ContentBrowserOpen

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Opens the Content Browser panel.

Accessing the Command

command bar:  contentbrowseropen

context menu *: Content Browser

* Place the cursor over a toolbar or a ribbon panel, then right click.

 

: contentbrowseropen

Displays the Content Browser panel:
 

Command Options

Option

Description

Add Folder...

Adds a folder to the Local Folders tree.

Do one of the following:

  • Click the Add Folder... button.

  • Right click on the Local Folders node, then choose Add folder in the context menu.

Remove Folder

Removes a folder from the Local Folders tree.

Right click the folder you want to remove and choose Remove folder in the context menu.

Open Drawing

Opens a drawing in one of the folders in the Local Folders tree.

Right click the drawing name and choose Open drawing in the context menu.

Place View

Executes the PlaceView command.

Places a model view selected from a source drawing into a paper space layout of the current drawing.

Do the following:

  • Switch to the layout where you want to place the model view in the target drawing.

  • Expand the source drawing in the  Local Folders tree.

  • Expand the Model Views node of the source drawing.

  • Drag a model view from the Content Browser panel onto the paper space layout of the target drawing.*
    Prompts you:
    Enter file name: D:\BricsCAD Training\Bricscad\TrainingCD\EN\Exercises\House.dwg
    Enter view name to place or [?]: Garage
    Tip: right click to select scale.
    Enter view origin point:

  • (option) Right click and choose a scale in the Scale List

  • Click a point to place the view.

The source drawing is inserted as an Xref drawing in the model space of the current drawing, on a layer with the same name as the source drawing

A paper space viewport is added looking onto the xref according to a newly added view that matches the source view.

In this new viewport, only the layers of the xref are set visible, so the view is not disturbed by other drawing content.

If the current drawing belongs to a sheetset, a matching sheetset view is created and a view label block is added.

 

* If the current layout does not belong to an open sheet set an alert box displays:

 

Related Commands

ContentBrowserclose - closes the Content Browser panel.

MView - creates one or more viewports in layout tabs.

 

 


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