The ARCHIBUS Drawing Environment and Views

As you edit, create, and query asset symbols, the ARCHIBUS Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD or the DWG Editor accesses the appropriate view and if necessary, present the view's asset table and active fields. When working with drawing tools, you do not need to explicitly open views; when necessary, the drawing tool opens the appropriate view for you.

Setting the Current View

Several actions set the current view:

Using the ARCHIBUS Set Asset Layer command to activate an asset layer.
When you click ARCHIBUS/Asset/Set Asset Layer from the Ribbon, you choose an asset type, which also makes the asset type's default view the current view of the drawing tool. For example, use ARCHIBUS/Asset/Set Asset Layer to choose the EQ asset type, and you also open this asset type's default view -- the EQCAD view.
Selecting a drawing task from the ARCHIBUS Smart Client Process Navigator, or selecting a drawing task from the Process Navigator within theARCHIBUS Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD or the DWG Editor
These tasks will switch the focus to the drawing program. You can then set the appropriate layers by selecting a task, such as Set Equipment or Set Rooms.

Selecting an asset symbol for use with the ARCHIBUS/Asset/Edit Data and ARCHIBUS/Asset/Edit Data Multiple commands found on the Ribbon.
When you select an asset symbol for use with the ARCHIBUS Edit Data or Edit Data Multiple commands, the programs use the asset symbol's extended entity data to determine the asset symbol's asset type, and then activate this asset type's default view. For example, click ARCHIBUS/ Asset/Edit Data from the Ribbon, select a room asset symbol, and the ARCHIBUS Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD or the DWG Editordetermines that this asset symbol is of the Rooms asset type. It then presents this view's fields in the Edit Data dialog.

Changing the Current View

The current view continually changes as you select asset symbols for use with the Edit Data and Edit Data Multiple commands, run the Set Asset Layer command, choose tasks from the Process Navigator, and run the layer commands. The view set by these commands remains in effect until the next time you execute one of these commands.

For example, if you set the Equipment asset layer with the Set Asset Layer command, you load the Equipment view. If you next issue the Edit Data command on a room asset symbol, you activate the Rooms view shown in the Edit Data dialog.