VW2019 Titleblock, date

[Ride]

Hi.  I'm new to VW 2019 from 2016, and I find the new title block features less than intuitive.  I watched a video from Jonathan Pickup, and set up a new title block from scratch.  But, when I go the the sheet data, and change the date, it only changes it for the title block I'm editing.  How do I get it to update all the title blocks?  There must be a way but I'm not seeing it.  

[Tamsin Slatter]

This series of videos will help. Sheet data will only update on the current sheet. If you want information to update on all sheets, it will need to be Project Data.

 

[Ride]

Thank you.  I'll check this out.

[genie]

@Tamsin Slatter Our workflow is such that we have several files containing sheets for 1 project. Can titleblock project data(eg. date), revision, and issue data be updated across files? ie, can I reference in a titleblock style into 2 different files and update the titleblock from the root file and have the edits show up on the 2 files containing sheets. If not, what would be your recommendation for a work around?

TIA

[Nikolay Zhelyazkov]

Hello @genie,

 

You should be able to achieve this by using the Title Block Manager menu command and select the desired files that you wish to edit. Make sure you load the external files, in order to see all of their data and not only the default data.

 

Best Regards,

Nikolay Zhelyazkov

[JimNaish]

Hi.  The title block feature on VW2019 DOES NOT WORK...do not install this update!.  I have tried to resolve the issue where when importing drawings from previous versions the title block reduces each of the text areas and they cannot be adjusted back in the symbol edit.  Whether this applies to all symbols I don't know, but I'm sticking to VW2018.

[Nikolay Zhelyazkov]

Hello @JimNaish,

 

Could you be more specific what is the issue that you are experiencing and maybe send me a test file showing the issue?

 

Thanks,

Nikolay Zhelyazkov

[JimNaish]

Hi Nikolay

 

I attach a drawing sheet with my standard title block in VW2018.  All works fine with VW2018 but when opening in VW2019 the text boxes reduce and I cannot get them to re-size when I use the edit symbol.  This means that I cannot open any of my previous drawings and print them for clients...not acceptable.  I had this issue with VW2016 or VW2017 but the edit symbol worked and although it was a bit of a pain at least the work around worked.

 

I have been on VectorWorks since MiniCad but I am really getting to a stage where I think VW is not tested adequately before issuing and the yearly updating is putting too much pressure on the tech team...or they are just not thorough enough.  I will probably just not upgrade in the future and live with the bugs.  Better the devil you know!

 

Thanks

 

Jim Naish

VW_test.vwx

[Nikolay Zhelyazkov]

Hello @JimNaish,

 

I have opened your file and see no Title Blocks in it.

Are you sure you have issues with the Title Block Border object in VW2019? It seems like you are using regular symbols only.

 

Best Regards,

Nikolay Zhelyazkov

[JimNaish]

Hi Nikolay

 

The issue is with my title blocks not the Title Block Border. My title blocks were set up using a previous VW title block set-up.  If you can see the regular symbol you can presumably see that the text boxes are compressed?  That is the problem.

 

Thanks

 

Jim Naish

[Nikolay Zhelyazkov]

@JimNaish

 

I am not seeing any difference in VW2019. Could you make screenshots in VW2018 and in VW2019 showing the difference?

 

Thanks,

Nikolay Zhelyazkov