Plane section entity - Automated general arrangement drawings

Plane section entity (PSE) is new object in SCIA Engineer. It enables users to prepare fully customized 2D drawings.

General arrangement drawings (Automated General Arrangement Drawings ) are a special type of technical drawings. They can be generated using Plane section entity and Drawing view. Predefined drawing styles can be used for easier creation of those drawings. It is also possible to create some automatic content – dimensions, labels.

Plane section entity generates two types of view:

• Model view,
• Drawing view.

In order to be able to create Drawing view, drawing rules (including use of all needed managers and editor) for projection of a section, 2D Dimensions and to insert Drawing view to paperspace, the GA Drawing functionality must be selected in Project properties.

2D Linegrid and Dimensions style manager do not require this checkbox to be selected.

Abbreviations:

• Automated General Arrangement Drawings  - General arrangement drawings
• PSE –
• Plane section entity
• AL – autolabel
• AD – autodimension

Settings for Automated General Arrangement Drawings  functionality

Functionality

Automated General Arrangement Drawings functionality is available only for some types of structure: Truss XYZ, Frame XYZ, General XYZ.

Then Automated General Arrangement Drawings functionality is displayed in the list with functionalities.

Creating of Plane section entity

SCIA Engineer contains Plane section entity. The Plane section is extended by Model view and Drawing view.