One title block for many templates
One title block for many templates
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Hi, Is there a way to have only one title block for many templates? We have almost 10 drawing templates, and when I want to change a propertie or something in the title block, I have to change every template. That is very hard, because of the number of templates, and sometimes the changes are to small, but I have to change manually all the title blocks.
Thank you for your time
Adi
Thank you for your time
Adi






RE: One title block for many templates
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RE: One title block for many templates
If you do not mine having the outside boarder lines and zones on the face of the drawing, you can do it. We do not like having any boarder format stuff on the face of the drawing, so we will not use this method. What we did was to use on size fits all approach. One “D” size drawing only.
Make a copy of all your templates; put them in some place safe.
Let’s call your templates A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2, D1, D2 and TitleBlock.
TitleBlock is what holds your part number, description and etc.
Open D1.drwdot, edit Sheet Format and delete everything except the title block.
Save as TitleBlock.drwdot
Open D1.drwdot, now Edit sheet and draw in the boarder with zone letters and numbers on the sheet “ NOT ” the Format. Edit Sheet Format by deleting everything. Save as D1.drwdot
Do the same for C1.drwdot for the sheet “ NOT ” the Format. Save as C1.drwdot
Now you have D1.drwdot, C1.drwdot and TitleBlock.drwdot
Open your D1.drwdot and Edit Sheet Format, you should see no title block now. RMC and reload TitleBlock.drwdot Save as D1.drwdot
Do the same for C1.drwdot
Let’s change TitleBlock.drwdot by putting a big circle over the title block on the Sheet Format.
Reload the TitleBlock.drwdot into D1 and C1. You will see the circle on both sheets.
Good Luck
Bradley
RE: One title block for many templates
Thank you
Adi
RE: One title block for many templates
Open TitleBlock.drwdot and Edit Sheet format, make some change.
Click File in SolidWorks main menu, then Save Sheet Format…
In the Save Sheet Format dialog box in File name: TitleBlock.slddrt click Save.
Do you want to replace it? Answer Yes
In SolidWorks main menu, click File, Close.
* * * Very Important * * * Save Changes to TitleBlock. Drwdot – Sheet1? Click Yes.
Now open D1.drwdot Now RMC properties and reload.
The trick was and is to “Save Changes to TitleBlock. Drwdot – Sheet1?”
Bradley