topic Re: View ID reference in Title Type in Libraries & objects

View ID reference in Title Type

abraxis spera — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:56:57 GMT

Is there a way to Display the View ID in a title as shown in the image?

I have the project number in as autotext in the drawing description field, but the Drawing ID seems to be tied to the Layout or the View.

Thanks in advance

Abe

Re: View ID reference in Title Type

David Maudlin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:09:55 GMT

Abe:

Not sure exactly what you are looking for or how you arrived at the title in your screen shot, but looking at the NSC Drawing Title 2 14, the parameter AC_DrawingNumber passes along the ID assigned to the View.

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Re: View ID reference in Title Type

abraxis spera — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:00:40 GMT

I got that far, but AC_DrawingNumber seems to be attached to the settings in the image below. I can get the number from the view ID or the layout but not both. Any ideas?

I created the title shown with the NCS Drawing Title 14. I chose "Drawing Description" in the Additional Data field and added the View ID manually and the project number as autotext.

An explanation:
The firm I am working with uses this information to locate detail drawings from printed sets. They paste-up detail sheets for the draftsmen and this reference is used to tell them where to find the specific detail.

They previously entered this manually on the title in autocad. I am trying to automate the process using the view id for consistency in the Archicad project file.

Thanks for the reply and the signature tip.

Abe

Re: View ID reference in Title Type

David Maudlin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:40:36 GMT

Abe:

Now I understand the issue, and I don't see a solution, the AC_DrawingNumber gives either the view ID or the layout depending on the Drawing Selection settings but not both, and I don't see how to get this information some other way. I also tried the older <DRAWINGID> with the same result.

Sorry I don't have an answer.

David

Re: View ID reference in Title Type

abraxis spera — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:11:09 GMT

The View ID can come in as part of the drawing name. Is there a way to bring in the drawing name (By View: ID and Name) and delete the name leaving only the numbers as a workaround? The view id is always the first 6 digits e.g. 08-006 (category-number). Of course I would have to modify the name to omit the first 6 digits for the drawing title.
Not elegant, but I'm about to have the draftsmen enter that code 250 times to get this result, and on every job forward.

Is there a way to find the cel id separate from the Drawing ID setting? Perhaps I could just overwrite that number in the title object?

Thanks for indulging me.

Abe

Re: View ID reference in Title Type

David Maudlin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:48:38 GMT

abraxis wrote:
The View ID can come in as part of the drawing name. Is there a way to bring in the drawing name (By View: ID and Name) and delete the name leaving only the numbers as a workaround? The view id is always the first 6 digits e.g. 08-006 (category-number). Of course I would have to modify the name to omit the first 6 digits for the drawing title.
Not elegant, but I'm about to have the draftsmen enter that code 250 times to get this result, and on every job forward.

Abe:

I think this could work using the STRSUB command. An example that worked for me is:

view_no = STRSUB (AC_DrawingName, 1, 6)
view_name = STRSUB (AC_DrawingName, 7, 20)
Text2 0, 0, view_no
Text2 .05, 0, view_name

The first STRSUB pulls out the View ID, this is simpler if the ID is always the same number of characters. The second STRSUB pulls out the View Name, I set the length to 20 characters, but yours may need to be longer depending on the longest name. You will need to revise parts of your Title to use this, but that should not be too hard. The Drawing Name needs to be set to "By View: ID + Name".

David