation

Select this checkbox to open the drawing file when the Export to Drafting operation has finished.

If the options for open the drawing(s) and opening the report automatically (see Expanded Dialog Parameters below) are OFF, a dialog is displayed showing the file(s) that were created during the Export to Drafting operation; see Automatic File & Report OFF below.

ExpandExpand or collapse the Apply Drafting Templates dialog to show/ hide addition parameters. See Expanded Dialog Parameters below.

OK. Save the Drafting file and exit the dialog.

The button is unavailable until there is at least one sheet with views that is fully assigned per drawing.

Sheets and views that do not have a model assigned are removed. Unassigned views are displayed separately in the Model tree.

To open the Drafting file, browse the Cimatron Explorer and open the appropriate file.

Cancel. Exit the dialog without saving the Drafting file.

Expanded Dialog Parameters /

In the Parameters area of the expanded dialog, the following options are displayed:

Dialog expanded downwards:Dialog expanded downwards:

This image below shows the additional parameters that are displayed when the dialog is expanded downwards. The image shows the dialog that is displayed from the Export to Drafting function; some of the dialog options that are available when invoking from Export to Drafting are not available when invoking from Create Sheet from Template.

View's Scale

Choose the method of scaling the drawing. The following options are available:

As view's scale

Scale the view according to the current scale ratio.

Best fit

Scale the view within the boundary box of sketches created under the view.

Note: In most cases, you will create drawings using the Best Fit scaling option. In order for it to work properly, it is recommended that you do the following when saving a template:

When preparing the drawing that you will use for the template creation, activate each view and use the Sketcher to create a rectangle that will represent the maximum size you want the view to have. See the example drawing above.
Also, note that any set of views that will have a similar scale in the template will always have a similar scale in the resulting sheet.

For example, in the drawing above, if views 1, 2, and 3 (the 3 larger views) are all built with a scale of 1:2 and view 4 (the smaller view on the lower right of the sheet) is built with scale 1:5 in the template, when a sheet is created using the template with the BEST FIT option, views 1, 2, and 3 will all have the same scale. For example, they can all have a scale of 1:8. It will be determined by the largest view so that they all fit in their frames) while view 4 may have a different scale.

Show/Hide

Choose which data to hide or show on the drawing; BOM, TOH and/or Sheet Data.

Report

Select report viewing options:

Open Report Automatically

If selected, open the report automatically (see View Report explained below).

If the options for open the drawing(s) (see above) and opening the report automatically are OFF, a dialog is displayed showing the file(s) that were created during the Export to Drafting operation; see Automatic File & Report OFF below.

View Report: Display the log file which summarizes all the messages relevant to the exported models. This may include a list of files that were not created and/or a list of models that were not updated during the export operation.

If the option Open Report Automatically is selected (when the dialog is expanded - see above), this log file is displayed automatically when the export operation has finished.

The log file, created every time the export operation is executed, is saved in the following folder:

...\ProgramData\Cimatron\Cimatron\2026.0\Data\Export_to_Drafting.log

Create a Single Drawing for All Models

Select this checkbox to create a single drawing for all the models in the Model M-View Tree pane of the dialog. If this checkbox is selected, only one drawing is shown in the Template Layout pane.

Example 1:Example 1:

Checkbox not selected - Multiple drawings are created (one for each model in the left pane):

Example 2:Example 2:

Checkbox selected - A single drawing is created (irrespective of the number of models in the left pane):

Use Same Visibility as in Model

Select this checkbox to keep the same visibility status as in the model. This keeps the hide/show status that exists in the source file when the view was created. This is relevant for simple and section views.

When this checkbox is selected, all views are created as "Same Visibility as in Model" views, except for M-Views and Detail views.

This option also appears in the Part Filter dialog.

Automatic File & Report OFF

If the options for open the drawing(s) and opening the report automatically are OFF, the following dialog is displayed showing the file(s) that were created during the Export to Drafting operation:

Open Files	Open the created drawing(s). The image above shows one created drawing file, however the list can show multiple created drawing file names.
Show Location on Disk	Open the Cimatron Explorer in the folder where the first file was created and highlight all the files that are in the list in that folder.
Close	Close the dialog.

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