Drawing Label OUTSIDE the viewport

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One of my 'other' bugbears is the fact that the drawing label only works within the viewport annotation.  When I say 'works' I mean it has been design to operate inside a viewport annotation so that it reports the information it can find that is associated to the viewport, such as 'scale'.

 

Outside, and it says 'Actual Size' or whatever custom value is your default.

 

I don't know about anyone else but we have strict drawing layouts and the position of the drawing label is defined by the sheet template.

Current behavious is:

a, edit the viewportr annotation, place the label in the viewport annotation, whilst showing other objects

b, to reposition it, edit viewport annotation, whilst showing other objects...

 

Desired behaviour:

c, place drawing label directly on the sheet, and associate to the viewport as one would associate a data tag to a door.

 

I have tried to build a data tag to do this, but it does not appear to be able 'see' the information in a sheet layer viewport.  It must be there though since the Drawing Label can see it.

It would be good to be able to create a Data Tag to report the information found in the Viewport but remain outside of the Viewport Annotation.

 

This would overcome the irritation when viewports move and one has to constantly reposition the drawing label.  Drawing Labels are part of the sheet, not necessarily the viewport.

Edited September 25 by shorter

[rDesign]

21 minutes ago, shorter said:

This would overcome the irritation when viewports move and one has to constantly reposition the drawing label.

I could see this as being a good improvement where you have one or two drawings on the Sheet.

 

But when you have a Sheet of smaller SLVPs or a Sheet of Details, I could see having Drawing Labels directly on the Sheet being counterproductive — you could increase the risk of the user moving drawings too far and getting confused about which Drawing Label is referring to which SLVP.

 

I think a Data Tag which can read the same info as the Drawing Label would be a good solution as is suggested.

Edited September 25 by rDesign

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Our proforma sheet template indicates the location of drawing or detail on the sheet.

 

There is a drawing label there already filled in with drawing number, i.e. 'Detail 1', and expected scale, but the scale and drawing title is entered manually at the moment.

 

I would like to be able to simply 'associate' the drawing title i.e. data tag, to the viewport after placement of the viewport, and it automatically pull in the information (and populate the information) from the viewport.

 

If the viewports are named correctly, then I would not expect it to cause too much confusion.

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2 hours ago, rDesign said:

 

I think a Data Tag which can read the same info as the Drawing Label would be a good solution as is

I voted for the original suggestion but prefer the Data Tag suggestion.  Either or both would be great.