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[#1]

I cannot find any information anywhere on whether there exists an option to save different defaults to the Place Views>Base Drawing View>Display Options tab? The parts I model always need "tangent edges" shown to look correctly on my drawings, and for 5 years I've had to manually select it every time I do a drawing. It just seems that there has GOT to be a way to get rid of this tedious step? And if there is not, can you plainly include this in the documentation so I can stop looking for such a feature?

[#2]

I'm looking for exactly the same thing! Anyone know?

[#3]

Not sure if this would work but you could try this.

Open your template drawing file (%INSTALLDIR%\Templates\) and place a base view of a .ipt file.  edit the view and select tangent edges, click ok. Now delete the view and save the template file.

Create a new drawing and place base view, hopefully tangent edges will be ticked.

Hope this helps,

Graeme

[#4]

Thanks Graham!

Actually, I had a similar issue where I wanted to views to have a different default label - in my case the TITLE property of the part. Found nothing in the UI, so I adjusted a macro I found on the net:

'Sets the drawing label for all views
Public Sub SetAllViewCaptionsToTitle()
    Dim oDrawDoc As DrawingDocument
    Set oDrawDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
    Dim oSheet As Sheet
    Set oSheet = oDrawDoc.ActiveSheet
    Dim oView As DrawingView
    For Each oView In oSheet.DrawingViews
        If oView.ViewType = kStandardDrawingViewType Then
            oView.Label.FormattedText = "<Property Document='model' PropertySet='Summary Information' Property='Title' FormatID='{F29F85E0-4FF9-1068-AB91-08002B27B3D9}' PropertyID = '2'> TITLE</Property>"
            oView.ShowLabel = True
        End If
    Next
End Sub

cheers,

Matt

www.arden.net.au

[#5]

Matt,

You can actually do what you're looking for in the styles manager.  Select the standard you're using and under view preferences tab, select the pencil next to the display box.

From the Type drop-down list select Properties - Model, and from the Properties drop-down list select Title.  To insert this property select the icon which shows an X with an arrow pointing down.

[#6]

I have logged your request to our database. Thanks for reporting!

[#7]

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okaleja wrote:

I have logged your request to our database. Thanks for reporting!

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That request should have already been in your database.. This is requested year after year after year.

[#8]

How about a global toggle to turn on or off a 'Remember last settings' switch for **** near every user-selectable option such as in hole dialogs, drawing view creations...

[#9]

I'm now using 2012 and this setting/default option is still unavailable!!! How do folk get a resolution to this annoying omission?