Possible to Have Multiple Scales in a Drawing Label?

[Danny H]

Hello,

In our practice we have up until now used symbols for our drawing labels on our sheets, using data records to input drawing titles, numbers & scales manually. I'm trying to make the switch to using the Drawing Label Tool for this as it can automatically populate the drawing number, title & scale but I have one problem. We usually include two scales - at A1 and A3. I can get the A1 scale to work automatically and I had hoped there would be a field definition function to 'double' the scale number but this doesn't seem to work for scales.

 

Current Field Definition: #Drawing Label2#.#Scale# '@' A1 / '@' A3

 

This would also improve our use of the Title Block Tool as our title blocks have both scales (A1 and A3) and I currently have to input the A3 scale manually each time.

Drawing Label Test.vwx

[Danny H]

(I have tried to find how to edit my signature, but don't see the option - I'm using VW 2023 SP4 and VW2020 SP6 on MacOS)

[Pat Stanford]

Directions for setting your sig are in my signature.

 

May have an answer for your math problem in Data Tag later. Close but no cigar yet.

[Pat Stanford]

I am out of ideas and time.  Sorry.

 

If you were doing this in a Data Tag or a Worksheet then it would be possible.

 

But in the Drawing Label, the #WS_ functions do not seem to be able to see the Drawing Label fields as Record.Field combinations to be able to modify the text to what you want.   😞

 

[Danny H]

Ah, that is a shame. Thanks Pat for your help!