topic Re: Drawing Title in Documentation

Drawing Title

krab-El — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:35:41 GMT

Hello everyone
I have a tricky issue to solve :
I placed one drawing in the layout and I want to show two different scales in the same drawing title. The reason why I do it this way is that sometimes I need to print the layout using different sizes ( A1 size: 1/100， A3 size: 1/200). Could someone help me to solve this issue?
Thanks for reading.

Re: Drawing Title

AllanP — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:37:20 GMT

Coding of the title would do it,

if the variable "ac_drawingScale" is in the title, that gets auto populated by the program as text i.e. 1:50

if ac_drawingScale # "" then !ac_drawingScale has been auto populated ax=split(ac_drawingScale,"%n:%n",aax,aay,aaz) !ac_drawingScale gets split into aax = 1, aay = ":" aaz = scale, i.e. aaz = 50 as anumber if VARTYPE(aaz) = 1 then !CHECKS IF aaz is a number variable type text2 0,0,"A1: SCALE=1:"+STR(aaz,1,0)+"-----A3: SCALE=1:"+STR(aaz*2,1,0) !STR(aaz,1,0) turns number back to text to combine with other text, i.e. "50" !STR(aaz*2,1,0) doubles the number and turns number back to text to combine with other text, i.e. "100" !output text A1: SCALE=1:Scale-----A3: SCALE=1:doubleScale !i.e. A1: SCALE=1:50-----A3: SCALE=1:100 endif endif

Re: Drawing Title

krab-El — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 05:56:49 GMT

Thanks for your answer. But I am still confused because I don't know where I should paste the code.

Re: Drawing Title

Lingwisyer — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:02:29 GMT

Unless you do it manually with plain text, you would need to code it into your title object.

File => Libraries & Objects => Open Object by Subtype... => General GDL Object => Documentation Symbol => Drawing Title

Your title should be listed at the above location. BUT, I assume you have not meddled with GDL before, so making the suggested modifications may not be the very practical...

Ling.

Re: Drawing Title

krab-El — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 01:11:10 GMT

Ok. Thanks for your contribution.