PDMS version 11 PDMS Freebies User Guide (Intel NT)

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Contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................... 1-1
1.1 1.2 Contents of this Guide................................ ................................ ................... 1-1 Terms and Conventions ................................ ................................ ................ 1-1

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Installing PDMS Freebies.............................................................................. 2-1 Configuring Multi-Print ................................................................................. 3-1 Using Multi-Print.......................................................................................... 4-22
4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Select Drawings to Print ................................ ................................ .............. 4-22 The Print Tool................................ ................................ .............................. 4-33 Preview the Drawings................................ ................................ .................. 4-33 4.3.1 The Print Preview Form ................................ ................................ 4-33 Other options................................ ................................ ............................... 4-44 4.4.1 The Output Destinations ................................ ............................... 4-44

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Introduction
This guide explains how to install and use the PDMS 11+ PDMS Freebies applications on an Intel NT workstation. The prerequisite for the installation is that PDMS 11.2, 11.3 or 11.4 has already been installed and it is assumed that the installation will be made by someone familiar with both PDMS System and Draft Administration.

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Contents of this Guide

This guide provides the infoamtion on how to install the PDMS Freebies release. The application suplied is Multi Print. Multi-Print is a utility available for the Draft module that allows you to submit multiple plots to a printer.

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Terms and Conventions

The following terms and conventions are used in this guide, to describe what action to carry out. Term Click Description Place the mouse cursor over the specified point, then quickly press and release the designated mouse button. If no button is specified always use the left-hand mouse button. Double-click Enter Quickly click the left-hand mouse button two times over the designated object. Type text into the specified dialogue box and press the Enter (or Return key).

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Installing PDMS Freebies

You have been supplied with a CD. After opening this and double clicking the setup.exe file you will be presented with the following screen;

Press the Next> button to continue the install; If required, set the destination directory by pressing the Browse Next> button to start the install process. button and then press the

Once the install has been completed, you will see this screen;

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Press the OK button to finish the install. Once the copy is completed the following steps need to be followed to integrate PDMS Freebies into the PDMS environment; Add the following lines to the pdms.bat file just after the line which calls evars.bat set pdmfreebies=C:\CADCENTRE\PDMS_Freebies call %pdmsfreebies%\PdmsFreebies.bat (Note that the paths may be modified to reflect where the applications have been installed and where the PdmsFreebies.bat file is located) These applications use the Cadcentre Plot Viewer to display the produced drawing, and which has been supplied with this release. The PdmsFreebies.bat file has an entry for calling this program. You will have to modify this line if you utilise Plot Viewer from a different location. The installation of PDMS Freebies is now complete, for details on configuration see chapter 3. Now start PDMS and enter the Draft module via macro files.

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Configuring Multi-Print
The application places a new icon on the main Draft form. This form is controlled by the file %PDMSUI%/DRA/GEN/FSYSTEM. A modified version of this file is included with this software. The default version of FSYSTEM will function correctly with PDMS Versions11.3 and 11.4, however if you wish to run at PDMS version11.2 you will need to utilise the supplied file FSYSTEM_112 in place of the default FSYSTEM.

The defaults file %PDMSUI%/Dflts/DRA-MULTI-PRINT This file contains the search rules used on the Multi-Print form. Each line contains three pieces of information separated by a semicolon: The first piece is the description The second piece is the Draft element that we are searching for. The third piece is the attribute to be tested.
--- Drawing Search Options --- Display text; Element Type; Element Attribute Drwg Name;DRWG;NAME Drwg Date;DRWG;DATE Drwg Author;DRWG;AUTH Rev Number;REVI;RVSN Rev Desc;REVI;STEX Rev Date;REVI;RVDT

The application takes the search string entered by the user and scans for all database elements whose attribute fits the rule. Any number of rules can be created and any attribute can be used including UDA s.

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Using Multi-Print
The print tool is a facility that enables you to make a multiple drawing selection and submit them to a printer queue. The advantages over and above the standard print tool are; Multiple plots Number of Copies Ability to Collate button on the main PDMS Draft form.

To access the print tool, press the

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Select Drawings to Print

The Print tool has a Search and Browse facility identical to that on the Edit form. The search tool functions by looking for all those drawings that match a given string for a particular attribute. The Draft Administrator sets the search attributes but the method used is t the same for all of them; Enter a search string in the Search field. Select the attribute to be studied from the drop-down list and press the Go button.

Any found drawings will be shown in the Drawings list. The description used for these drawings is usually the PDMS Draft name. You can change this by using the menu available from the Drawings list by clicking the Right Mouse button within this list. You can choose to display the Drawing Number or Line Number as alternatives to the PDMS name. The Sheets owned by the drawing will be listed below the Drawings list. Once you have displayed some drawings, you can display the sheets owned by each drawing by clicking with the Left mouse button on the relevant drawing from the Print

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List. The list will be expanded to display the sheets, which you can then select or deselect individually. If you deselect a selected drawing or the last selected sheet then the sheets for that drawing will be removed from the list.

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The Print Tool

If you wish to select all of the sheets for a selected drawing use the pop-up menu available from the Print List. Click the Right mouse button within the Print list and a menu will appear; see Fig 4.1.1 Select>All Shts for ce Select>All Shts Deselect>All Shts Select all of the sheets owned by the current selected drawing. Select all of the sheets for all of the drawings shown in the Print List. Deselect every selected sheet in the Print List.

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Preview the Drawings

If you wish to preview the selected sheets before you print them, press the Preview button. The Print Preview form will be displayed which will enable you to view each selected sheet in turn.

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The Print Preview Form

To first sheet in the selected list will be displayed automatically. To view the next in the selected list, press the button. To view the previous sheet in the selected list press the button. To hide the form, use the menu option Control>Close or use the top-right close form button.

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Other options
Printer Queue Selection The selected drawings will be send to the Default printer unless you choose otherwise, by selected the relevant queue from the Printer drop-down option list. If you do not wish a drawing to be sent to the printer but wish a plotfile to be created instead, then uncheck the Printer box. In this case, the File box will be checked automatically. See Fig 4.3.1

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The Output Destinations

Plotfile When a drawing is submitted to a printer, the drawing is first plotted to a PDMS format plotfile but this is usually deleted. To keep this PDMS plotfile, check the File box. The location of this file is set by the environment variable %PDMSUSER%. You can however, choose a different location for the plotfile by pressing the Browse button. The Browse form will be displayed, which will allow you to select a directory path name.

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To select another directory, use the Look in drop-down option list. This list shows all of the directories that exist below the directory shown in the first line of that list. The list below shows the contents of the selected directory. To move to the directory that owns this directory, then press the button.

Once you are satisfied with the selected directory, press the Use button. The Browse form will close and the name of the selected directory will be placed in the File text box. You could, of course, type the name of the required directory directly into the File text entry box. If you do not wish to select a directory from the Browse form, then just press the Cancel button. Number of Copies To print more than one copy of the selected drawings you need to adjust the quantity shown in the Number of copies box. To do this, either type in the value required, or use the up and down buttons to raise or lower the value. Collate If you wish to print the selected drawings into groups, then check the Collate box. To submit the drawings To print your selected drawings press the OK button. To close the form, press the Cancel button

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