Before doing the exercise below make sure you have completed the previous step, Push template to opposite. Also, try to do Copy Plan to 3D so that you can visualize what happens if you do not run Bind Covers.
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Cap Complete will prompt you to Select Objects. -
Type all and press Enter.
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Cap Complete will report how many parts were found. Press Enter again to accept the selection.
Note: In order for a bind to be performed on an elevation template, either the front or the back template must be selected, or the Cap Standard that the elevation template is linked to, or both. In order to bind all the elevation template in a drawing, you need to type all for the selection set.
Notice that the covers are now displayed on the 3D representation.
Behind the scenes, the Bind Covers command has copied all the parts in the elevation template to all of the 2D and 3D Cap standards linked to the elevation template. All the parts on the 2D and 3D Cap Standards will show up on a take-off. -
Type Hide at the command line to see the 3D more clearly.
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See Validate elevations for the next step.
Note: All the point parts placed by Bind onto the 2D Cap standard are located at their correct locations so that when that standard is copied to 3D after a bind has been run all the covers were correctly placed. If you make a change to the elevation template and bind it again, those changes will be reflected in the Cap standard. If there were 500 copies of this Cap Standard, making a change and running bind would change all 500.
Bind is a very important feature in ensuring that all the parts placed onto a service wall are configured to that elevation design and counted for Bill of Material purposes.