Products View

The Products View is accessed through the Project Dashboard and performs a dual role. Use it to:

Search for and add products to your project
Manage the products in your project and their Attribute values.

The Products View is an optional Utility included in Stardraw Design 7 Gold level bundles and above.

Searching for Products

Use the top portion of the Products View to Search for products.

Type into the Search for Products box to find the product you want: the text you type is compared against the Model Number and Description fields of the Manufacturer Libraries that you have selected and synchronized locally.

In the Search example shown here products are returned that contain both "amplifier" and "ma-" in their Model Number and Description fields.

Search is not case-sensitive; the search text "ma-" will return "MA-", "Ma-", "mA-" and "ma-".

Use the Manufacturers dropdown box, top right in the Search area, to filter your results to a single manufacturer.

Note that:

You can only search the manufacturer libraries you have selected under Tools | Personalization | Manufacturer Libraries and synchronized locally.
If more than 100 results match your search text, only the first 100 are shown. Add search terms to refine your search and reduce the number of matches.

Adding Products to your Project from the Search Area

1. Doubleclick on a result to add 1 instance of that product to your project

2. Click on a result to highlight the product, set a number in the Quantity field and click on Add, or hit Return, to add that number of instances of the product to your project.

Product Attributes

Use the bottom portion of the Products View to see the products in your project, manage Attribute values and delete products.

To set an Attribute value, select the product, click on the Attribute field and type in a value.

You can re-order Attribute columns by dragging the column header to a new position.

To delete a product from your project, select it and press Delete on your keyboard.

To select multiple products, use the Shift or Ctrl keys on your keyboard.

Products View Drawing Columns

At the end of the Products Grid, after the columns that show Attribute values, you will see a column for each drawing in your project. These columns serve 2 purposes:

An icon shows the symbol status for each product as it pertains to that drawing.
If the product symbol is present in the drawing - i.e. a green tick is shown - you can click on the icon to jump to that drawing and select the symbol.

The following icons indicate product symbol status:

Symbol is present in the drawing.

Symbol is not in the drawing.

Product is a Stardraw Library product and no symbol is available for this drawing type.

Product is User Defined and no symbol is available for this drawing type. Click to open UDP Wizard to create a new symbol.