Title Block project wide update

[HyperOle]

Hi,

I'm having problems when running "project wide" update of the title block. When I do it puts in DWG description 1 both where it should be and also where I want dwg description 3 to be. In the command field it also says it updates my attribute from what I want to the same as in the attribute for DSC 1 (see attached picture).

When running "Active drawing only" it works as it should. Any ideas?

regards,

Ole 

[ramesh.kambang]

Have you tried by ticking the box "Activate each drawing to process", see marked in RED?

[HyperOle · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Tried, but it had no effect.

Have however recearced a bit more, and noticed that the WD_TB attribute had "TITLE#4" listed two times, where it was wrongly overwritten the last time.

Do not know why it did so only when processing the whole project and not by active drawing only, but now it works...

[vladop · Accepted solution]

I had the same problem with all attributes containing # character.

It must be preceded with ` character.

"TITLE#4" works only in active drawing but "TITLE`#4" works project wide too.

AND THAT IS EXPLAINED IN WDT FILE:

;; Note: if the title block's target attribute tag name contains one
;; or more "wild card characters" (they are: # @ . * ? ~ [ ] - )
;; then the name MUST be preceeded by a grave accent character `
;; Example: `[REV] = LINE5 (where title blk attrib name is "[REV]")

Regards,

Vladimir

[ramesh.kambang]

Another tip is: if a long attribute, for example, "Customer, City" is used, it will update only when the drawing is active. Hence, this long attribute must be written as Customer_City to be able to update project-wide (without activating each drawing to process). 

[jseefdrumr]

You can't create an attribute with a space in it, the spaces have nothing to do with the character limit in an attribute. And anyway, 'drawn by' and 'drawn_by' have the same number of characters.

That said, there's definitely a character limit for attributes. It's just that the inclusion of the underscore has no bearing on what happens if you activate each drawing to process or not. If the attribute is too long, it's too long.