LeeElston Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 Late on in a project, a client has advised they need all of their own drawing numbers on the tender documents, rather than the ones we have created so far. By default the Title block uses the sheet number to populate the 'drawing no' box on the Title block . I Can create additional fields in the 'Title block border settings' to create a client drawing number, which I can link the text in the title block to, but if I publish all of the sheets as pdf's, they will be titled from the Sheet number and title rather than the client drawing numbers wanted. Is there a way of creating a second sheet number list to run in parallel with the default list? I can just swap the numbers around but with a lot of drawings will be tedious and open to mistakes... TIA Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 Wouldn’t it be easier/safer to just renumber the Sheet Layers with the Client-requested drawing numbers? That way all of the detail references / callouts will also have the correct sheet references. Quote Link to comment
LeeElston Posted January 23 Author Share Posted January 23 The client drawing no is 25 characters long - label markers etc will be difficult to read to say the least...And I still want our drawing numbers - they make sense... 1 Quote Link to comment
Tom W. Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 47 minutes ago, LeeElston said: but if I publish all of the sheets as pdf's, they will be titled from the Sheet number and title rather than the client drawing numbers wanted. If this is the crux of the problem can you not just create a custom naming scheme in the File Export Options that gives the PDFs the name you want? 2 Quote Link to comment
LeeElston Posted January 23 Author Share Posted January 23 That might be an option... I'll have to investigate how to do it though - not a clue at the minute!! Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 (edited) Do you use Bluebeam for Windows? If so, it has a function where you can define a region on the PDF for the sheet title, and it will automatically renumber the sheets in the PDF accordingly. Edited January 23 by rDesign Quote Link to comment
LeeElston Posted January 24 Author Share Posted January 24 18 hours ago, Tom W. said: If this is the crux of the problem can you not just create a custom naming scheme in the File Export Options that gives the PDFs the name you want? That's ideal - thanks Quote Link to comment
Tom W. Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 3 minutes ago, LeeElston said: That's ideal - thanks Cool Quote Link to comment
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