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Sometimes a user encounter problems starting Design Tool with some strange exception message stating "The 'DbProviderFactories' section can only appear once per config file." . This comes from the fact that IBM DB2 installs a...
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The Design Tool can create balloon annotations in a drawing through the Drawing -> Annotations -> Balloon Annotation menu item in the toolbar. Balloon annotations are linked to the part list that is shown above the header in...
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The load and save functions found in the Online Store cart are quite powerful and it's important that you understand how they work in order to take full benefit of them (and to prevent mistakes). There are some differences between user leve...
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Geometries and floorplans exported from CAD software like AutoCAD, Inventor and Solid Works can be imported in FlexLink Design Tool by using the features in the Layout/Import group. To prevent and avoid performance issues it’s recomme...
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The element module is probably the most important module in the Quotation Tool. This is where you add all your items that is the base for calculations. And there's a lot of functions to help you out, some of them might not be that obvious, t...
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The Design Tool requires that certain Internet web servers can be accessed in order to fully function. If it cannot access them, the tool will not start or fail to update important changes in eCat components or the Design Tool itself. Therefore...
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3D World
What is the meaning of A, B and C that is displayed in the component Properties panel?
The degrees of rotation in Design Tool uses an ABC format which is referring to the ZYX coordinate axes in that order. That is ABC stands ...
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The Design Tool makes it possible to use an additional logotype in the drawing template. An additional logotype will be displayed to the left of the drawing template head. Note: It's not possible to remove or replace the original Fl...
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Here's a list of shortcut key combinations in the Design Tool. Key combination Description CTRL+N New layout CTRL+O Open (File) CTRL+S Save (or Save as) CTRL+P Print DEL Delete the selected components Ctrl+C...
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The 2017 quotation Word templates are distributed with version 2.1.23 of the Quotation Tool. Make sure that you are running version 2.1.20 or later before continuing reading this article. The version number can be found in the Help/About ...