topic Re: Help Creating Drawing Title in Libraries & objects

Help Creating Drawing Title

jd10003 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 04:01:35 GMT

Can anyone help me figure out how to create a custom drawing title. I'm migrating from AutoCad to Archicad and trying to match office standards.

I've tried adapting some of the standard titles, but can't get the font sizes to change independently, and I tried creating a new title type, but couldn't get it to stretch with the drawing size or to include a graphic scale. Attaching a screen shot from a PDF created in AutoCad for how it "should" look.

Any ideas??? thank you!!

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon Sonoma 14.7

Re: Help Creating Drawing Title

Lingwisyer — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 01:31:44 GMT

When you are talking about Drawing titles, are you refering to a Sheet titleblock, come Layout titleblock in AC? A Drawing in AC is a View Port which can have it's own title. In regards to titleblocks, have your refered to the default ones in your included templates?

Re: Help Creating Drawing Title

jd10003 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:59:57 GMT

Yes, I'm talking specifically about a drawing title, for the individual "view port" on a sheet. I've tried manipulating the various built in drawing titles that I see as available options but I don't see options to do much with how they appear graphically. For instance, my office standard drawing title has 3 different font sizes (the drawing number, the drawing title, and the scale are all different), but I only see an option to change them all globally.

This is how I need it to look. No circle for the drawing number, three different font sizes, and stretchable to the width of the drawing layout grid.

Do I have to get into scripting in order to make this possible??

Re: Help Creating Drawing Title

Barry Kelly — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 03:57:34 GMT

@jd10003 wrote:

Do I have to get into scripting in order to make this possible??

To do it properly - yes.

You can just place the text you want, it can be autotext for things like drawing name and scale and sheet number.

I can be the font and size that you want.

Basically create the title you want and then select and 'save selection as' > drawing title.

If you do a search you should find some posts about this.

I am not in front of Archicad to test, but I am not sure if you will be able to stretch it to suit different page sizes, of if you will have parameter control of the font and font size.

But if you can script it in GDL, you can do what ever you want.

Barry.

Re: Help Creating Drawing Title

jd10003 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:50:53 GMT

Thank you Barry. Yes, I tried the "save selection as" workflow, and I do get font control, but I don't get it to stretch to fit the grid cells I have set up in the page layout. I guess I could save out different versions that are 1-cell wide, 2-cells wide, etc etc. A bit clumsy, but would do the trick I guess.

I've never tried any GDL scripting so don't know what I'd be getting myself into in that regard!

Thanks.