Change Feild Properties?

[Talayoe]

Gots me to wondering this morning, is it possible to modify this screen? The screen comes up when editing the title block feild properties and since I dont use alot of them and I have a couple custom ones made, it would be expressly convienient to have it all on this screen (summary) instead of clicking on this tab, that tab and the other tab (so to say).

Basically asking if you can re-map these feilds?

tks!

[cbenner · Accepted solution]

If you are using Vault Professional, you could use Data Cards, which are customizable in the Vault.  You can set them up to show whatever properties you need.  You can also check out Sean Dotson's IpropWiz software.  http://www.ipropwiz.com/index.html

[jtylerbc]

It's also possible to use VBA to make your own dialog box, run from a macro, to enter the ones you want to use instead of using the iProperties dialog.  I have one, based on an example from Brian Ekins (I think).   The dialog box itself is designed to look like the title block, so that I actually enter it exactly where it belongs on the drawing.

[Talayoe]

Chris, thanks I will give that add on a bash, but I dont like that it is quite expensive for just a modifier.

Jt, is this something you can share so I can try to mock it or something similar up to what I am doing? It would take most of the dumb out of it, which as I am sure you know can be a good thing 😉

Tks

[jtylerbc]

Talayoe,

In principle I don't mind sharing it, but my programming skills are quite weak, and revolve mostly around cobbling things together from code found online and in the programming help file.  Nothing I've done is likely to be a good example, so you're probably better off with the original example I started from.

http://modthemachine.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/10/drawing-automation.html

The example I started from came from this post.  I then modified the form, changed or added some properties, and otherwise messed with it until it worked for us.

[Talayoe]

Thank Jt, I will have a look into it. 🙂