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The Incremental Update Command
By Bob Knepp of
American Electric Power - www.aep.com
Ever have one of those drawings
that contain lots of graphics and when you click “Update”
it seems to take forever? The only reason you are
updating the view is because you just deleted this
big ’ole heavy weight line that left all those
gaps in the view. Granted, the update probably only
takes a few seconds but it still seems like an eternity
when the boss is breathing down your neck. Your solution
is the incremental update command <iupdate>.
In the “Key-in”
browser type <iupdate>, then click on a data
point in the related view. This will only update the
active elements that need to be updated and will not
update reference files. To update the reference file
you must use the regular “Update” command.
There are several options
available with this command. Using the “Key-in”
browser you will see that you can also use <iupdate
1>, <iupdate view>, etc. Now you can really
get fancy and set this up as a function key or in
a custom tool box.
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