Changing names in Title block

[Anonymous]

I am pretty new to Inventor. I am doing a drawing and I am working on the details. How do I change the info in the title block for each individual part? I change it in the Iproperties and that changes it for all sheets but I dont want all sheets to change. Please help.

[mdavis22569]

Welcome,

Then you'll need to set up the title blocks with the properties you want to change ...

So you may have a few custom iproperties you make to go along with a few different title blocks.

It's hard to show you without seeing what you're doing ...

Can you post an example or the title blocks ..

[MechMachineMan]

I think Prompted Entries might be what he is looking for.

[mdavis22569]

Custom would be much easier in my opinion.... 

He could fill them out in or outside of Inventor. He could do them one by one, or in Batches for items that have the same value. 

So many more options with customs then prompt

[MechMachineMan]

This is true. All still manageable with prompted entries as well.

As far as anyone knows is there any disadvantages to using custom
properties instead of custom?

[mdavis22569]

prompt vs custom do you mean?

[MechMachineMan]

Yes.

[mdavis22569]

Not really ...

Few things:

I can change the custom ones, without being in the file much easier ...

I can change them from Windows explorer in one by one, or batches. I can edit them in Vault (probably could with prompt here as well)

I'm assuming, but it's probably easier to pull data into custom then prompted from say Ilogic and excel spreadsheets.

I'm sure some like Prompted entries and some like Customs .... it's a Ford/Gm/Mopar thing ...

[MechMachineMan]

I was just wondering, because we use prompted... but it seems like the bulk
edits through the BOM would be much more useful.

[mdavis22569]

Look into them ... personally I like them more than prompted.  I have more options to access them being part  of the iproperties ...

hope that helped in what you were looking for in the differences.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your help. I am trying to understand this as best as I can. Sorry for my lack of knowledge in Inventor. I am trying to adjust from Solidworks. I figured it would be as easy as changing the iProperties in the part and have it come in like that when I put that part into a sheet in my drawing. I guess I have a lot more to learn. I may have to find a small class on Inventor. Once again thank you for trying to help me.

[SBix26]

The recommended approach for drawings in Inventor is one part per drawing.  Putting multiple parts in the same drawing file as individual sheets just runs into complications as you are finding.  And, even though Inventor is very well behaved in my experience, the occasional corruption is just one bad save away, and if you've got fifty part drawings in one file, you've lost a tremendous amount of work.  Why not work the way Inventor works best and put each drawing in its own file?

Sam B

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