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This section covers the GRIP statements used to produce drawings. Drawings can be created, edited, verified, deleted, and renamed. As drawings are created, they are automatically saved. Use the GPA &CURDRW to retrieve a specified drawing.
When a drawing member view name or drawing work view name is specified, it needs to be appended with an "@" character to denote it as a drawing member view or drawing work view. Specification of the view name this way is actually a short cut since the actual view name contains an integer following the "@" character (for drawings that integer is zero). Optionally, you can enter the full name in order to assure uniqueness of member view names (drawings can have more than one instance of a given view on a single drawing).
An example of a drawing member view name that was in some way derived from the model view, TOP, is "TOP@3". To specify the name of the model view, "TOP" should be used. To specify the name of the drawing member view, either "TOP@" or "TOP@3" can be used. The full names of all the member views for a given drawing can be retrieved using DRAWV.
In NX, when the drawing view is the work view, the layout which contains the drawing is called !DRAWING. This layout name is read only and cannot be used to set the current layout.
When running interactive GRIP, functions that create, retrieve, or require the presence of a drawing are only allowed in the following modules: Gateway, Drafting, Valisys, and Genconnect. Those functions are also available in GRIP Batch.
When drafting objects are created on a drawing in GRIP, the objects associated to the drafting object (the dimensioned objects) must be objects that are on the drawing.