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Step Action Result
1 Open drawing sheet Open the drawing sheet that you would like to stamp. The drawing sheet is displayed in the drawing window.
2 Activate stamp tool Click on the Stamp tool button () in the Toolbar. If you now move the mouse pointer into the drawing window, it will be displayed as a stamp (). At the bottom left of the drawing window, the “Stamp with” dialog box appears:
3 Check/set start value for the numbering 1) Define the start value in the window Characteristic properties.

The number is assigned to the first characteristic in the test plan during stamping that is stored in the settings (see Customization > Settings > Stamp) as a start value, by default “1”. Each additional stamp receives a number incremented by the set increment. The counter will be at the lowest possible value if characteristics are already present in the test plan.
The counter for the numbering in the example is set as required at “1”:
2) In the “Stamp with” dialog box, define properties that should be taken into account when stamping:
- Prefix, Suffix
- Categorie
- Tag
2) The stamp properties are correctly selected.
4 Stamp There are three alternative sub-functions available for the actual stamping:
4a) Stamp a characteristic individually.
4b) Automatically recognize and stamp all characteristics in one area.
4c) Stamp a drawing entry, which is not recognized as interrelated, as a characteristic.
Note If you leave the category preselection on Automatic, the drawing entries are automatically evaluated according to which →categorie they are. The following are assigned accordingly: 1) Standard feature, 2) Control dimension (laterally rounded frame), 3) Theoretically exact dimension (rectangular frame), 4) Auxiliary dimension (round brackets) and 5) Raw dimension (square brackets). The prerequisites for the recognition of the frames are that they consist of straight lines (and semicircles) and are selected during stamping. If necessary, an area (step 4b) or a group shall be stamped (4c). For rectangular frames it also applies that this consists of a single polyline, but this restriction is currently being worked on.


Note  The recognition of the categories “Control dimension” and “Theoretically exact measurement” is possible from program version 1.3.10.2 onwards.
4a Stamp individual characteristic Move the mouse pointer () onto the characteristic and click with the left mouse button (single click). In the expample the size “□86” is stamped. After stamping, it received a stamp with the number “1” and appears as an entry in the characteristic overview:
4b Stamp area Move the mouse pointer () onto the drawing surface and select the desired area (see also User interface > Operation – Special features when selecting and choosing):
After stamping, all relevant characteristics of the area received a VDA stamp with numbers from “1” to “7” and appear as an entry in the characteristics overview:
4c Stamp group 1) Move the mouse pointer () onto the drawing surface. Press the control button on the keyboard and keep it held (The Stamp-with-window is extended by the query “stamp as group”). Select the drawing entry as an area (see also User interface > Operation– Special features when selecting and choosing).

In the example the drawing entry “geometric tolerance”, specified with a tolerance indicator (tolerance frame), ist going to be stamped:
1) The number of detected elements are displayed in the “Stamp as group” dialog for control purposes, it is ten in the example. These are the vector and text elements from which the drawing entry is built upon.
2) Confirm the dialog by clicking on Stamp. 2) The elements selected as a group have been recognized as a characteristic, stamped as such and taken over in the test plan:
en/infra-convert/user/functions/ballooning_workflow_en.1571063118.txt.gz · Last modified: 2019/10/14 16:25 by me