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Drawing > PlanView and Layout Tools > Location Boundary

Commandline: pw

 

Explanation

Define geometric boundaries for locations important to the design. For example we would want to know where on the drawing the Machine Room is but not necessarily the kitchen (unless part of our cable ends up in the kitchen).

 

 

Prerequisites

1.Source and destination Location Boundaries placed in the Plan View space.

 

Related Topics

How To: Place a Location Boundary

 

Operation

 

1.Start the tool.

2.Select a text entity with the name of the location to pre populate the dialog.

3.Set the location type and geometry type.

4.Draw the boundary

5.Done. Lather , rinse, repeat.

 

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Dialog Options

•Name - The location name. Either from the selected entity or entered directly or selected.

•Location Kind - Select the level of the location that you are drawing a boundary for.

•Automatically Nest Locations - Searches the drawing for containing boundaries and formats a nested location string. The creates an entry in the Locations table if not found.

•Boundary Entity - Boundaries must be a closed polyline of some sort.

•Show Name in LineType - Creates a new LineType with the name of the location and renders boundary entity with the new LineType.