How to save a custom title block?

[vid.kok]

When I am in drawing workspace and I create a new title block it is only visible within that very drawing. And if I close the drawing and the title block was not used it gets deleted. My question is how to create a custom block title by modifying the defult one and saving it, so I can use it in future projects.

[sandris.vitolins]

File -> Save as -> Drawing Template (.f2d)

[sandris.vitolins]

If you create from "New Drawing Template", then just save it and it will save as drawing template. If you are using "From Design", then "Save As" -> "Drawing Template".

[vid.kok]

I am probably doing something wrong because I just cannot get it to work.

Can you please explain to me step by stap how to do it?

I basically want an option to switch from default ISO title block to my custom title block (see the image).

[g-andresen]

Hi,

1. create a 2. sheet

select your template for sheet 2:;

3. activate sheet 1  > titleblock > your titleblock will be shown in the screencast above

günther

[vid.kok]

I followed your steps but it doesn't work. I only get two options when I create a drawing which are "From Scratch" and "Browse".

[vid.kok]

I noticed that a template can be used if it is in the same folder as a design which is a source file for the drawing. Is that normal because it seems rather unpractical to have sepparate copies of the same templates in each folder.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

The template is located as f2d in a folder in the data panel.

This does not have to be the folder where the design is located.

It is created via File .. and saved there.

In the GIF I show how a new template can be added and used for other sheets.

add sheet with new template

günther

[vid.kok]

Thank you for the help.

Unfortunately I cannot claim that I understand the logic but after hours of trying I somehow made it to work.

Do you have a separate project folder where you keep your templates?

It would be much better in my opinion if one could simply upload a template into Assets folder and pick the right one when creating a new drawing.

[g-andresen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The procedure for using individual title blocks is actually somewhat tricky.

The process:

1. you create a new template via File > New Drawing > New Drawing Template.
2. sheet settings > Title block > add title block
3. from current or create new >> name for new title block!! *
4. save with "template name" in a folder for templates . 

Important: Title blocks are not saved separately but are always bound to a template.

* The names of title blocks do not have to be identical with the names of the template.

The embedding into a new drawing is described above.

regards

günther

[royshearer]

This is very difficult to get a a working understanding of.

Am I right in thinking that once the template has been used to make a new drawing, there is no link between the template file (and thus its title blocks) and the new file? I ask because I notice that changes in the title blocks in my templates don't seem to propagate to existing drawings made using those templates.

In other words:

'Title blocks' are a subset of 'Drawing templates'.

'Drawing templates' are not a subset of 'Drawings'.

When a Drawing is created from a template, the 'Drawing template' including 'Title blocks' is copied into the 'Drawing'.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

Yes, a saved change in the f2d template does not trigger an update action (yellow triangle).

Only when on the way:

Add sheet & select the modified template & "Change Titleblock" the template will be transferred to another worksheet in the modified form. 

günther

[royshearer]

I'm sorry I don't understand your second point there.
I just tried this and it did not behave correctly:
My alternative title block is present in my template, and works fine
when I create a new drawing: I can select between the two title blocks
using the dropdown menu in 'Change title block'.
If I take an existing drawing and add a new sheet, using the same
template as a template, the second title block does not appear in the
'Change title block' dropdown menu.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

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@royshearer wrote:
If I take an existing drawing and add a new sheet, using the same
template as a template, the second title block does not appear in the
'Change title block' dropdown menu.

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That´s right.

A title block is bound to the template and thus only available via a new template.

Change Titleblock in Existing Drawing:

1. Add sheet & select the modified template "Sheet 2)

2. Leftclick "Sheet 1" > "Sheet Settings" > Titleblock > Change Titleblock > Menue "Sheet Settings" > select TB

günther

[royshearer]

I'm sorry I'm not understanding that wording - can you break it down a bit more?
Not sure what you mean by 'new template' in that context?

[g-andresen]

Hi,

look at edited  # 14

günther

[royshearer]

OK, I think you've maybe got sheet 2 and sheet 1 mixed up there but it sounds like you are describing the second method I was referring to.

I have made a screencast to show what I'm meaning. I think you may understand already what I'm meaning, but I don't understand why the two methods create different results.

In both the workflows I am describing, I am using 'change title block' AFTER the drawing sheet has successfully been created from the exact same template file. What I don't understand is why the different methods of creating the drawing sheet should result in different options for titleblocks (ie. using 'new drawing' from a 'design' and selecting the template file vs. using 'new sheet' from a 'drawing' and selecting the same template file). 

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[royshearer]

The forum is not letting me embed a screencast - says it is invalid html.

Here is the link:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/1e9cb4d2-8ec8-4d1d-bf31-e53a41b1e29c

[g-andresen]

Hi,

As I wrote above, it's a little tricky.
Try not to use the Quick Add method but like I showed it in # 8 in the GIF:
> Right Click > ADD SHEET.

günther

[royshearer]

Yes, that is what I am doing, see the video.. in #18