Editing
Associative Dimensions:
You can globally
associate all dimensions with their referenced geometry. That
means you can import an unintelligent drawing using dxf for example
and associate all of its dimensions with the geometry. Simply
go to FK Dimension /GLOBAL/, /ASSOC/, /RETROFIT/, YN all. All
of your dimensions are now associated with the geometry. CCD highlight
shows you what geometry is associated. Subsequent changes to either
the geometry or the dimension will be reflected in its associated
element. Move geometry or change the radius of an arc, and the
dimension will reflect the change. Change the dimension, and the
geometry will move or change.
Circles:
Select any
circle with the right mouse button until the following menu appears:
Perform any
of the listed functions on the circle. Note the message is appropriate
for a circle only. The case shown is for a circle that is a member
of a temporary group. That is why it has Remove from Group
as one of the options. (Requires Mouse Advanced Button Functions
to be enabled.)
Lines:
Select any
line with the right mouse button until the following menu appears:
Perform any
of the listed functions on the line. Note the message is appropriate
for a line only. (Requires Mouse Advanced Button Functions to
be enabled.)
Notes:
Select any
note with the right mouse button until the following menu appears:
Select Edit
Note and the following panel will appear.
Evaluate and
change any of the existing note parameters and see the change
by selecting the button Visualize. If you do not
want to keep any of the changes, select Cancel,
or keep the changes by selecting OK. (Requires
Mouse Advanced Button Functions to be enabled.)
Creating:
CADAM Cursor:
Creates temporary
construction points on elements. Also, if you move your cursor
over two elements in succession, it provides intersection points
of the two elements, normal projections from points, and other
points that can be selected to create new geometry.
The example
below shows the intersection points of the line and the circle
and the end and center points of the line simply by moving the
cursor first to the circle then the line. The round target points
can be selected for use as if they were permanent points:
Note that
Display Tips are also on. Display Tips
gives information about elements that typically must be found
in FK Analysis
CADAM
Cursor, Display Tips and Preselect
Highlight are available from the View pull-down
menu:
Centerlines:
Centerlines
can be quickly added to circles and ellipses by going to FK Line,
/CNTR/, and selecting the circle or ellipse. Crossing
centerlines are automatically placed. You can key in a different
angle or you can Indicate to change the lengths of the
crossing centerlines symmetrically.
Cut and Copy between sessions:
You can cut
and copy CCD elements between CCD sessions by using the CCD Clipboard.
Ensure the CCD Clipboard option is selected in the Edit
pull-down menu. Select the desired geometry using the Select
menus or icons (Select, Select Window, Select
All, or Select Special which gives you all of the FK
Group /TRAP/ options). Select Copy from the Edit
pull-down menu to copy the elements to the CCD clipboard.
Once
copied to the CCD Clipboard, CCD geometry can be pasted to another
CCD drawing by using the options Paste or Paste Special.
Paste Special allows you to paste the geometry in a specific
location and allows you to decide on what layer geometry should
be pasted. Bring up a second CCD session and select Paste
or Paste Special from the Edit pull-down menu.
Offset:
Key in multiple
offsets with either offsets of differing sizes or as many as 10000
identical offsets. Go to FK Offset. Indicate a
side or YN offsets on both sides of the element. Either
key in 5 unique offsets separated by commas or key the number
of identical offsets followed by the @ sign followed by
the size of the offset, e.g., 25@.1 will produce 25 identical
offsets of 0.1 width.
Grouping:
Create a temporary group:
Depress the
left mouse button until the 
cursor
appears. Drag a rectangle and all of the elements inside the
rectangle will become a part of the temporary group. All normal
group operations such as translate, scale, erase, and many more
now become available to this group. (Requires Mouse Advanced
Button Functions to be enabled.)
Group operations:
The following
group operations are available at any time by depressing the right
mouse button in any open space until the following menu appears:
(Requires
Mouse Advanced Button Functions to be enabled.)
Panning
and Zooming:
Call existing drawing:
Normally when
bringing up an existing drawing, it is displayed at window coordinates
0,0 and size = 1. If you would prefer a drawing be brought up
at different location and view, simply store that in the Window
SET 1 position. To store up to 7 distinct window set positions,
first set your window to the position you would like to save,
and go to the Window SET toolbar.
Select the
set window icon then select any of the 7 window
icons. Only the first window set will be used when the drawing
is called. Any of the stored postions can be recalled by selecting
the appropriate window number icon at any time.
Pan:
Press the
center mouse button down until this cursor 
appears.
Continue to hold down the mouse button and pan as you move your
mouse. (Requires Mouse Advanced Button Functions to be enabled.)
Pan:
Press the
Shift key and depress cursor keys to pan window.
Zoom:
Zoom the window
by spinning the wheel on a scroll mouse.
Zoom:
Press the
Ctrl key and depress the up and down cursor keys to zoom
the window.
Zoom:
Press the
first and second buttons of a three button mouse to zoom the window.
Print/Plot:
Plot Current:
You can quickly
plot either what is on your current CCD window or create temporary
plot data (TPD) to adjust the parameters of the plot. Plot
Current differs from Print and Print Wdo-TPD
in that it plots to the currently defined plotter (that may or
may not be a Windows printer), and you can define a TPD to be
used for the current plot only. Print and Print Wdo-TPD
always print/plot to a Windows printer.
Select Plot
Current in the File pull-down menu. The following panel
will appear:
Select
Temp Plot Data to bring up the dialog that allows you to
change the parameters of the plot including the plot height and
width dimensions, scale, load point, etc. When satisfied, YN accept
temp plot data and the plot will be automatically submitted. If
you select Window TPD, what you see in the current CCD
window will be plotted. In all cases, the plot will go to the
plotter defined in the Plot Setup (also available in the
File pull-down menu).
Print Current Drawing:
You can quickly
print either what is on your current CCD window or use any plot
data you may have defined. Print is a shortcut method for
creating CCD plots. Print will always go to your Windows
printer and not to any plotter defined by Plot Setup. Go
to the File pull-down menu and select either Print
or Print Wdo-TPD. Print will print whatever is in
plot data (if defined), and if plot data is not defined, it will
print the equivalent of a FK Window /ALL/. Print Wdo-TPD
will print what is currently displayed on the CCD window. It automatically
creates the TPD (temporary plot data) for you. As with most Windows
applications, selecting these options from the File pull-down
will bring up the Print properties panels, which will allow
you to select a printer and to define properties associated with
that printer.
Selecting
the equivalent toolbar buttons for Print 
and Print Wdo-TPD 
will bypass this panel and will print the drawing to the currently
selected printer using the currently defined properties.
General:
Exporting CCD Images to Other Applications:
You can copy
selected CCD images to other Windows applications. You have a
choice of exporting these images either in color or in monochrome.
Select the Edit pull-down menu and you will see
the following panel:
Here,
you have the choice of selecting the CCD Clipboard or the
standard Windows clipboard. The CCD Clipboard allows you to copy
actual CCD geometry from a CCD drawing to another CCD drawing.
The Windows clipboard is for applications other than CCD, and
the image is a bitmap (raster) rather than actual CCD elements.
To choose the standard Windows clipboard, make sure that the CCD
Clipboard is not selected.
Next
choose whether you want the CCD images to be exported in color
or in monochrome by either selecting Monochrome or ensuring
it is not selected (color). Now you have the choice of either
selecting CCD elements using a rectangular trap box (Select),
selecting all of the CCD elements displayed in the current window
(Select Window), or selecting all of the elements that
can be displayed by going to a FK Window /ALL/ (Select
All).
Now
you can start another application and import the CCD image using
the normal Paste command. The following shows a CCD image
pasted as both a monochrome and a color image:
FK
Box:
Double click
with the left mouse button and the following virtual FK box will
display:
Select the
desired FK button. The WDO FK always appears exactly
where you double click.
Mouse
Advanced Button Functions:
Go to the
Options pull-down menu and select Device Settings...
You will see
the following panel:
Ensure that
the Advanced Button Functions box is checked. The
Press delay (100-1000) parameter defines the length
of time you need to hold down the mouse button before the optional
function becomes available. The factory setting is 400 milliseconds.
Experiment with the setting to see what works best for you.
Object Linking and Embedding:
Files, including
Microsoft Word files or even pictures of sail boats can be embedded
in a drawing with a link to the application that can modify it.
These objects become a part of the actual CCD model.
To embed a
file go to the Edit pull-down menu and select Insert
New Object. The following panel will appear:
Select Create
from File. It will give you the following panel:
Here you may
Link to a file or embed a file. If you choose to
link a file, when you double click on it in CCD, it will bring
up the application that created the file. Any changes you make
to the file (if saved) will be reflected in the CCD drawing and
will be reflected in the original. If you choose not to link
a file, it will be embedded. An embedded file when double clicked
in CCD will bring up the application and allow you to change the
file, but it will not necessarily change the original file. Selecting
Browse from the above panel brings up the directory browser and
allows you to choose a file. CCD also allows you to break a link
meaning changes to the original file will not be reflected in
the CCD drawing.
Overlays, Views and Layers:
When
you have a drawing with Overlays, Views and Layers, you can press
the right mouse button in any open space, and you will see the
following panel:
Moving
your cursor over Active View produces the following
sub-panel where you can choose to activate a different view if
desired:
Moving
your cursor over Active Layer produces the following
sub-panel where you can choose to activate a new layer if desired:
Moving your
cursor over Active Member produces the following
sub-panel where you can choose to activate a new overlay member
if desired:
Right-clicking
on a member of an inactive view, overlay, or layer produces the
following option.
Selecting
the Activate Context option activates the view,
layer and overlay member of that element, allowing you to combine
up to 3 possible activation operations into a single operation.
Properties:
Press the
right mouse button in any open space until the following panel
appears:
Select Properties.,
and the following will appear:
This panel
allows you to manage many of the properties of a model.
Selecting
the Views button gives the following:
Parameters
associated with views can be easily evaluated and modified using
this panel.
Choosing the
Layers button provides a convenient
way to manage all of the properties of layers:
Choosing the
Overlays button brings up the
following panel:
Choosing the
Classes button brings up the
following panel:
Choosing Style
1 and selecting Change brings up the
following panel and allows you to change the Style 1 modal setting.
That means all elements selected after the change will reflect
the change in Style 1 type.
Choosing Style
2 and selecting Change brings up the
following panel and likewise allows you to change the Style 2
modal setting.
Choosing Widths
and selecting Change brings up the following panel
and allows you to change the modal line width setting.
Choosing Color
and selecting Change brings up the following panel
and allows you to change the modal default color setting:
Selecting
Color Table brings up the
following panel and allows you to change the system colors.
Selecting
Width Table allows you to
define different widths by bringing up the following panel:
Thumbnails (details):
To see a thumbnail
of every detail in a drawing, go to FK Detail, /THUMBNAILS/, and
all of your details are displayed, as in the following:
Select the
desired detail and choose either /USE/ or /DITTO/, and apply the
detail as you normally would.
Thumbnails (drawings):
To see thumbnails
of drawings when you open them using the File Open. dialog, make
sure you check the Update/Create Preview on Save box in
the File pull-down menu.
The following
shows a thumbnail of a drawing that has been saved.
