topic Re: Set Drawing ID by Layout by defult on placement in Documentation

Set Drawing ID by Layout by defult on placement

JosWhite — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:01:57 GMT

Hello, is there anyway to set the Drawing ID by Layout by default when i place on a layout?

Cheers

Josh

Re: Set Drawing ID by Layout by defult on placement

Barry Kelly — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:16:54 GMT

Can you post a screen shot of what you want to see?

I am not quite sure what setting you are trying to change.

Simply pre-set the drawing tool settings before you place the drawing, or pickup settings (pipette tool) if you have already placed one.

Barry.

Re: Set Drawing ID by Layout by defult on placement

Lingwisyer — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:45:39 GMT

You are wanting to combine the typical drawing number with the sheet number? So something like S05 on A30 would become A30-S05 on a single line?

Re: Set Drawing ID by Layout by defult on placement

JosWhite — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 02:29:32 GMT

Hi Barry,

Of course:

By default views placed on layouts are placed with viewid setting, in my world views should be labeled by layout... currently i have to change every view after placing it.

In my screen grab you can see a newly placed view with no id showing.

Re: Set Drawing ID by Layout by defult on placement

Barry Kelly — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 02:33:27 GMT

As I thought.

Just change the drawing tool settings before you place the next drawing.

When you place a drawing it uses the defaults as set in the tool.

Or ALT+click an already placed drawing to set those properties as the tool defaults.

The defaults will remain set (in that file) until you change them again.

So you will need t set the defaults in every file you have, including your template.

Barry.

Re: Set Drawing ID by Layout by defult on placement

JosWhite — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 02:41:12 GMT

Legend, thanks.