About Detail Options
While configuration file options control the design environment for parts and assemblies, Detail options add additional controls to the detailing environment. The Detail options determine characteristics like the height of dimension and note text, text orientation, geometric tolerance standards, font properties, drafting standards, and arrow lengths.
Default values are provided for the drawing options, but you can customize and save various versions for use in other drawings. The file that you specify in the drawing_setup_file configuration option establishes the default Detail options for any drawing that you create during a Creo Parametric session. If you do not set this option, Creo Parametric uses the default Detail option values. You can retrieve the following sample Detail options files from the <loadpoint/text> directory with the following names:
• iso.dtl ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
• jis.dtl JIS (Japanese Institute of Standards)
• din.dtl DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung / German Institute for Standardization)
The Detail options settings is saved with each individual drawing file. Values are saved in a Detail options file named <filename>.dtl. The location of this file is determined by the pro_dtl_setup_dir configuration file option. You can specify the complete path to the directory that contains your drawing option files. If you do not specify the path name using this configuration file option, Creo Parametric brings you into the default setup directory.
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• If a Detail option is set to default, and if a configuration file option exists with the same name the Detail option refers to the configuration setting. If you set the Detail option to something other than default, the configuration option setting is overwritten within the drawing environment only.
• The environment settings supersede configuration file settings ( > ). Therefore, if you seldom use a particular command, such as the drawing grid, you could use the configuration file option to keep it cleared and then set the environment as needed.
• The Detailed Drawings Help lists all the Detail options in alphabetical order. Each topic contains the following information:
◦ Detail option name.
◦ Brief description and notes describing the Detail option.
◦ Default and available variables or values. All default values are followed by an asterisk (*).
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