Creating a Zone

This task shows you how to create a zone.
A zone is used to logically group objects. You do this by creating boundaries, which are used to enclose groups of objects. In the illustration below the user has drawn a polygon around some lines and components. That polygon can be designated a boundary and made part of a zone. When you assign certain properties to the zone they will also be assigned to the objects within all the boundaries that are part of that zone.

A zone has certain properties that you can assign or change. It is global in nature and can extend over several documents, and contain numerous boundaries. While a zone is global in nature, once you create a boundary and make it part of a zone, it becomes local, or specific to that document. This means that when you change the properties of the zone you do it locally so that the change applies to a specific document.
Before you create zones you must designate a directory in which they will be stored.
See Project Resource Management for Electrical Connectivity Diagrams.

For more information see also Understanding Project Resource Management.

  1. Click the Create Zone button .

    The Create Zone dialog box displays.

  2.  Enter a name for the zone.

  3. Enter properties if you want to.
    Certain default properties will be assigned but you can enter your own if you want to.

  4. Click OK.
    The zone will be created.