Changing a layout number with a revision letter.

[Anonymous]

Our office wants to institute a regime whereby the reference number of a drawing is amended each time the drawing is revised.

(I've noticed that some practices use the layout name as the field for the revision letter - but we really want to keep this field for the name)

Our problem is that, after having done this, when publishing the layout, the resulting file sometimes has the original name (the one that it had when first published), rather than the new name, thus over-writing the previous revision of the published layout. This doesn't happen consistently. Today when publishing a set of 20 drawings, only 5 of them had file names reflecting the new name.

Is this a bug in Archicad? How do other practices get round the revision letter problem?

Also, how do most practices manage the outgoing data on their network? Do you have, for example, one folder containing the latest set of GAs which can be emailed on demand to consultants/contractors etc. Or do you keep a unique folder of drawings every time a set is issued, possibly named as per recipient? (the latter method requiring a new publishing path every time drawings are published)

Keith
Archicad Ver 12 on MAC OSX 10.4.8

[vfrontiers]

Thanks Keith...

Guess I better go Vote!

[Anonymous]

Go on, then!

[Anonymous]

Achille wrote:
For me, I think its a bug. Because it happens only sometimes and it is not logical.
If i change the number of a drawing for example 300 0200 to revision 4 from revision 3, the number of the drawing gets automatically updated in the publisher window. Then when publishing, the correct name of the file appears, but when i look to the folder the published pdf has a file name which is the number of the previous revision. This way the old revision drawing is replaced with the new one, and i cannot keep an archive.

Does anyone know if this bug has been fixed in release 14?

I recently tried altering a layout number by appending the revision letter, and when I published it noticed that the file name was correct. But my recollection is that this did not happen consistently, and I don't want to institute this method of working in my office if it's unreliable and run the risk of over-writing previous revisions.

[Fez1974]

No its not unfortunately. Although, it doesn't seem to happen so often for me now. Its a real pain when it does as it overwrites my old revision which I keep as a record.

[Achille Pavlidis]

Keith wrote:

Does anyone know if this bug has been fixed in release 14?

Keith, I haven't had this problem since a while, so I'm guessing it has been addressed...

[owen]

Problem has been fixed for a while in 14 ... can't say when exactly but its been at least since late last year. The last time i can remember it being a problem was on 13.

[Anonymous]

vfrontiers wrote:
Revision TEXT would be great.. but it has to be tied to EACH INDIVIDUAL LAYOUT... We could already use the PROJECT INFO for revision, but it will make a GLOBAL CHANGE..

If we could only access those CUSTOM TEXT items that are available in the PROJECT INDEX environment as an AUTOTEXT on the layout itself... then each layout could be individually changed and this number could be coordinated from INDEX to TITLE BLOCK...

Don't know if I've explained it clearly... but that's my vote...

In addition, I use these little custom texts to display UPDATE DATE on my index (sort of like an ISSUE DATE, but again, individual for each layout).. Would be nice to display that same info on the sheet itself.

Any progress on this?

I would like to use some of the 10 custom text fields present in Project indexes - Layouts to display info in my (custom) title block (using autotext). And in this way be able to edit title block from the project index (as in Revit ...)