Set Drawing ID by Layout by defult on placement
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2025-02-05 02:01 AM
Hello, is there anyway to set the Drawing ID by Layout by default when i place on a layout?
Cheers
Josh
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2025-02-05 03:33 AM
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.
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2025-02-05 02:16 AM
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.
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2025-02-05 02:45 AM
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?
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2025-02-05 03:26 AM - last edited on 2025-02-05 03:29 AM by Barry Kelly
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.

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2025-02-05 03:33 AM
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.
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Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
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2025-02-05 03:41 AM
Legend, thanks.