Prefix | Description | ||||||||
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ToRight ToLeft InFront Behind Above Below |
These prefixes refer to the section in the appropriate direction. Note that if you specify the current section as "To the right of" another section for example, then that other section would be to the left of the current one. You would therefore use the ToLeft prefix to access the properties of that section. | ||||||||
Container | Refers to the container of the current section. | ||||||||
OtherSection | For corner cabinets, refers to the corresponding section with the same name in the other half of the cabinet (i.e. Main or Extn). | ||||||||
Xyz_Section | This will reference a section called 'xyz'. With this method, you can look at the properties of any section in a cabinet, e.g. carc_back_Section. | ||||||||
Section["xyz"] | Also lets you refer to a section by name. The difference is that "xyz" can be a formula that evaluates to the name of a section, e.g. Section["carc_" & "back"] | ||||||||
Cabinet Index VSection Index HSection Index Component Index |
Any component in any cabinet of the drawing can be uniquely identified using the four indexes:
The component & section name are not enough to make things unique - you need the VSection as well (main,extn) The four indexes above are consistent with the values exported in the tab file for reporting (MSEQ VSEQ HSEQ CSEQ - see the schema.ini). In addition there is a variable idfull available at component level which produces a unique 8 digit number constructed as mmmvhhcc That is, if id=3, idv=1, idh=22 and idc=4, then idfull = 00312204 This can be safely used for creating an 8 character dxf filename uniquely for machining. In the example above, the tab data for reporting on this component would also have MSEQ=3 VSEQ=1 HSEQ=22 and CSEQ=4 |