To Work With Drawing Comparison Result File

 
 
 

Use the various comparison options to review the drawing comparison result.

Change Display Order

Draw Order allows you to control the display of overlapping objects in your drawing comparison result file.

  1. In the DWG Compare dialog, select the two drawings files you want to compare and click Compare. A contextual ribbon tab displays.
  2. On the Compare contextual ribbon tab, in the Comparison panel, click Draw Order to change the display order of the overlapping objects from the two drawing files.

    By default, the DWG 1 overlapping objects are in front and DWG 2 overlapping objects are at the back for overlapping objects.

Manage Drawing Information

Drawing Information provides you with information about the two DWG file properties.

  1. In the DWG Compare dialog, select the two drawings files you want to compare and click Compare. A contextual ribbon tab displays.
  2. On the Compare contextual ribbon tab, in the Comparison panel, click Drawing Information.
  3. In the Drawing Information dialog window, you can either:
    • Click Insert in the Drawing.

      Inserts the information about the compared drawing files in to your current drawing in a tabulated format.

    • Click Copy to Clipboard, and then click Close. This copies the information about the compared drawing files to your clipboard.

Use Compare Filters

Compare Filters provide you with appropriate filter options, which allows you can to exclude certain objects in your comparison result.

  1. In the DWG Compare dialog, select the two drawings files you want to compare and click Compare. A contextual ribbon tab displays.
  2. On the Compare contextual ribbon tab, in the Compare Filter panel, click the appropriate filter type that you want to exclude in the comparison result.
    • To hide text comparison, click Text.
      NOTE:By default, text comparison is set to 1 (on). You can change the default value to 0 (off) using the COMPARETEXT system variable.
    • To hide hatch object comparison, click Hatch.
      NOTE:By default, hatch comparison is set to 0 (off). You can change the default value to 1 (on) using the COMPAREHATCH system variable.

Use Revision Clouds

Revision clouds are used to highlight portions that have changed in the two compared files.

  1. In the DWG Compare dialog, select the two drawings files you want to compare and click Compare. A contextual ribbon tab displays.
  2. On the Compare contextual ribbon tab, in the Change Set panel, select Rectangular or Polygonal from the Revision Cloud drop-down.
    NOTE:By default, revision cloud is set to 1(on). You can change the default value using the COMPARESHOWRC system variable. You can also specify your revision cloud shape using the COMPARERCSHAPE sysvar.
  3. In the Change Set panel, Margin box, use the slider to define the margin from the bounding box that contains the differences to your revision cloud.