101 — Chamfer, both routes

Every feature in ConstructiVision can be reached two ways: from Main Panel Details, where it has a tile, or from its own command on the ConstructiVision menu. They open the same dialog and write the same data — but they differ in when the panel is redrawn, and that difference is worth learning once, here, because it holds for every feature that follows.

Chamfer is the simplest feature in the product, which is why it goes first.

Note

This lesson also exists in the browser. Work it in ConstructiVision on the web — same steps, same values, so you can follow either and end up with the same panel.

Route A — from Main Panel Details

  1. Open Main Panel Details. Chamfer is one of thirteen features with a tile.

  2. Tick the Chamfer tile. Chamfer Details opens immediately — you do not press OK first. Ticking the tile is the way in.

  3. Enable the Main Panel row. Up, Dn and Size become available.

  4. Choose the faces.

    • Up — the face toward you, the face up in the casting bed.

    • Dn — the far face, against the bed.

    Check both and both faces’ edges are bevelled — the usual call-out when both sides stay exposed.

  5. OK on Chamfer Details. The setting is saved and nothing is drawn yet.

  6. OK on Main Panel Details. Now the panel redraws, chamfer included.

Route B — from the Chamfer command

  1. Run Chamfer from the ConstructiVision menu. The same Chamfer Details dialog opens, showing the same stored rows.

  2. Edit a row exactly as before.

  3. OK. The panel redraws straight away. There is no parent dialog to return to.

The difference, and why it matters

Route A (tile)

Route B (command)

opens on

ticking the tile

running the command

accepting the dialog

saves, draws nothing

saves and redraws

the redraw belongs to

Main Panel Details’ OK

the feature dialog’s OK

If you are setting several features at once, Route A is fewer redraws — set them all, then press OK once. If you are adjusting one thing and want to see it, Route B shows you immediately.

Notes

  • The panel template ships carrying dormant rows from the drawing it was captured from (CV-1905), so Chamfer Details may open with values already in it.

  • A tile that is already ticked cannot be ticked again. If a feature is already on the panel, use its own command to reopen the dialog.

Watch the lesson

Note

What this recording does and does not demonstrate. It walks both routes to Chamfer Details and shows the same dialog reached each way, which is the lesson’s teaching point.

It is not evidence that the two routes write identical data. The take reads the panel’s ch NOD before, after Route A, and after Route B, and all three came back identical — but on the shipped template that proves nothing, because CV-1905 leaves row 1 already carrying a chamfer. Both routes wrote a value that was present before either ran, so the check cannot tell “both routes agree” apart from “neither route wrote”. Establishing route equivalence needs a take driven onto a row the template leaves blank.