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Fields, constant across sheets

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 09:03:57 GMT

Hi,

I've just inherited a sheet set from a colleague and this is my first experience of the SSM and fields. The sheets contain fields in place of a titleblock but it appears that if I want to change the draftsman's name I have to do this in each layout. Is there a way to have the fields "linked" in some way so that I just have to change one instance?

In advance, ta.

Re: Fields, constant across sheets

chriscowgill7373 — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:54:48 GMT

you can create fields that apply to the entire sheetset, or to individual sheets. many times the draftsperson name is a per sheet occurance, because you can have multiple drafts people working on the same project. I havent used SSM in years, but I believe you can add new ssm wide fields and link those to your title block.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/AutoCAD-Core/files/GUID-683DA7B0-5FE6-4EFB-AE8A-C80B0D3D0EBC-htm.html

Re: Fields, constant across sheets

pkolarik — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:06:08 GMT

I can confirm what Chris said; you can create Sheetset-wide fields that are setup on a "per sheetset" basis. That being said, all our titleblocks have the "drawn by" field setup on a per sheet basis, because like he stated, each sheet in a set could be done by someone different in our office.

Our standard titleblock has 27 fields in it. Of those, 20 are on a per-sheet basis for various reasons. Of the remaining 7, two are tied directly to the file name for each .dwg file and the remaining 5 are simply sheetset-wide fields that are the same on every drawing across the project.

Re: Fields, constant across sheets

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 17:14:21 GMT

Thanks, chaps. I'll look into this further.