If you are looking to set up initials for a drawing creator, we use a draft template with our companies title block on it.
The drawing creator's initials are captured in the title block via a callout referencing the "manager" field of the draft documents properties.
Since the draft template has the creator's initials on it already, it is automatically used when creating a new document.
Not sure what else you would be using the initials for, but I am not sure what those listed uner profile woud be good for.
I think the Name/Initals and Mailing address are used for the 'Routing' of documents ie. emailing to other users as you would in a checking/approval sequence.
They are not properties of the file, so I dont think you can use them in property text.
Most people would use 'Author' or create a custom property that can then be accessed and changed in property manager.
thanks for your input. I will use author for this.
Another question:
is i have different sheets on a draft with differet parts on each sheet. on the backgroundsheet i have a titleblock with "title" of the part, but it show on all sheets the same. Can i access the variable from the part displayed on each sheet sepratly? If i use "|R1", on all title blocks the title from the part on the first sheet is displayed.. :-(
It might contravene drawing standards but yes can do it.
Couple of different ways but one might be to index the number after the 'R' until it matches the reference number of the model you want displayed - this will only work if you made views of the other part though, not if it's a configuration of an assy.
We don't use the part title in the drawing, we use a custom property of the draft file.
Kenat's method would not work unless you had a different background sheet for each drawing sheet - and that will just lead to confusion.
Just detail them in separate draft files, unless there is a reason for not doing that. I know some companies get into a panic because it costs X to issue a drawing whether its got 1 part or 20 parts on it.
CAD is very good at the 'unit drawing' method.
Beach, you're right, If forgot about that aspect. In which case you'd delete the callout from the background sheet and just add it in on the working sheet.
However, like you I have my doubts about what the OP is even trying to do.
we use now 1 draft for 1 part, but our manager wants us to investigate if its not better to collect all the parts of 1 assembly on 1 draft-file, but with different sheets... so all the draft are collected and stay together in 1 file.
I don't think there is anything in iso standards that dictates how many parts you detail per sheet, or whether you use unit drawings.
With regards to detailing your assembly parts on the same drawing as the assembly here is my suggestion because its something I've had to do in the past, although mostly when detailing a welded fabrication and its components.....
The first view on the drawing should be the assembly, so your draft file would then take the title of the assembly.
Other sheets would use the same background and would keep the same title but you would probably detail more than one part on each sheet. Then just label each part with a callout that uses the part title property. You would also add a balloon to identify the item number from the assembly.
Personaly, I would stick to unit drawings where I could.
I create tooling drawings for new fixtures/dies used to create 3rd party parts. As beach stated, it is possible to have an assembly on the first sheet of a draft, and detailed prints on subsequent sheets. I might have a 17 sheet draft file for a die.
The first sheet is an assy print, with subsequent prints being detail views of components to tht assembly. Using ttile callouts/ and mat'l/ heat treat req's, in assigned property fields; I am able to sucessfully detail components.
This however is an in house print, so it does not need to completely conform to ISO standards, which may have more to say on the practice.
Revisions do get trickey though, as you need to treat each sheet as it
s own revision, or record all revisions on sheet 1 of the draft.
I typically do not detail more than 3-4 parts on a sheet.
