Creating a drawing macro

Using this command, parts of a page or entire pages which you want to use more often in other drawings or in other positions on the current drawing can be selected and saved.

There are different ways available for selecting the individual elements which you can use in any sequence or as often as you wish.

Hint

This does not apply to the SLI range function

Activate the menu option, then an entry dialog appears in which you will have to enter a name for the drawing macro to be created. The drawing macro should be stored in the corresponding directory otherwise it will be difficult to find again. The standard dialog is already defaulted with this directory so that you only have to enter a name. If you do not enter a file extension, this will automatically set to 000.

Example

Select the individual parts of the drawing (in this case, the Windows method). You need to position the cursor as accurately as possible (tolerance of a few pixels).

After menu option activation, you must select an option in the menu, top left in the working window in order to determine the choice of objects belonging to the drawing macro.

Possible choices

• All (if active) selects the contents of the complete WSCAD page
• 1Object        Click on the relevant element (including texts and lines) with the left mouse button
• Objects        Click on several elements with the left mouse button (finish selection using the right mouse button and <ESC>)
• 1Window       Draw a selection window with the left mouse button held down
• M-Window       Draw several selection windows with the left mouse button held down

Finish the selection by clicking on the right mouse button and confirming with the <ESC> key. Each multi-selection is finished with <ESC> or the right mouse button. Also pay attention to the status display on the status bar at the bottom of the screen.

Hint

You can only extract parts selected by means of the M window by using ‘Objects’ to select again from the selection.

Tip

Using your own drawing macro will speed up your work significantly.