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Titleblock disappears after closing a drawing

Titleblock disappears after closing a drawing

Titleblock disappears after closing a drawing

(OP)
All,

 I'm self teaching WF3 and have run into a snag. I have a template (has a .frm extension) for my drawing sheets that has a titleblock with attributes. Someone else with much more Pro E knowledge than I have setup the template file. When I create a drawing using that template everything fills out correctly and looks great. However, when I save the drawing, close it, and reopen it much of the title block is missing. The only parts of the titleblock that remain are the cells with the attributes. Any other lines and text doesn't show up. The only way I have found to fix it is File -> Page Setup and under the format column for the sheets I have to browse and reselect my template. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Aaron

RE: Titleblock disappears after closing a drawing

Do you have the config.pro option "pro_format_dir" set?  Set it to a directoy on your machine and put the .frm in there.   

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Fighter Pilot
Manufacturing Engineer

RE: Titleblock disappears after closing a drawing

(OP)
Success!!! You're awesome! Thanks a ton!!

So, if I am understanding this correctly, Pro E continues to reference that template file? Not like Solidworks where the template becomes part of the file.

Aaron

RE: Titleblock disappears after closing a drawing

Yep.  Always looks to that directory to get the latest format.  Is not stored with drawing.   

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Fighter Pilot
Manufacturing Engineer

RE: Titleblock disappears after closing a drawing

(OP)
I could see that feature being rather handy. We have redesigned our Solidworks titleblock several times. As a result, when you open an older drawing you never know what version you are going to get. The block can be updated fairly easily to match the latest template, but no one ever does it.

RE: Titleblock disappears after closing a drawing

Yes, I know.  I was Pro/E CAD admin for years, starting at R13, and did a lot of the underlying setup for our systems.  

Once you have your formats defined I dont see why they would keep changing.  Ours never did.

If you use tables in your formats and parameters in your models, the model will automatically populate the drawing tables with information from the 3D models.  It's pretty slick.

I'm currently working in CATIA V5 and a little bit of UGNX5.  They don't compare to the way Pro/E handled things.  It was much more intuitive in Pro/E.   

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Fighter Pilot
Manufacturing Engineer

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