topic Re: Autotext of #Drawing Name and #Drawing Scale in Documentation

Autotext of #Drawing Name and #Drawing Scale

Dalius — Fri, 26 May 2023 00:26:27 GMT

When I use Autotext of #Drawing Name and #Drawing Scale in my layouts, it shows not only the name and scale of each drawing, but also everything that is placed to that layout – schedules, photos, etc. Is it possible somehow to eliminate them from the list?

Re: Autotext of #Drawing Name and #Drawing Scale

DGSketcher — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:31:12 GMT

You can hide the scale in the layout by rt-clk on drawing then "drawing selection settings" > "properties" and unchecking the "include scale..." box.

I don't know how you would hide the drawing name.

Re: Autotext of #Drawing Name and #Drawing Scale

vistasp — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 10:39:10 GMT

Dalius, you might want to use <LAYOUTNAME> instead of <DRAWINGNAME>

Re: Autotext of #Drawing Name and #Drawing Scale

Erwin Edel — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:38:35 GMT

Or put the autotext in the saved view rather than on the layout. We've been doing this for years instead of using the drawing titles.

This only works for live views though, if you publish it as PMK and then link that, it won't work.

Re: Autotext of #Drawing Name and #Drawing Scale

Dalius — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:01:24 GMT

Thanks to everyone for the tips, but we still did not find a suitable solution.

DGSketcher wrote:
You can hide the scale in the layout by rt-clk on drawing then "drawing selection settings" > "properties" and unchecking the "include scale..." box.

DGSketcher, yes, it's easy to hide the scale. Sad, there is no such possibility with a drawing name!

vistasp wrote:
Dalius, you might want to use <LAYOUTNAME> instead of <DRAWINGNAME>

Vistasp, we use both Autotexts: #Layout Name and #Drawing Name in the title block. For example, #Layout Name is SECTIONS, but since there are several sections in one layout, #Drawing Name is SECTION A-A, SECTION B-B, SECTION C-C 1:100. Please look at the attachment.

Erwin wrote:
Or put the autotext in the saved view rather than on the layout. We've been doing this for years instead of using the drawing titles.

Erwin, the drawing titles are okay for us, we use them. We need to list the names of the drawings in the title block, that are loaded into the layout. However the names of schedules and photos appears as well, because they are placed as external drawings.

Re: Autotext of #Drawing Name and #Drawing Scale

Erwin Edel — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:58:11 GMT

Oh right, we have that problem too, with scale for example.

As a workaround, we duplicate our masters and place those elements on the master. It's not ideal, but it gets around the problem of the 'stamp' saying things we don't want.

Re: Autotext of #Drawing Name and #Drawing Scale

Erika Epstein — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 22:52:44 GMT

Will this do what you want:
Select the drawing on the layout you want the aut-text to reference. Right-click and choose "set as auto-text reference"
Instead of "Drawing Scale" in the list of auto-text, choose "Drawing Scale Ref".

If you have more than one drawing for which you want it's scale then repeat the steps with the next drawing, setting it as the autotext reference etc.

Re: Autotext of #Drawing Name and #Drawing Scale

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 07:26:54 GMT

We're having the same issues over here...

For this particular layout we could use a Sheet Index, but then when one Sheet has 3-4 drawings on it we have a different problem (unable to name all the drawings).