Trouble finding certain project properties

[Anonymous]

I seem to recall a project setting to turn off automatic capitalization of the description (DESC1, DESC2, etc) for components. Anyone know where I would find that setting?

Also, where do you set the property for the wire layers (assign layers to be recognized as wire layers), for the project. I can find it for individual drawings, but would like to change the setting for the entire project.
As a work around, I have modified the .wdp file, setting [26], but surely there has to be some dialog in which to set that property. Anyone know?

I'm using AcadE 2009...

And I promise to stop calling you Shirley...

[rhesusminus]

Hi.

In the project manager, right-click the project and select Properties. Then have a look at the attached picture....

You can use the "Settings compare"-function to copy wire layer settings from a drawing to the project. In the project, right-click the drawing you want to copy layers from, and select Properties -> Settings compare...
Select "Wire layers" in the list and press the "Match drawing"-button to copy the wire layers to the project.


Shirley

[Anonymous]

Hi,

The setting for the capital letters can be found in the following.

go to project properties

then in the component tab, down the bottom there will be a component options sections. there will be a checkbox that says 'Description text upper case' if it is checked all the descriptions we be in upper case on your drawings.

cheers

steve

[Anonymous]

Thanks Steve.

[Anonymous]

So are you saying there is no way to directly set the wire layers for the project?

I think my work-around of editing the wdp file is much quicker than doing as you suggested, but thanks for trying.

[rhesusminus]

As far as I know there is no other dialog to set the wire layers for the project. Usually these setting resides in a "template project" that you copy the settings from when creating a new project.
But... Editing the WDP-file directly might be a perfectly fine solution in many cases 🙂

THL