DX Editor
DX Editor
DSG files store a snapshot of data read from a drawing.
If you want to update the drawing with changes that you made to the Grid document, you can use the
Write button in the Data tab.
To change the drawing filename, click Drawing Link in the Drawing tab. This allows you to save to a different drawing.
To copy drawing entities, select DXF Data in the context menu. First, right-click and select DXF Data > Copy Data. Your clipboard now contains all DXF data for each row selected.
Next, select a cell above your target location and select DXF Data > Paste Data New Rows. Before you write your drawing, click Repair to audit and assign handles.
Use the DXF Data context menu to copy and paste entites. This allows Drawing Sync to maintain DXF group code sequences when using the clipboard.
If you are experienced with DXF codes, you can edit the dxf column (hidden by default) to specify the sequence.
After making any changes to your drawing in the DSG, you should click Validate or View in the Drawing tab.
You can set size and text formatting options. To display the Format Grid dialog box click Format in the Grid tab.
Formatting options apply to the entire grid (you cannot set format options for individual cells).
The Always Show Text Values option disables checkboxes, calendar controls, and numeric conversions. This option is useful to disable formatting and display the exact value read from the drawing (for example: to display a 0 or 1 instead of a check-box).
The Source button sets the data connector. A data connector can be SQL, TEXT, or No Connector. This is an advanced feature that allows you to change connectors (for example: from a non-connected DSG document to one that links to a table in a drawing).
To begin editing a cell, double click the cell which activates cell edit mode. Press Enter to save and continue to edit the next cell (or Esc to cancel). Ribbon buttons can be disabled while a cell is in edit mode.
If you type text on a selected cell the contents of the cell is replaced.
Additional start-edit options are available in the Edit button in the Edit tab (more importantly, the Edit button displays Keyboard shortcuts).
If you press Delete in a text cell is left blank (empty string). You can also set a cell to default (nothing) and null.
Most data files and servers distinguish between NULL and blank text (or a numeric zero). A default value (blue color) is meaningful to the DSG document and specifies that nothing is written for that cell value if you Write to the drawing.
If Always Show Text Values is selected in the Format Grid dialog box, (Nothing) or (Null) displays instead of color.
Most edits that are made to grid cells can be undone. Commands that affect the grid as a whole, or through a formula or macro, are generally not undoable. In situations where you edit many cells at once (for example, pasting data into an entire column), you may wish to clear Undo in the Edit tab.
The DSG document supports multiple cell selection. You can press and hold the Shift key in combination with a mouse click to extend the selection. Press and hold the Ctrl key to toggle cell selection. The
In the Edit tab, the select buttons support advanced selection features such as invert and select by value.
You can sort, group, and filter values in an DSG document. You can also select columns to copy to a new DSG document.
If you sort and then group a column, you can get a list of unique values.
You can set a numeric type (for example: R8 - Double-precision floating-point) to sort numerically.
If a group and filter command clears a row from the grid, you can you can specify to cut the value to the clipboard (copy the values removed during a Reduce).
The Join command allows you to perform UPDATE and APPEND operations in-memory between Grid documents.
You can open SQL Offline *.ol files. These files can be used to bring data from a relational DBMS to your drawings.
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