topic Re: title block in AutoCAD Forum

title block

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:46:51 GMT

How can I take a existing title block, have it autofill some of the info and than have it prompt me for the rest???

Re: title block

john.vellek — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:06:44 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

I see that you are visiting as a new member to the AutoCAD forum. Welcome to the Autodesk Community!

Great question and there are likely many existing threads in this forum.

I suggest that you start using fields that link either to Drawing Properties or Sheet set properties for the "Automatic" part of this equation.

The remainder of the text can be contained in attributes so the user will get prompted upon an INSERT of the titleblock (check ATTDIA).

If you have a sample drawing with your titleblock, you are welcome to attach to a post and let me know which fields you want automatic or manual. I am happy to give you some help in stetting this up.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

Re: title block

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:35:56 GMT

That would be a great.

I've been using ProE and Sodidworks for 15 years.

My new company is stuck in 1990 with Acad 2016.

Here is my template I want to use. Is there a way so the title block also prompts you for the scale? I want all the text, arrrow sizes to chg with the scale also,

if this is possible???

thanks

Tim

Re: title block

john.vellek — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 16:57:14 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Do you use sheet sets? Much of this information that you indicate as Manual could be entered from that set.

As far as Arrow sizes and such, I would suggest that you have annotative style set up so this is automatic. You could also retrieve a viewport scale to populate the drawing scale automatically but this breaks when you have more than one viewport with different scales.

Please give me a bit more detail and I can jump in on this for you.

Re: title block

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 17:51:37 GMT

No, I have never used sheet sets.

The problem is, we don't save a multipule sheet dwg in one file. We save every sheet as it's own file.

Thanks

Tim

Re: title block

john.vellek — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 17:59:00 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Sheet sets can actually be utilized for layouts in multiple drawings and could work really well for this. At any rate, I will set this up with custom Drawing Properties, DWGPROPS.

Re: title block

john.vellek — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 18:42:59 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Your file actually had attributes set up to capture information as well as a couple of fields. I swapped the attributes (except in the Revision portion) to fields linked to DWGPROPS.

Does this look like it will help or did I miss your intent?

Sheetsets would also let you share properties across a series of drawings s you could enter the values once and let it show up on all the drawing sheets.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

Re: title block

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 18:51:29 GMT

This looks great, can you do this for the revision block?

If I have a tem sheet drawing and every sheet is it's own file, sheet sets will allow me to chg all of the sheets at once?

Tim

Re: title block

john.vellek — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 18:58:57 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Why don't you give it a try yourself and let me know if you run into any obstacles? Start by adding the field to DWGPROPS (custom) and then insert Fields that link to the properties.

Sheetsets take all of this one step further and let you share Project properties across sheets, individual sheet properties, integrated publish and eTransmit as well as Sheet Indexes. If you want to explore this option, you can zip up a sample set of drawings and I can mock up the sheet set for you.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

Re: title block

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 19:39:06 GMT

Did you send me the title block you started?

Tim

Re: title block

john.vellek — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 19:41:02 GMT

Hi Tim,

Yes, my version of your file is attached to my post #7.

Re: title block

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 19:47:48 GMT

Thank you

Re: title block

john.vellek — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:19:38 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

I am checking back to see if my post helped you with your problem. Please add a post with how you decide to proceed and your results so other Community members may benefit.

Please hit the Accept as Solution button if a post or posts solves your issue or answers your question.

Re: title block

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:28:33 GMT

Hi John,

I'm still having problems understanding how all this works.

I'll try and spend more time on it tomorrow. Thanks for checking in with me.

Tim

Re: title block

john.vellek — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:30:47 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

I am sorry if I added any confusion to the issue. Can you send me a sample set of drawings? You could strip out most of the content. I think to get you started I just need to see the various drawings and layouts that comprise your drawing set.

Re: title block

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:34:42 GMT

It's not you, it's been along time since I've used 2d Acad.

The tilte block I sent you is what we use on every drawing we create.

Tim

Re: title block

john.vellek — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:37:02 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

OK, I guess the first question should have been "How many sheets are there in your typical drawing set?"

If you only use one sheet then using the DWGPROPS I showed should suffice. If you have multiple sheets or multiple layouts then we can continue to explore Sheet Sets.

Re: title block

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:47:13 GMT

We do things diff here.

We might have a 5 page drawing but every sheet has it's own file.

drawing1 sht1 rev 0.dwg

drawing1 sht2 rev 0 dwg

drawing1 sht3 rev 0.dwg

drawing1 sht4 rev 0.dwg

drawing1 sht5 rev 0.dwg

Re: title block

john.vellek — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:41:12 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

I mocked up a Sheet Set that links to 5 drawings that each have one layout. I used xref to link your titleblock to each layout. Then I inserted a block that consisted of attributes. Each attribute is a field linked to the Sheetset properties. Most of the properties I created as Custom Properties.

You can explore this sample and see how to adjust all the fields right the Sheet Set manager window. Some of the properties are specific to each sheet such as the drawing number and other properties are part of the whole sheetset such as the Customer Name.

You might find navigating your drawings is easier using the sheet set manager too.

Just for fun I also Rt-clicked on the top level of the sheet set and created a Sheet list table (Index) too that is easily updatable.

I hope this gets you started.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

Re: title block

john.vellek — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:56:01 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

I am checking back to see if my post helped you with your problem. Please add a post with how you decide to proceed and your results so other Community members may benefit.

Please hit the Accept as Solution button if a post or posts solves your issue or answers your question.