Project properties wire number sequential format question

[JeffatSJE]

Looking at the help file regarding topic, can some one clarifier what the following will do and how to implement it:

If you set DEMO1 to 100 and DEMO2 to 200, the wire numbers on DEMO1 start at 100 and those on DEMO2 start at 200. If DEMO1 has more than 100 wire numbers it starts using wire number 200 and above while DEMO2 would begin its wire numbers where DEMO1 left off (making sure that duplicate wire numbers are not assigned).

[Anonymous]

This is explaining the option within wire numbering to use sequential
numbering. You can give a range of wire numbers to use for a specific
drawing. If the range is not big enough for the drawing then it will use
numbers beyond that range. If it needs to go beyond the range and it "bumps"
into the range for another drawing it will adjust the starting point for
that drawing so that no wire numbers are duplicated.

So in the example given, DEMO01 was given a range of 1-100, and DEMO02
101-200. If DEMO01 needs more than 100 wire numbers it will keep going and
use 101, 102, etc. until all wire numbers are assigned. Then DEMO02 will
start at the next available number instead of 101 as assigned.

Hope this helps,
Pat Murnen

wrote in message news:5150049@discussion.autodesk.com...
Looking at the help file regarding topic, can some one clarifier what the
following will do and how to implement it:

If you set DEMO1 to 100 and DEMO2 to 200, the wire numbers on DEMO1 start at
100 and those on DEMO2 start at 200. If DEMO1 has more than 100 wire numbers
it starts using wire number 200 and above while DEMO2 would begin its wire
numbers where DEMO1 left off (making sure that duplicate wire numbers are
not assigned).

[JeffatSJE]

What is DEMO01? a drawing? a code? a value I should set in the sequential number box?
how does AE know to use this range?
I'm confused 😞

[Anonymous]

Sorry. I should have been more specific. DEMO01 is one of the drawings in
the sample project loaded with AcadE. It might only be loaded if you select
the JIC standard. There are different sample projects depending on the
standard selected at installation.

If you select Drawing Properties (Acade2007 or Drawing Configuration AcadE
2006, attached picture shows AcadE 2007 dialog) you select Wire Numbers,
Sequential and enter the starting number. The starting number for each
drawing, and the drawing order in the project, defines a range.

Say you have a project with 3 drawings in this order, DWG1, DWG2, and DWG3.
Say you enter 1 as the starting number on DWG1, 101 on DWG2, and 201 on
DWG3. This defines the range for DWG1 as 1-100, for DWG2 101 to 200, and
DWG3 starts at 201. Further, say that when wire numbering is added to DWG1
it actually needs 101 numbers, so uses numbers 1-101. Even though DWG2 is
supposed to start at 101 it actually will start at 102.

Again, all this is only relevant if your drawings are set up to use
Sequential wire numbering.

Pat Murnen



wrote in message news:5151950@discussion.autodesk.com...
What is DEMO01? a drawing? a code? a value I should set in the sequential
number box?
how does AE know to use this range?
I'm confused 😞

[JeffatSJE]

Thanks that clears things up. I wrote some vba code to set the tag-start and wire-start values based on the file name. so if the file name ended in -114 the tags would start at 1400 and the wire would start as 1450. I thought this was something similar.
Thanks Again