Element Type Attributes

Element type attributes help in performing an advanced search.

This topic provides more information about the element type attributes.

For more information about advanced search, refer to Infrastructure User's Guide.

Related Topics
Performing an Advanced Search
Finding And Replacing Text

Any element type has the following attributes:


  • Name: indicate the name of the searched element
  • Color: select a color from the color chooser or use the color of an existing element
  • Set: a selection set indicating a numeric value with the corresponding unit of measure.

Some elements have additional attributes:

Type Additional attributes Value to select or to key in
Balloon Part name name of the searched element
Datum Feature Reference name name of the searched element
Datum Target Reference name name of the searched element
Size size indicated in the searched element
Dimension Type type of dimension (angle, diameter, radius, length, etc.) searched
value dimension value searched
Not associative on 3D Yes/No
Not updateable Yes/No
Fake Yes/No
Driving dimension Yes/No
True Yes/No
Geometrical tolerance value tolerance value searched
type tolerance type (circularity, concentricity, flatness, parallelism, etc.) searched
Text having attribute links Yes/No
text string text string searched
View Text having attribute links Yes/No
text string text string searched