Data Management - Device Sheets
Created: July 17, 2017 | Updated: February 27, 2018
| Applies to versions: 18.0 and 18.1
Now reading version 18.0. For the latest, read: Data Management - Device Sheets for version 21
Summary
The Data Management – Device Sheets page of the Preferences dialog allows you to manage the device sheet related features.
Access
The Data Management – Device Sheets page is part of the main Preferences dialog that is accessed by clicking the control in the upper-right corner of the workspace then selecting the Device Sheets entry under the Data Management folder.
Options/Controls
Device Sheet Folders
- Device Sheet Folder List - lists all the added device sheet folder locations.
Include Sub-folders
- check this option so all sheets in sub-folders also can be used as a device sheet.
- Move Up - click to move the selected entry up in the list of device sheet folders.
- Move Down - click to move the selected entry down in the list of device sheet folders.
- Add - click to search for and select a folder containing device sheet files to add.
- Remove - click to remove a selected device sheet folder from the list.
Options
- Make Device Sheets In Projects Read-Only - disable this option to edit the objects on the device sheet that is associated by the device sheet symbol on a parent sheet. By default, this option is enabled meaning you cannot edit device sheets.
- Display "Read Only" Watermark - enable this option so the device sheets will have 'Read Only' as the watermark for the background and to denote that device sheets are not editable.
- Display Device Sheets Watermark - enable this option so the device sheets will have the recycle symbol as the watermark for the background.