topic Re: cropping embedded drawings in Documentation

cropping embedded drawings

Dave Brach — Fri, 19 May 2023 20:06:10 GMT

I drag a pdf drawing from my local folder onto a layout (say a survey or a strutural layout from another office). The I break the link in drawing manager so that when other people in my office open the .pln it is there. Then I crop the drawing. The next time I go back to that layout in Navigator, if I want to change the crop size (say make it larger) it does not work. Only the original crop remains. I can get the whole drawing to show up ("fit frame to drawing") easily enough, but cannot do a second crop.

Re: cropping embedded drawings

Lingwisyer — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:26:56 GMT

Rather than breaking the link, set it to manual update? Also, turn off "crop drawing to frame" for the inserted drawing as this removes anything outside the boundary resulting in the need for a file update if you enlarge the boundary, unless this feature changes functionality when you have broken a file link.

Ling.

Re: cropping embedded drawings

Barry Kelly — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 08:37:41 GMT

There is a new option now with cropping where it doesn't show the drawing if you expand the crop.
You will find there is a setting in the drawing options to 'Crop Drawing to Frame'.
The drawing frame will have a dotted perimeter.

Turn this off so it is back to "Manually Resize Frame' and the frame will have a dashed perimeter.

You can also right click on the frame and choose to 'Un-crop Drawing'.

Also as you stretch the frame wider, you should see in the middle an option to "Update to Frame'.
Click on that and it will reset the drawing to the frame.

Barry.

Re: cropping embedded drawings

Barry Kelly — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 02:12:30 GMT

Sorry I posted an image of the setting dialogue, but it appears to not be showing.
I seem to be having some trouble attaching images at the moment.
I will see if I can figure out what is happening.

Barry.

Re: cropping embedded drawings

Barry Kelly — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 07:45:23 GMT

Here is the image.

Barry.

Re: cropping embedded drawings

Dave Brach — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:02:03 GMT

for many years I would just set it to manual update as lingwisyer suggests, and no problems whatsoever. But this past weekend it just would not update, so that is when I tried the broken link to no avail. strangely, this morning the problem seems to have gone away, ie the "update to frame" is working as normal

Re: cropping embedded drawings

jl_lt — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 05:16:57 GMT

Hi Barry, do i have to do this for every layout? im finding this crop function and having to update each time we resize the frame incredibly annoying. Is there a global toggle to turn off this?

Re: cropping embedded drawings

Barry Kelly — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 08:46:10 GMT

I think you will find this is the default setting for all drawings by default.

So you will need to select all of the drawings and change the setting.

The good news is you can select the parent folder of the layouts in Navigator/Organiser and right mouse click to 'uncrop drawings'.

Or you can select multiple subsets at once.

Don't forget to change the default settings for the Drawing tool so new drawings you add to a layout are not also set as cropped.

Barry.