Drawing Formats v. Drawing Templates
Drawing Formats v. Drawing Templates
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Hello,
I would like to create a standard drawing that I can use for my company that would automatically ask for the drawing name and drawing author through use of parameters.
What I have done is I have used a format with company title blocks when creating my template, and I add notes in my template using the '&' parameter to force the program to ask me to fill in the info when I create a new drawing.
The problem is that when I want to add a new sheet to the new drawing, the previously entered parametric values are not carried into the new sheet... and the new sheet does not ask for me to enter anything either. I have also tried doing the parametric notes in my format, but everything I put on the format is not accessible when I open a new drawing. What is it that I'm doing wrong?
Please help me on how best to setup up my formats and templates. Thanks.
I would like to create a standard drawing that I can use for my company that would automatically ask for the drawing name and drawing author through use of parameters.
What I have done is I have used a format with company title blocks when creating my template, and I add notes in my template using the '&' parameter to force the program to ask me to fill in the info when I create a new drawing.
The problem is that when I want to add a new sheet to the new drawing, the previously entered parametric values are not carried into the new sheet... and the new sheet does not ask for me to enter anything either. I have also tried doing the parametric notes in my format, but everything I put on the format is not accessible when I open a new drawing. What is it that I'm doing wrong?
Please help me on how best to setup up my formats and templates. Thanks.





RE: Drawing Formats v. Drawing Templates
I believe, that if your drawing template is referencing model parameters - you won't have this problem.
Try adding a model parameter like "DESCRIPTION" and then have the format call "&description" - and see what happens.
Best of luck.
cheers,
JW
RE: Drawing Formats v. Drawing Templates
Templates are just drawings started with a particular format & no model with template views defined.
RE: Drawing Formats v. Drawing Templates
What I did was I created the 2-sheet format with identical title blocks, then I created a 1-sheet template using the format and using the parameters I want.
When I start a new drawing using this template, the first sheet is fine, but the sheets after only have the format with no parameters.
RE: Drawing Formats v. Drawing Templates
RE: Drawing Formats v. Drawing Templates
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RE: Drawing Formats v. Drawing Templates
Parameters should move across multi sheets.
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RE: Drawing Formats v. Drawing Templates
Bart Brejcha Chicago
DESIGN-ENGINE|EDUCATION
http://www.proetools.com
surfacing and Pro/CABLE training