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Title block information into Sheet set

Thomasbatson
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Title block information into Sheet set

Thomasbatson
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Our company is relatively new to using sheet set and even newer to using sheet set with Vault.  We have many drawings that are saved for our clients (thousands for some clients) that get re-used into different projects through the years.  The issue we have is when we have a new projects for these clients, we go out and grab all of these drawings from our server, put into a project working folder.  Our title blocks reference fields in set so now every one of our drawings will blank out these fields unless we re-type all of these fields into the new sheet set, but this is for many drawings sometimes hundreds per customer. 

 

I guess my question is if that all makes sense, how can we reuse drawings and not lose the information in the title block but also NOT retype everything in sheet set with every project.  

 

I hope that makes sense but I can elaborate if needed. Thank you for the help.

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user181
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Hi @Thomasbatson   When you create the new sheet set choose the option "Select a sheet set to use as an example"  and then browse to a previous sheet set from that client and select it for the example.  then hit next, name the new sheet set, etc.  Then hit finish and all the entered project info from the previous sheet set will be filled in (project name, number, custom fields, etc.)

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Thomasbatson
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I have seen that option but haven't used it.  For instance we have a client with multiple hundreds of drawings, but we only want to use, say 50 of them.  If I use that option from an example sheet set we would then the new sheet set would have those thousands of drawing that we would then have to go through and remove all the other until we get to our 50.  That is the way I understood it anyway, maybe I can just try an example and see how it can be manipulated. thanks

 

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user181
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It won't copy the drawings it will just use all the sheet set properties that were entered by right clicking on the sheet set and selecting properties. It will use all the entered data that is standard and any custom properties you may have created. 

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Thomasbatson
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I see, but our problem is with that is most of our clients have different areas and our title blocks reference that area.  Just as examples some of the drawings might be Building 1, Room A, Electrical Controls, Panel X so the title block would have those showing as line 1, line 2, line 3 and line 4 but then some drawings may reference Building 2, Room B, Electrical, Panel Y Rack 0 Module 1 (as an example).  Those fields are specific to that drawing and once created and done should stay that way, but we would also want to use sheet sets ability to create sheet list table so those fields need to be filled out.  Can't think of how that could all work together. 

JTBWorld
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Normally if you copy a Sheet Set and Sheets things are relative so the fields points to the new copy. It might be that Vault messed this up. Did you try resave all sheets from within Sheet Set Manager? 

You could use our JTB BatchAttEdit to fix the fields if they are in attributes.

Then you might find JTB SSMPropEditor useful too to update the sheet property values. 


Jimmy Bergmark
JTB World - Software development and consulting for CAD and license usage reports
https://jtbworld.com

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