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Visual aids are important for developing a user-friendly design manual. The design team has manually created AutoCAD images to help users understand the plant designs. One major problem of this task, however, is that the developers need to regenerate the AutoCAD plots when they change a design of a single object in the system.
The major goal of this project is to automate the process of creating professional layout sheets in AutoCAD. The generated sheets will include not only drawings but also the dimensions and zoom scales of the models and the comments by the developers. Furthermore, the final layouts will be plotted into PNG files. The automation is based on AutoCAD features such as layout, dimensions, plots, and etc. More detailed information pertaining to the AutoCAD commands that are used is given in the next section. The MtoATranslator program is updated with new AutoCAD commands. The other AutoCAD design scripts will be renewed according to the updated MtoATranslator.
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