The Incremental Update Command

By Bob Knepp of American Electric Power

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.