topic Re: Autotext in drawing titles in Documentation

Autotext in drawing titles

Anonymous — Fri, 19 May 2023 20:13:24 GMT

We want to be able to combine the <PROJECTNUMBER> with the <DRAWINGID> to become the Drawing Number, so when the drawings are published as a PDF the project Number is automatically included in the PDF's filename, and save us having to manually insert it each time.

Is there a way of doing this that is simple and easy to understand.

Thanks
Ian C

Re: Autotext in drawing titles

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 13:52:16 GMT

If I understand you correctly it's easy.

We set the Project Number in Info (File / Info / Project Info) under item 3 (Project Number) which is stored as #Pln

The Drawing Number is assigned in the Layouts Navigator in the top left hand box of the 'Properties' window, and is stored as #LayID

Drop these 2 variables into your title box, adding any characters you might want as separators (e.g. we use backslash: #Pln/#LayID)

This is then the appended to the drawing title when the drawing is published as a PDF, except that in our case we always get a warning message that the backslashes have been converted to underscores because the operating system doesn't like backslashes!

Hope this helps.

Re: Autotext in drawing titles

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 01:43:24 GMT

Thanks Keith, but does not work on our system.

Still just has the drawing number #LayID

Ian C

Re: Autotext in drawing titles

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 11:20:18 GMT

Yes, I'm sorry. You're right of course.

The project number / drawing number combination appears on the layout but not in the name of the PDF file.

It would certainly be useful if it did! Another wish for Graphisoft I guess.