Title Block Attribute Formatting - "drawn by", etc.

[davidJLPZJ]

Hi,

Is there a way to control the formatting of title block attributes such as "drawn_by", what name appears and its formatting and whether titles and descriptions can appear on multiple line?

Thanks!

[ClintBrown3D]

Hi @davidJLPZJ 

The username comes from your Fusion account by default. BUT, you do not necessarily need to use it, you could use a custom attribute, which you can set up on your template. I have an interesting workflow where you can use a pre-populated Custom attribute if you are part of a smaller team.

Regarding multi-line attributes, we've recently introduced some new functionality called "Properties Anywhere" (scroll down a bit) 

This will allow you to create text placeholders in your template, which will behave just like any other text field on a drawing.

Here's what this could look like on your drawing:

[kara_richardson]

Hi Clint.

My troubles with [the lack of] attribute text wrapping come from my part names being too long to fit in the title block without squishing.

I tried this method that you suggested of adding a text box on top of the title block within my template, but I wasn't able to add the property into that text box until I used the template with a part and edited it that individual file. The text box populated the part name correctly in that text box (which gave me some hope for this solution), but then the text box didn't transfer to the next page when I added one (even though it lives within the template). Will I have to copy and paste it to every page to get my part name to show up? Is there something I can change that will make it behave differently? It seems like there should be a better solution for this...

You didn't hint anything about this in this post that I'm replying to, but do you think we could see I change made in the future that allows users to simply control the bounds of an attribute text box like we would with any other (so that the text will wrap within the space we provide for it)? It's true that the attributes will currently recognize the limits of the title block, but I think it would be nice to have another option besides squishing or shrinking the text. If some don't prefer a text-wrapping function, maybe there could even be the option to uncheck it in the attribute properties window or document settings to go back to squishing the text instead.

What are your thoughts on this idea in general, and could you see it being added to Fusion?

[ClintBrown3D]

Hi @kara_richardson 

Let’s connect and discuss this. I’d like to help you to get this sorted out.

There is a link to connect with me via my calendar (in my signature below). Note that times are in 24h format, so 03:00 is 3am, 15:00 is 3pm etc.