Add a New Figure

Need another figure? No problem. Follow these steps to get started. We'll take care of the sheet numbering and labeling for you.

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Written by Laura Berwick
Updated over a week ago

This article covers the following topics:

  • Add a New Sheet and Figure in the Drawing Tool

  • Add through Sheet Duplication

  • Add a New Figure on an Existing Sheet

  • Add a New Figure and its Figure Description Sections in the Specification

Note that adding new figures in the drawing tool automatically populates corresponding brief and detailed figure description sections in the specification and vice versa.

Add a New Sheet and Figure

  1. Open the Drawing Tool.

  2. Open the Sheets panel in the left-hand sidebar and click the Add New Sheet control that appears on hover at insertion points between existing sheet thumbnails



    OR

    Click the New Sheet option in the menu at the top of the Sheets panel, the Sheets and Figures menu in the tool bar, or the Drawing menu.




  3. A new, empty sheet, with sheet numbering and a FIG. # label will be added at the insertion point you selected in the Sheets panel, or at the end of your figure set when using the menu options.

Add through Sheet Duplication

  1. Navigate to the figure sheet you wish to duplicate OR select the desired sheet thumbnail(s) in the Sheets panel.

  2. Click the Duplicate Sheet and Descriptions option under the menus at the top of the Sheets panel and the the right of each thumbnail in the Sheets panel, the Sheets and Figures dropdown in the toolbar, or under the Drawings menu.




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  3. A new figure sheet and new description sections will be populated at the end of your figure set with duplicated data.

Add a New Figure on an Existing Sheet

  1. Navigate to the desired figure sheet.

  2. Click the New Figure on this Sheet option in the menu available to the right of a selected sheet thumbnail, the Sheets and Figures menu in the tool bar, or the Drawing menu.




    OR

    Drag the FIG stencil from the Special elements stencil menu onto the drawing canvas.


  3. A FIG. # label will be added to your current sheet and can be clicked and dragged or moved with your keyboard arrow keys to your desired location.

    Note that to allow each figure to be manipulated independently, an unselected figure sharing a sheet will be grayed out and disabled to prevent accidental modifications.

Add a New Figure and its Figure Description Sections in the Specification

  1. Open your application.

  2. Navigate to the brief or detailed figure description sections and locate the point at which you wish to add a figure.

  3. Hover where you wish to add your figure to reveal the Add figure controls.


  4. Click the Add figure option.

  5. New brief and detailed figure description sections will be added at the selected points of the specification. A new figure sheet will also be added in the Drawing Tool.



    Note that before the first figure description and after the last, where adding a non-figure section is also allowed, Add figure and Add section controls are both available in the hover bar.

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