PowerClic basic concept is
to convert your drawing to a menu.
It's a kind of contextual
drawing
With PowerClic, you will
then only have to « power-click » on an entity to access the commands
that generated it!
It is a bit confusing at
the beginning, but you will soon get use to it and then, cannot work without
it.
For instance (without
POWER-CLICK) when working in the layer HYDROCARBURE and needing to add a valve
in the STEAM network, you first have to change the layer, then look for the block‘s
name related to the valve and then use the insert command. Boring!
With POWERCLIC, you just
need to « PowerClic » on a valve of the STEAM network and it will
automatically change the layer and activate the insert command with the right
valve block. Of-course, one can reach the same result by using the commands
copy, rotate and scale.... tedious!
And if there is no valve in
the STEAM network, but there is one in the COMPRESSED_AIR network? You just
need to type CTRL + « power-click » on this one and select the STEAM
network in the choose layer button PowerClic contextual action dialog box.
Everything is done for you...
!
This will also work for any
AUTOCAD 2D entity, and for every characteristic kept in the AUTOCAD database.
-> How to access it?
- By “ Power clicking” on
an entity.
- By typing PWR at the
AUTOCAD prompt and by selecting a source entity.
- From the button :
- Using contextual menu on
a selected entity
Conventions:
- "click" = to
activate the button 1 (left) of the arrow.
- "Power-click" =
to activate the button 3 (middle) of the arrow.
- "validate" = to
activate the button 2 (right) of the arrow.
- "anywhere" =
place the cursor over an empty place in the drawing.
- "on an entity"
= place the cursor over a drawing‘s entity.
- «source entity» = basic
entity used for the PowerClic command.
The command you obtain will
depend based on the preferences you choose for each entity.
By default, and in order to
accelerate the commands, some questions will not be asked to you. For instance,
when you « PowerClic » on a block, PowerClic will only prompt to
specify the scale factor in X and Y : PowerClic will indicate itself the
values of the source object to AUTOCAD and will only ask you for the insertion
point and the rotation angle.
If this set-up is not
convenient to you, you can modify it through the preference menu.
Other PowerClic important
feature is contextual action.
It
allows you, using a dialog box, to customize your contextual drawing command,
or select or modify, entities that are similar. It's a powerful
select/filter/modify shortcut.
You
can even apply a plug-in. command to your selection