Doug, can the section values be populated by sectioning the drawings in a project in to seperate folders? I don't want to have to right click on each individual drawing, go to properties, and then manually type in a section for it. I want to divide my drawings into sections:
Hi Controlsgirl,
You could do an excel export of the Drawing Settings, Then import the changes back in.
Then you can assign all of the Section codes, Sheet numbers, etc. all at the same time.
I hope this helps,
James
The company I work for builds HV switchgear and switchboards.
Our system uses the following format PPPPPP-DD-SS where P stands for the project Number,D for the dwg number and S for the sheet number within that dwg.
For example a switchboard with 8 HV CB's would have 1 project number and 12 drawing numbers with however many sheets are needed per dwg number.
Dwg 01 is our General Arrangement for the entire board, SLD and other project wide information.
Dwg 02 to Dwg 09 would be the 8 different panels in the board.
Dwg 10 would be the Bus Wiring between panels for trips/power supply and communication.
Dwg 11 would be metalwork dwgs for the cubicle doors only.
dwg 12 would be any other non standard metalwork like arc vent ducting.
Each dwg would have multiple sheets.
Dwg 01 would have
Sheet 01 as the GA
Sheet 02 is the foundation plan
Sheet 03 is the SLD
Sheet 04 is the project notes
Dwg 02 to 09 would have
Sheet 01 - AC wiring showing VT's, CT's, Protection Relay connections to CT/VT circuits.
Sheet 02 - DC wiring for thr protection and control relays, AC for cubicle heaters and any other ancillary wiring
Sheet 03 - Labels for the panel
Sheet 04 - Panel Bill of Materials
Depending on the complexity of the control and protection, additional schematic dwgs may be added and the sheet numbers adjusted as needed.
The other dwgs would be set up in a similar manner for their different functions.
Wer don't use the Section and Sub-section in our dwgs but I do use them in the Project manager to quickly identify the dwgs.
Regards Brad
Brad Coleman, Electrical Draftsman
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I might be out of the loop having no ACAD-E for the last several years, but...
I used to do a little creative programming to automatically program the drawing settings. The company I was working for used drawing names that represented specific sections of their machinery, so I wrote a bit of LISP to inject section, subsection, sheet#, and drawing# codes into the project file, based off of the file name, count of files with matching section codes derived from the file names. Also did something similar to syncronize titleblock attributes and their matching project information. (I'm not a big fan of manually touching every property with the mouse either.) Maybe there's a better way built into the program now, but I recall that not doing this step with my enchancements was a big time-wasting error-prone exercise, that unfortunately was crucial to making some of the best features of ACAD-E work correctly. (My code is attached, FWIW. Not commented the best, but not too bad to be understood I think.)
Basically, all the information is there, but to pull it together efficently do some custom programming. I'm in an IntelliCAD and ACAD-LT environment now, and with ICAD I still use a combination of vLISP, Excel, & sometimes command-line (DOS) & BATCH to automate things as much as possible. I don't really miss project files that much anymore, the electrical drafting environment I'm in these days is greatly simplified & we still get it all done somehow!
WD_M-EDIT.scr:
(LOAD "PROJ_CODES_AID")
(LOAD "TITLE_CODES")
(COMMAND "-ATTEDIT" "N" "N" "WD_M" "SHEET" "" "" (SUBSTR (GETVAR "DWGNAME") (- (STRLEN (GETVAR "DWGNAME")) 5) 2))
(COMMAND "-ATTEDIT" "N" "N" "WD_M" "IEC_PROJ" "" "" (substr GBL_wd_prj (- (strlen GBL_WD_PRJ) 10) 7))
(COMMAND "-ATTEDIT" "N" "N" "WD_M" "IEC_INST" "" "" IEC_INST)
(COMMAND "-ATTEDIT" "N" "N" "WD_M" "IEC_LOC" "" "" IEC_LOC)
(IF (EQ SHEETDWGNAME NIL)(COMMAND "-ATTEDIT" "N" "N" "WD_M" "SHEETDWGNAME" "" "" IEC_LOC)(IF (EQ IEC_LOC SHEETDWGNAME)(COMMAND "-ATTEDIT" "N" "N" "WD_M" "SHEETDWGNAME" "" "" IEC_LOC)(COMMAND "-ATTEDIT" "N" "N" "WD_M" "SHEETDWGNAME" "" "" SHEETDWGNAME)))
TITLE_CODES
GRAPHSCR
Hi BigBoreBri,
I find a Picture often helps when explaining this concept.
Think of the red outline as the FULL dwg (after all of the sub sections have been put together).
All of the Sub sections are divided by the white line (this would be the end of that sheet and the start of another,)
So A-1, A-2, A-3, A-4 are all DWG D-XYZ123, But they take up 4 sheets instead of one sheet.
You can have multiple Drawings with sections in the same project that follow the same idea.
Sections: A-1, A-2, A-3, A-4, B-1, B-2, B-3, B-4 ( the location for the puzzle pieces... )
Sheets: 1 - 8 ( the order you want them to print)
Drawings: D-XYZ123 & D-XYZ124 (all of the A Sections are together and all of the B Sections are together)
I hope this helps,
James