Expand Details

Create an enlarged detail of a part of the drawing.

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This function allows you to take a portion of the drawing inside a user-defined circle or rectangle, and enlarge (magnify) it by a specified factor. The magnified detail is then placed in a special magnified layer. This means that all dimensions and measurements of the magnified layer are correct, provided the magnified layer is the current layer.  

The measurements and dimensions of the detail are only correct if the magnified layer is the current layer.

Procedure

  1. You are asked:

You can define the area to be shown as a detail in either a rectangle or a circle. Click Yes for a rectangle and No for a circle. In this example you are using a circle.

  1. The program asks:

You can choose to enclose the selected area in a circle. Click Yes or No.

  1. If you click Yes, you are prompted to:

Indicate centre of circle

  1. You are prompted to:

Indicate point on circle radius

  1. Now specify the area to be included in the detail.

  1. You are prompted to:

Specify the magnification factor of the detail by typing in the required magnification and clicking .

  1. You are asked:

If you want to join the magnified detail circle to the original circle, click Yes.

  1. You are asked:

Specify if you want to put the detail on a new layer, or place it on an existing layer with the required magnification. You can't place the detail in an existing layer that doesn't have the correct magnification factor.

In this example, click Yes to create a new layer called "Detail x 2".

  1. Type in the layer name and click .

  1. Indicate the position of the detail, which will be displayed as a highlighted selection at the cursor position.

  1. Move the detail to a suitable place in the drawing and click. The detail is placed and the following message displays.

  1. Click OK to close the message.

  2. An arrow is drawn between the detail and the area of interest.

If the entities in the area of interest were drawn in a ByLayer pen, the detail uses the magnified layer's ByLayer pen in the Layer Settings. If you want the pen and line style to be copied to the detail faithfully, you must create the original entities in normal pen and line styles.