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Drawing Field Text Question??

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:26:22 GMT

Is there a way to lock in some of the field text(date, city/state, job #, project, ect)? Like when I have a bigger set of drawings and I keep on having to enter the same info in on every sheet, other than adjusting the fields that do change (Sheet title, Sheet #). It would be nice to enter that info once and then whenever I do a new sheet that info comes in automatically.

Re: Drawing Field Text Question??

cbenner — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:31:34 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Is there a way to lock in some of the field text(date, city/state, job #, project, ect)? Like when I have a bigger set of drawings and I keep on having to enter the same info in on every sheet, other than adjusting the fields that do change (Sheet title, Sheet #). It would be nice to enter that info once and then whenever I do a new sheet that info comes in automatically.

Are you doing your drawings as "sheet sets"? Multiple sheets in one drawing? Or are you dealing with individual drawings of separate components. If the second, you could always enter the text in your Template as text, and not linked to a property. But then it would NEVER change.

Re: Drawing Field Text Question??

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:35:55 GMT

I do most of the drawings as sheet sets.

Re: Drawing Field Text Question??

cbenner — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:39:30 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

I do most of the drawings as sheet sets.

In that case, you should only have to fill out the ipropeties once, and they will populate your titleblocks on each sheet. In your titleblock symbol, are the fields mapped to iproperties of the draiwng file?

Re: Drawing Field Text Question??

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:48:30 GMT

This is what my title block looks like on a new drawing. I don't think anything is mapped to iproperties on the iam. We have some parts that are pulled from a library and are used on different jobs so those may have to be left blank. What is the procedure for mapping to the iproperties?

Re: Drawing Field Text Question??

cbenner — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:27:20 GMT

Enter text into your titleblock, where you want the information to appear. In the ext editor (see image), select a property type(from seveal types available), and then the actual property whose contents best match what you want to show. In my example this is the customer name field, I am mapping it to the "COMPANY" iproperty on the drawing. Hence Propertied-Drawing in the "Type" box.

If there is information that doesn't match any of the iproperties, you can create a custom property (do this in your drawing template files). Under type you will see Custom Properties - Drawing. This could be for things like City and State, or whatever you need. By selecting a combination of model properties, and/or drawing properties etc.... you can show whatever information you need in your title blocks.

In the image I posted earlier, for example, Description comes from the part or assembly model iproperties. Company, City and State come from the drawing iproperties. the Drawn by, checked by and approved by all come from the Drawing iproperties. So you can mix them up however it works best for you. But do this in your template files so they will always be there for you.

Re: Drawing Field Text Question??

BrandonW9 — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:31:08 GMT

When you are in the title block editing it, there is a little dropdown button where you can choose, then just click the button to drop it in to the text editor. See attached pic.

EDIT: Nevermind, he beat me to it.

Re: Drawing Field Text Question??

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:44:57 GMT

I found the area your talking about linking to either a part or drawing. I put something in the project area in the iproperties in the iam file I'm using. Then I edited the title block for the project location I want(properties - Model, project). But when I go back to the dwg it says <enter project>. How does the dwg know what part/assembly to link the text area's to? Is it the first part placed or is there another step I'm missing?

Re: Drawing Field Text Question??

cbenner — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:01:58 GMT

If you are taking the property from the model, it will grab it from the first model placed in your drawing... I should have mentioned that... sorry! it's fairly important.