daedalus Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Hi, In my office, the practice until now has been to use workgroup references to bring titleblock information into our drawings. Typically, the layers in the titleblock have been scaled 1:1 so they accurately coordinate with the final printed sheet size. The obvious drawbacks to this approach are the appearance of the extraneous "locked" layers that clutter up the organization palette and the problems with coordinating the titleblock information w/ the page location, origin (in both the working file and the reference file), the drawing itself, and the sheet layer consistently. With the new VW2008 design layer approach to workgroup references, the 1:1 scale approach doesn't seem to work because my design layers are typically at 1:96 or a similar architectural scale. When I import the workgroup referenced Titleblock, the design layer viewport with the titleblock is very small with the lineweights and text illegible. Obviously, this doesn't seem like an efficient way to get my titleblock into my drawing. I suppose I could change the scale of the titleblock reference file to the scale of the current drawing, but that might necessitate titleblock reference files at multiple scales, no? What are the preferred, recommended approaches for dealing with titleblock information in VW2008? I think the ideal result would include the ability to set up a single basic title block file at 1:1 scale for a specifically sized sheet (a template?); the ability to edit basic information in that file that will remain consistent throughout a drawing set (project title, date, revisions, "not for construction," etc.) but occasionally needs to be updated (say, to add an architect's signature for a permit set or change the date); and some reasonably straightforward way to add and edit information unique to each sheet but with consistent formating from sheet to sheet. It seems that with the addition of design layer viewports and the existing VW tools (symbols, templates, sheet layers, viewports, etc.) there must be some simple way to do this that I just haven't figured out. Any advice or ideas on the simplest, most efficient approach would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Craig VW2008 OS X 10.4.11 Quote Link to comment
Richard T Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Move to Australia and get the VAA Titleblock tools from Ozcad Quote Link to comment
daedalus Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 My boss will be so excited! It's summer there right? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tolu Posted January 28, 2008 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted January 28, 2008 Your title block should be a symbol in a resource file. Being a symbol, you can reference and place it where you want. With this method you don't have to reference in an entire layer. Also, if the title block needs to be consistent to an extent, you can use "record formats". There is a great example in the VW2008 user manual called "Creating a Custom Title Block". Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 I place my title blocks on the Sheet Layers - (1:1) scale where the "final" drawing will be - this allows manipulation via Class overrides to adjust final line weight, color, etc. Quote Link to comment
eas Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 We reference our titleblocks as symbols from a project symbol file. If you take into account that VW centers things easily, structure you symbol to be placed at the center of the sheet. This lets us easily have all of our sheets line up. Quote Link to comment
daedalus Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 Right on. Thanks to you all for the friendly and helpful advice! Quote Link to comment
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