

In the next screen, be sure you are in the 2D Wireframe visual style and then select the view angle that is needed.Ĭhoose the 2D Fast Track tab and select the Align View Cube tool.Īfter selecting the tool, your cursor will change to a pick box. When the Select Orthographic Drawing dialog box is displayed, either create a new Ortho drawing or reuse an old one as you normally would. The first step in the process is to open your model and select the Create Ortho View tool on the Home tab of the Plant 3D ribbon. Re-alignment is accomplished through the use of the “Align View Cube” tool found on the 2D Fast Track tab of the Plant 3D ribbon. ECAD Inc.’s Fast Track plug-in for AutoCAD Plant 3D has a tool that does this for you. Sometimes we need to re-align an angled section of our Plant 3D model when creating an Ortho view.

If you purchase the Expert version, you can export and import to Excel, where you could do a Find/Replace. You can change the name of the catalog here. This is the other place that references the catalog name. Select Engineering Items, and locate the CatalogId. Opening the spec shows us a tree of the tables at the left. The preferred free version is from SQLiteExpert. To fully change the name of the referenced catalog in the spec, you need to use a SQLite database editor. If all the parts are found after changing the catalog reference, you don’t need to modify anything else.Ģ. The screenshots below show the pspx file opened in 7-zip. In the simplest case, you can just change the path without changing the name used for the catalog.

The pspx is a zip file which may contain a catalog reference.

This will make sure that you get warned if parts are not found. The first step is to rename/move the original catalogs. This article will demonstrate part of the relationship between catalogs and specs.ġ. While this can be tedious, it is still possible.Įach spec consists of two related files, the pspc, and the pspx. Sometimes users want to rename the catalog they created, after having created specs.
