1.Purpose:

to extract a top view of a robcad cell in dxf format

2.How to create

2.1 create a template (this is not necessary)

* open an empty component in robcad with a convenient name: for exemple a0_scale1_1* go to the drafting module in robcad and click on drawing new

* fill in the following:

* then choose the sheet size and the scale

fill in a letter and press enter,then you can

choose

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* save the component and close it.

* create under the library root /usr/Robcad/LIBRARIES the following directory: DRAWING_TEMPLATES

move the component a0_scale1_1.co to this directory

* now you have created a template which can be used in the drafting module

2.2 create a drawing from a top view

* open your cell from which you want to create the view * go to the drafting module and click on drawing new by template and accept

depending on what you have selected under the template he opens a new window with the template settings (if NONE is selected, you have sheet size A4h and scale 1:1)

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* You have created now the drawing dr1

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* create now the view you want by clicking on new, by position:

5000 is maximum

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You have created now a view in the drawing dr1

You have to zoom

(alt and left mouse button)

to see something

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*After zooming

fit the view

this can be solved by adapting this under:

adapt this till it fits in the window

click in the red square

The scale you select here, is the scale from the dxf drawing

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After scaling and recentering it fits

s 0/v c c /t e s t /p n 053/A _S H O W C A S E M O D E L S _S T E V E N /E X P L A N A T I O N _R O B C A D /D R A F T I N G _D X F /d r a f t i n g _i n _r o b c a d .s c * And now creating the dxf file.

click first on Format to define which format you want

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c Click now on Drawing outputs an

d giv

e in a name and click accept, it starts, depending on cellsize and Wire/HLR/HLD it can take from a few seconds to 2hours. So i

f it is big, do it durin

g the night

The dxf can be found under the cell.下载本文