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Active only when the current environment is a drawing.
For more information see the Plan View and Layout Tools topic.
•Take Offs - Show the Take Offs tool. This tool assists in counting items in the drawing.
•Add Boundaries from Text - Add Location Boundaries using a text entity to derive the location name. Once you select a text entity the Boundaries form is displayed allowing you to set the remainder of the properties.
•Draw Backbone - ENT only. Draw a polyline representing the backbone in the plan view space. Then assign a number, cable type, source and destination ports and add that to the database.
•Draw Cable - Drawing a polyline representing a cable from a location boundary to another location boundary or from placed equipment to placed equipment. Cable information is then created in the Cables table.
•Populate Cables - Automatically places arched cables from location to location as defined in the Cables table.
•Draw Prewire Cables - Draw a polyline representing prewire cables and add the data to the Cables table marking the IO as PREWIRE. Later, you can assign cables to those PREWIRE entries.
•Populate Equipment - Automatically place SysNamed equipment in the drawing in the Location Boundaries if found.
•Place Equipment - Place unnamed plan view equipment in the drawing. Preferably after Location Boundaries have been defined.