Drawing frame

General

A drawing frame (drawing sheet) containing a title block and borders for drawing you will need in the schematic mode. Maybe you would like to fix the title of the drawing, drawing date, author, last modified or similar.


Example of a drawing frame. Click image to enlarge.


Do so by handling a frame like a component. Add/delete lines, bend them, insert text and so on. You can edit any part of the drawing frame as you like. Save it again like a component under a new name. In TARGET 3001! please find several drawing frames like components by the use of the "Quick select". Look for "Search" and enter "frame".

Find a frame like a component

Edit text in the frame

The text part of a drawing frame might look this way:

If you for example would like to change the font style, please drag a highlighting square over the complete text area and press key [e] for "edit".

Tick the box "Text" and say OK. Now select from the various options within the "Change Texts" dialog:

This might be the result:

If you want to adjust the font height and width, do it within the same dialog.

Place a text variable into a field to the drawing frame

You would liek to add the file name into a field of the drawing frame so that it is displayerd always in the current form in your drawing frame?

That is how to proceed. :

The file name you desire, is variable. You really do not want to enter it by hand. This shall happen automatically so that any change of the file name is recognized here. Where such a text shall appear you define by the use of the the keys [Shift]+[2] and clicking the mouse. At this position the text starts. At the same time the "Text Options" dialog opens. At "Function" you select from the Drop-Down-Menu the option: File name. Press OK, done.

The dialog for text edition. Hier wählt man als Textfunktion die Variable: Dateiname

Bild: Der Dialog zum Editieren von Text. Hier wählt man im Drop-Down-Menü als Textfunktion die Variable: Dateiname

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Edit outline of the frame

Every part of the frame outline can be touched and treated (modified) like any drawing element

If you want to round the corners for example, please highlight both neighbored lines and click the black little touchpad with the right mousekey. Now select the "Round Corner" menue line.

Now select a 50 mil diameter rounding and this is the result:

Save it again

Please zoom out until you see the complete frame in total. Highlight it by the use of a catch-window. Now hover the mouse to the absolute zero and press key [y] for placing the handle cross at cursor position. Again highlight the complete frame. Now press key [x] for exporting the frame to a desired library.

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