Creating articles and applying artworks

When you open an EngView file in Illustrator, the program lists all project's drawings in EngView Design Articles panel. For each of them, an article has been created automatically.

NOTE: You can change the article's default name: Click the name's box, and then type a new name that makes sense to you.

In Illustrator, the canvas area has as many artboards as there are drawings in the EngView file. Each artboard corresponds to the artwork for the front side of the drawing.

When you add graphical content to an artboard, it visualizes automatically in the EngView 3D panel — the artwork is attached to the article being visualized.

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Creating articles

You can create new articles in which to make combinations of the available front and rear artworks.

To create an article

1. (Applies to multiple-drawing designs) In the EngView Articles panel, select the drawing in which you want to create a new article.

2. In the EngView Articles panel, click Add New Article .

NOTE: In a drawing, you can create an article (1) by copying the artwork of an existing article or (2) without copying any artworks. For (1), select the drawing's tab, and then click New Article . The newly created article will not have any artworks selected for its front and rear sides — in their cells you will see <None>. For (2), select an existing article, and then click New Article . The newly created article will appear with the selected article's front and rear artworks. See the following pictures for examples:

Article 4 was created when the mouse pointer was on the drawing's tab. As a result, no artworks have been copied for its front and rear sides.

Article 4 was created while Article 3 was selected. As a result, the artworks for Article 3's front and rear sides have been copied to Article 4.

A new article record appears in the list.

3. To change the article's name, click the article name's box, and then type a name for it that makes sense to you.

After you have created the article, you proceed by assigning front and rear artworks for it.

4. To assign an artwork to the front side, click the artwork's cell in the Front column.

A list appears of the available artworks.

5. Consider your situation:

• To assign an existing artwork, click its name.
• To create and assign a new artwork, click New, and then in the dialog box that appears, type a name that makes sense to you.

Switching between articles in 3D

Switching between articles takes place in the 3D panel. You do not need to have any panel selected to switch between articles.

NOTE: If the project consists of a single structure, you do not need to have a panel selected to switch between its articles. If you are working with a multiple-part structure, in the 3D preview area, click a part. This makes available the Select Article button.

To switch between articles

1. In the 3D panel, click Select Article.

When you have a structure with more than one part, the Select Article button becomes available after you select any part in the>EngView 3D window.

A list of the available articles appears.

When you have a structure with one part, the Select Article button is available by default.

2. In the list, click the article that you want to apply.

NOTE: Clicking None Selected removes the current article from the 3D model, leaving the model without any article applied to it.

After you have switched the article, notice that in the EngView Articles panel the dot that indicates the currently applied article has moved to the newly applied article.

Creating artworks

NOTE: The following procedure explains how to create an artwork-carrying artboard in an article; it is not about adding graphics to an artboard.

To create an artwork

1. In the EngView Articles panel, click Front / Rear of the article to which you want to create a new artwork.
2. In the drop-down list that appears, click New.

The New Artwork dialog box appears.

3. In Name, type the name of the new artwork.
4. If you want to copy the artwork of the currently applied artwork, leave the Copy Artwork check box selected.

NOTE: In the brackets, you see the name of the artwork whose graphics the program will copy to the new artwork.

5. Click OK.

After you click OK, the following happens:

• A new artboard appears in the canvas and becomes the active artboard (highlighted in a black outline). The artboard carries the copied structure and its graphics (if you chose to have them copied). NOTE: Structural designs in the artboards for the rear sides is mirror structure to that in the front-side artboards.
• A new artboard record appears in the Artboards panel. Its name follows the format: drawing name.front(rear).artwork name.
• In the EngView Articles panel, the new artwork is selected in the Front/Rear column of the currently selected row. NOTE: If this article is currently visualized in the 3D model area, the newly created artwork will be immediately visualized.