Activate PMI M-View

Access: Open this function from the following location:

  • Select Tools > PMI > Activate PMI M-View from the menu bar.

Activate a previously created M-View to re-orientate the display to the plane of the selected M-View. All new PMI is now created in this plane.

The M-Views dialog is displayed showing the list of M-Views currently available in this file:

Select the required M-View and press OK.

Working with M-Views

The following example shows how to use M-Views when creating PMI.

  1. Pick an appropriate face.

  1. Click the Rotate to Plane icon from the toolbar. The picked planar face is displayed parallel to the display plane (screen).

  2. Click the M-View tab in the Tree pane and create a new M-View.

  3. InvokeInvoke (for more, click Access at the top of this Help topic) the Activate PMI M-View tool. The M-Views dialog is displayed:

  1. Select the new M-View you just created and click OK.

From this point onwards, the projection of this M-View is the default projection for all new entities, for example:

The transparent plane, which appears when creating a PMI dimension, is on the same plane as the picked face . . .

which means that dimensions are created in the plane of the face.

Dimensions cannot be created for entities that are not on the same plane as the active M-View. For example, if you pick the circle indicated below, you cannot created the dimension as the transparent plane is parallel to the face (with 2 holes) that was used do define the M-View (notice that the active M-View in the PMI Dimension dialog also confirms this).

In this case, to create the new dimension, you can either exit the PMI Dimension tool and activate a different PMI M-View from the M-Views dialog, as described above, or change the projected plane from within the PMI Dimension dialog by selecting the appropriate M-View from the dropdown list:

You can now create the dimension:

In this case a radial dimension is created:

Changing the M-View to YZ (Active UCS) creates a different dimension; in this case a linear dimension:

  1. Double-click the M-View in the tree pane. This re-orientates the display to the plane of the M-View and also displays all other entities associated with the M-View:

The following display appears:

In this case, the lower dimensions are not in the plane of the red face (or parallel to the face). These lower dimensions can be excluded from the M-View by right-clicking on the M-View in the tree pane and selecting the following option from the popup menu: Exclude Not-Fully Projected PMI from the M-View.

Approve the change and double-click the M-View again to observe that the lower dimensions are not displayed, as they no longer belong to this M-View.

 

Some functionality may be dependent on the product package. Contact your Reseller if you require a license.