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actually, that was a genuine error!
Most people ask me if Socrates really said that...of course, I've never checked, as the quote implies.
It's funny on so many levels.
Anyway, is there a way of using something like xrefs in Inventor? Anyone know? Excessive accuaracy is a sign of poor breeding. -Socrates.
Most people ask me if Socrates really said that...of course, I've never checked, as the quote implies.
It's funny on so many levels.
Anyway, is there a way of using something like xrefs in Inventor? Anyone know? Excessive accuaracy is a sign of poor breeding. -Socrates.
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Uh oh, I'm talking about the 2D aspect, which I use for creating the paper-copy layouts for the shopfloor.
So if I've got some "boilerplate" text, with a few drawings common to every 2D layout, I can't reference it from a common file?
i.e., if I have to make a change to my common drawing, I'm gonna have to open EVERY instance, (thats a couple of thousand 2d drawings) and edit it, rather than just a single file that will make the change across the board?
I think Autodesk made a bit of an oversight there... Excessive accuaracy is a sign of poor breeding. -Socrates.
So if I've got some "boilerplate" text, with a few drawings common to every 2D layout, I can't reference it from a common file?
i.e., if I have to make a change to my common drawing, I'm gonna have to open EVERY instance, (thats a couple of thousand 2d drawings) and edit it, rather than just a single file that will make the change across the board?
I think Autodesk made a bit of an oversight there... Excessive accuaracy is a sign of poor breeding. -Socrates.
Create a template file (any IDW that you decide you want as a template) with the appropriate text images or what ever in it. Put the template file in the templates directory. I think that if you need to change it though after creating drawings, you still need to open them manually. I think that someone has written code or something to do it, but I'm not sure.
I just had a thought, that you could put the boiler plate text in an excel spreadsheet and link to it, not sure about doing that from and IDW though.
Regards
Steve
I just had a thought, that you could put the boiler plate text in an excel spreadsheet and link to it, not sure about doing that from and IDW though.
Regards
Steve
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