Placing and Clipping a Drawing Automatic Scaling

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Placing and Clipping a Drawing — Automatic Scaling

Place and clip a drawing on the drawing sheet by defining a frame.

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In the new pull-down menu:

Edition

Edit DSG

"Clip" Frame by Scale

In the old pull-down menu:

DSG

Place Drawing

"Clipped" Drawing - Auto Scaling

$image\ebx_1693072387.gif$ NOTE The drawing to be clipped must be placed in its entirety anywhere on the screen, on or outside the drawing sheet. After clipping, you can erase, or leave it outside the drawing frame area where it will not be plotted.

Two frames are involved in the clipping operation:

Source frame - defines the area of the original drawing to be clipped

Target frame - defines the area on the drawing sheet in which you place the clipped area of the drawing.

The system offers you two options for placing clipped drawings. You can choose to define the source frame followed by the target frame or vice versa.

$image\ebx_-726553584.gif$ HINT Define the source frame first, when the area to be clipped must be exact but there is plenty of room on the drawing sheet. Define the target frame first when the amount of room on the sheet is limited.

Specify which frame (source or target) you wish to define first.

Source Frame

Define the area of the drawing to be clipped by specifying the first and opposite points of the source frame on the drawing. If you want to revise your selection, press Enter to specify a new location.

Specify the first and opposite points of the target frame on the drawing sheet. When you specify the first point, the source frame is displayed on the screen. A rectangle in the proportion of the source frame is stretched between the first point and the cursor position. You can relocate the first point by pressing Enter.

The part of the drawing included in the source frame is drawn to fill the target frame at a scale determined by the relationship between the sizes of the two frames. The drawing is framed by a broken line.

Target Frame

Follow the same procedure described for the source frame, but define the target frame first and then the source frame.

$image\ebx_1693072387.gif$ NOTE When defining the source frame at least one of the points must be within the source drawing frame.

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