topic Re: Title block won't update in Inventor Forum

Title block won't update

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:22:54 GMT

The title block in my drawnig won't update, nor allow me to change manually.

I replaced the refernce model from another drawing, but I have done this before without nay complications.

How can I force this to change?

Re: Title block won't update

mdavis22569 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:26:24 GMT

Can you share the IDW ..

Are you pulling the properties from the Model instead of the Drawing?

We can't tell here they are being populated from ... we know you have a pop up box that you populate ....but that's it

Re: Title block won't update

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:38:14 GMT

I am pulling them from a model, but the document iproperties are correct there. Everything seems correct.

I had an issue with this the other day because I was using tables, and the information was being pulled from one of the parts. I managed to sort it by changing the part name, but this still didn't answer my concern:

Where does this information come from, and how can I interact/rectify with it?

Re: Title block won't update

mdavis22569 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:42:57 GMT

Well if you have the pop up in your idw, you'll want to pull it from there. however you can pull it from the ipt/iam as well .... I only made the comment because of the pop up in the idw

I'm opening the idw now

Re: Title block won't update

Ray_Feiler — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:44:35 GMT

Have you tried closing down Inventor and opening it back up?

Re: Title block won't update

mdavis22569 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:50:08 GMT

I didn't have a problem

are you looking at your iproperties?

I was able to fill it right from the iproperties ...that's where they are all located

Re: Title block won't update

mcgyvr — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:53:33 GMT

The "title" field is set to grab the custom iproperty named "title" from the drawing.. That field is empty in your drawing.. So naturally its empty..

Re: Title block won't update

mdavis22569 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:57:10 GMT

your title block is set up to fill all of it from your iproperties custom page

Re: Title block won't update

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:12:59 GMT

Ok, that is a start. If I get stuck I can manually change it. Thanks.

However, will this effect further changes if they are made? Why is the <TITLE> not pulling a value from the model in the first place?

Re: Title block won't update

mdavis22569 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:18:36 GMT

You can set it up to pull it all from the same spots ...

Question is how far do you want to go? Also can you attach the part or a blank Ipt file of yours to show you

Mine is back populating the field box

you can make a prompted entry that will propulate it .... again it's all about how you want to set it up

Re: Title block won't update

mdavis22569 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:22:05 GMT

also as @mcgyvr pointed out you're pulling it from custom not Model

your title block should look like this if you want it to be from the part

Re: Title block won't update

mdavis22569 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:24:41 GMT

you have

I've attached a sheet where I updated the title

Re: Title block won't update

mflayler — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:26:53 GMT

Have you read through this first (see attached)? There are some tips here that will probably help you.

Off the top of my head, I think you should...

Not use Prompted Entries (especially if Vault is in your future)

Use an iLogic Form to fill out your Custom iProperties

Consider having model iProperties populate your drawing border as well as copying themselves to your drawing iProperties (especially if Vault is in your future).

Re: Title block won't update

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:31:01 GMT

I get an 'error in reading RSe stream' when I try to open the drawing...?

Re: Title block won't update

mcgyvr — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:34:01 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I get an 'error in reading RSe stream' when I try to open the drawing...?

Do we assume thats on the drawing from mdavis?

If so.. it doesn't matter..

The point is that your template is simply not setup as you think it should be.. So fix it..

Re: Title block won't update

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:36:50 GMT

Is there any way to trigger this 'retrieval of metadata' again?

Yes, I have fixed the issue. Thanks for your help. Does anyone know why the 'title' area was actually blank, or is this just one of those things?

Re: Title block won't update

mdavis22569 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:37:01 GMT

sorry I'm on 2016....

anyway ...look at my pictures ..that's how you want to set it up to look ...

model properties , title ....

same with any others that you're pulling from the model ....

Re: Title block won't update

mdavis22569 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:38:01 GMT

it was blank because NOTHING was in the custom title property on the IDW .....

when I manually put in ...HERE IS YOUR ANSWER .... it showed up

Re: Title block won't update

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:40:54 GMT

Your answers have been very helpful. Thank-you.

It is not normally blank when I do this. Is there any actual reason why this data was not collected?

Re: Title block won't update

mdavis22569 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:43:27 GMT

not sure .... unless someone changed it to pull from the custom vs model