The titleblock should be no problem.
I use 2 different titleblocks: INFO-W (Wiring) and INFO-M(Panels,
Enclosures, etc).
On your title sheet, you will need to add Attributes that match the lines in
the Project Description.
For example, let's say in the Project Description that Customer is in LINE1,
Description is in LINE2, and Project Number is in LINE3.
We will create 3 Attributes with the names CUST, DESC, PROJNO in the
location on the titlesheet where you want them to appear. Make a block out
of these attributes (I used INFO-W). I would use one of the corners of the
titlesheet for my handlepoint (or 0,0 works good to. It will help you
automate the inserting of the titleblocks then)
In the default.wdt located in
C:\Documents and Settings\{YOURNAME}\Application Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD
Electrical 2004\R16.0\enu\Support
I had to add
BLOCK=INFO*
so that ACE would know what block had the titleblock info.
In this same file, you will tell ACE what each attribute holds.
Add
CUST=LINE1
DESC=LINE2
PROJNO=LINE3
to default.wdt and save it. You will have to close and then re-open ACE for
the changes to take effect.
Now if this block(INFO-W) is inserted into your titlesheet, when you click
on "Update TBs," Select by Project and select all, ACE will go through every
drawing in the project and change all the CUST attributes to whatever was
entered in on the Edit screen. The same thing for DESC and PROJNO.
If you take advantage of the SHEET and MAXSHEET attributes, it will also
renumber the sheets in the order that they are listed in the project dialog
box and update them in the titleblock if that attribute was created in the
INFO_W block. You would have to add SH=SHEET (for example) to the
default.wdt and attribute SH to INFO-W. The only thing you cannot do (yet)
is concatenate 2 or more fields, but they are working on it.
I hope this helps speed you along...
--
Robert Hanrahan
Weigh Right Automatic Scale Co.
ACE user since 1997
"MReed" wrote in message
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> Glad to hear it get's easier...I'm really impressed with the automation
sure beats manually change every wire number because we add a device, etc.
> As far as my title sheets, I'm trying to figure out how to line the
information, number, title, etc to each dwg so that the numbering changes
automatically as I add sheets, and yes, each schematic is it's own dwg file.
> We don't do much mechanical other than panel layouts, and I'm sure I'll
get to those questions when the time comes...
> thanks for you help