Enabling the Drawing Office Manager
The Drawing Office Manager (DOM for short) is active if you have checked the Use Drawing Office Manager box in the File Menu › Save Options › Save Settings option.
It allows you to keep track of each drawing: its description; the draftsperson drawing it; the department it is being drawn in; the paper size, scale and units used; the number of hours spent on it; the date it
was last updated; the date it was last plotted; etc.. (See table later in this section for full details of information stored).
A dialog will appear at the first save. If the Display on all save option is selected, this dialog will appear each time the drawing is saved.
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Description |
Enter a brief description of the drawing in this field. |
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Draftsperson |
Enter the name of the draftsperson in this field. |
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Department |
Enter the department of the draftsperson in this field. |
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Date Started |
The date the drawing was started is automatically entered into the Date Started field. This field cannot be edited. |
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Last Plotted |
The date is automatically entered into this field each time a plot is done. This field cannot be edited. |
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Entity Statistics Button |
Click this to display the Entity Statistics Dialog. This dialog lists the number of primitives, objects and layers in the drawing. |
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Block Statistics Button |
Click this to display the Block Statistics Dialog. This dialog is only relevant to drawings that have been imported from AutoCAD. It displays statistics about AutoCAD blocks hidden within the
drawing structure. |
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OK Button |
Click this button to accept current entries in the dialog. |
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Cancel Button |
Click this button to exit the current dialog without saving entries. |
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Clicking on the Entities Statistics button brings up the following dialog that lists the number of primitives, objects and layers in the drawing.
Clicking on the Block Statistics button, which is only relevant to drawings that have been imported from AutoCAD, displays statistics about AutoCAD blocks hidden within the drawing structure.
All this information is stored in an ASCII file called DRGOFFMG.TXT every time you save your drawing. DRGOFFMG.TXT resides in your AllyCAD User folder (i.e. if you log on as Guest, the file will be stored in the
\AllyCAD34\Users\Guest folder) and is updated each time you save a drawing. It can be loaded into any database that reads a comma delimited ASCII file, and can also be edited in any text editor such as Windows
Notepad.
Each record in the file refers to a particular drawing and is stored on a single line, with fields separated by commas. It looks something like this (but all on one line):
"TECH TIP.DRG","\DATA FROM CLIENTS\LANGBRIDGE\","D:","Support 1 - ","Tech tip","","A0
841x1189mm",1000,1000,"CARTESIAN",,,"Support","210",20040913,20040913,,,"","","","","","",
"Brett",,00,,,,,,,,,00,,,,
All the fields that are included in the DOM are listed in the table below, together with:
- The type of field (Type): Text characters (C); Numbers (N); Date (D).
- The number of characters allocated to the field (Len.).
- The number of decimals allocated to the field (Dec.).
- Whether AllyCAD automatically fills in the field. Fields that are automatically filled in by AllyCAD are marked with a *. You can fill in the non-automatic fields yourself using any text editor, provided that
commas separate each field and that text fields are enclosed in double quotes.
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NAME |
TYPE |
WIDTH |
DEC |
Description |
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FILE_NAME |
C |
256 |
0 |
Drawing name. |
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DIRECTORY |
C |
256 |
0 |
Directory drawing is stored in,
e.g. \AllyCAD34\. |
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DRIVE |
C |
4 |
0 |
Drive directory is on, e.g. C:. |
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DISK_VOL |
C |
12 |
0 |
Disk volume label. |
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DESCRIPTN |
C |
40 |
0 |
Drawing description entered
automatically from AllyCAD, e.g. Tech Tip. |
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MORE_DESCR |
C |
40 |
0 |
You can type extra descriptive
information into this field if you wish. |
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PAPER_SIZE |
C |
30 |
0 |
Paper size, e.g. A1. |
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SCALE |
N |
8 |
0 |
Scale, e.g. 100. This would
mean that the scale was 1:100. |
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UNITS |
N |
7 |
0 |
Units, represented in mm. If
the drawing units are mm, this figure is 1; if they are inches, this figure
is 25.4; if they are metres, this figure is 1000 etc. |
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COORD_SYS |
C |
10 |
0 |
Coordinate system. SOUTH for
Southern Hemisphere; NORTH for Northern Hemisphere. |
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DRG_ORIG_X |
N |
12 |
0 |
X coordinate of drawing origin.
If you are using Cartesian coordinates, this is 0. If you are using Surveyor
coordinates it is the Surveyor Origin you enter into the Drawing Settings
dialog box in the Settings Menu. |
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DRG_ORIG_Y |
N |
12 |
3 |
Y coordinate of drawing origin. |
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DEPARTMENT |
C |
10 |
0 |
Department responsible for the
drawing. |
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CAD_VERSN |
C |
6 |
0 |
Version of AllyCAD used. |
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DATE_START |
D |
8 |
0 |
Date the drawing was started. |
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LASTUPDATE |
D |
8 |
0 |
Date the drawing was last
updated. |
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LASTPLOT |
D |
8 |
0 |
Date the drawing was last
plotted. |
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DATE_DUE |
D |
8 |
0 |
Date the drawing is due to be
finished. |
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CUSTOMER |
C |
20 |
0 |
Customer. |
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JOB_NO |
C |
20 |
0 |
Job Number. |
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CATEGORY |
C |
10 |
0 |
Drawing category. |
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DRAWING_NO |
C |
15 |
0 |
Drawing number. |
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DRG_NO_B |
C |
15 |
0 |
Another drawing number. |
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STATUS |
C |
5 |
0 |
Drawing Status |
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DRAUGHTSM1 |
C |
10 |
0 |
Another Draughtsman |
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COST_HOUR |
N |
7 |
2 |
Cost charged per hour of
drawing. |
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TOT_TIME |
N |
7 |
2 |
Total time spent on drawing in
decimal hours, e.g. 0.5 is half an hour. |
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JAN |
N |
6 |
Time spent on drawing per month. |
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FEB |
N |
6 |
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MAR |
N |
6 |
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APR |
N |
6 |
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MAY |
N |
6 |
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JUN |
N |
6 |
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JUL |
N |
6 |
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AUG |
N |
6 |
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SEP |
N |
6 |
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OCT |
N |
6 |
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NOV |
N |
6 |
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DEC |
N |
6 |
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The information stored in the DOM file can be used for costing purposes i.e. the time spent on a drawing etc is stored in the file.
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