Mitchell (the other one) Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 My Friday is feeling like a Monday . . . . VW 2021, when I create a drawing label its number style is drawing only. How do I change this to drawing and sheet? Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 (edited) I'm assuming you are referring to the new Drawing Label Tool. You can choose which style to add to the drawing using the pull-down menu in the mode bar. You can also edit, create and style any label to suit your needs now using the plug-in styles functions. Edited September 25, 2020 by markdd Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 And if you have an existing Drawing Label and want to change it, go to the "Style" dropdown in the OIP and choose "Replace." But still good to set your default as Mark described above, that way future Drawing Labels will be created with that Style. Quote Link to comment
Mitchell (the other one) Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 19 minutes ago, markdd said: I'm assuming you are referring to the new Drawing Label Tool. If you can choose which style to add to the drawing using the pull-down menu in the mode bar. You can also edit, create and style any label to suit your needs now using the plug-in styles functions. That was my thinking as well, however Drawing and Sheet don't seem to be an option. I could duplicate the style and create a drawing and number style . . . but this was already a option in previous versions. Why do I suspect one of the gurus will let me know it its now part of some automation and once configured all will be amazing? Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 (edited) What do you mean by Drawing and Sheet? These are the parameters that are available to you to use in any drawing label. Maybe you mean a data tag? You can add a drawing name with that. Edited September 25, 2020 by markdd Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 (edited) You're correct that it's no longer an OIP parameter, you literally just need to choose a different style that includes it as part of the layout. So choose "Replace" in the Style dropdown, then find one of the defaults that has both Drawing # and Sheet #, like this: Think of Styles as different symbols or pre-determined layouts for Drawing Labels. When you need different configurations you just switch which Style is being used. Edited September 25, 2020 by Andy Broomell 2 Quote Link to comment
Mitchell (the other one) Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 (edited) Thank you, that pointed me in the right direction. I had clicked Style > Replace earlier but had not drilled down to find the Drawing Label file in the Vectorworks Libraries. Edited September 25, 2020 by Mitchell (the other one) Quote Link to comment
Mitchell (the other one) Posted September 26, 2020 Author Share Posted September 26, 2020 A follow up question as I update my template to use Drawing Label styles. I can edit each style setting font and text size, however I can't seem to find the setting to get the word "Scale" to be all caps. I have selected the text in the Edit Drawings Label Layout and then set the font, size and the upper case - it still shows as capitalized lower case. In earlier versions there was an option to select capitalized or all caps. Can anyone point me towards the setting to control this in the drawing label style? 1 Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 The Scale part actually doesn't come from the text in the text block. It comes from the Define Drawing Label Field. This is accessed by the button at the bottom of the text block in the Object Information Palette . Just fill-in your uppercase lettering instead and all should be well. 1 Quote Link to comment
Mitchell (the other one) Posted September 26, 2020 Author Share Posted September 26, 2020 Ok that worked, thank you . . . . I would not have found that easily. I like the use of the drawing label style, set it up once and then it is always the way you want . . . but the configuring of the style itself seems to be still in programmer mode rather than user mode. Quote Link to comment
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