Drawings and Layers

Composite drawing

Composite drawing enables the collection of raster, map, or vector documents into a single composite document. This allows for the selection of individual drawings within the composite document, enabling changes to their parameters, positioning in common world coordinates, and their visible areas (viewports).

• Background drawings
  • Raster Drawing Orientation Parameters (CALS, TIFF)
• Overlay / Vector drawings
  • Rotate Shape
  • Vector Snap
• Map drawings

Layers

• Global Layers — System wide Layers available for each Vector Drawing inside any Composite Document.
• Local Layers
• Layer Security
• Redline layers — Each user has it's own redline layer - created automatically by the system. Redline layer and tools can be used for drawing annotations.

External Content - URL Template

Working with Object Selection

Working with Void areas (cut outs)

External documents

HDC can display external files like MS Office documents in viewer. If you add one as attachment to object then HDC will convert it's content and display it in special PDF viewer.

Move and Scale/Align background drawing

Notes with text and images

Convert Attachment to Drawings

Quick measure tools

Spot and Object Area Report

Drawing Guides

• Object "spot links" - best practices
• GUIDE: working with Viewer Edit toolbar
• Guide: Adding object overlay with SuperEdit (Overlay Import)
• Guide: Working with Popup Properties on Drawing — Popup properties are small windows with object properties that appear when a mouse is hovered over drawing elements.
• Guide: Creating Object Overlay on Drawings — This guide will show how to draw various entities that create Object Overlay on top of raster drawings.
• Guide: Manual import of raster drawing — This guide will show you how to add new raster drawing to HDC manually by user interface.
• Using Verify Spots to fix drawing

Predefined shapes: Arrows and Balloons