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Paper Size as Autotext

Anonymous
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Small sweet wish:
I wish to have an Autotext showing the print size of the Master Layout its placed on.

When there are 3 Master Layout its not a big deal to write the paper size by hand, but when it comes to 25 different paper sizes it becomes an issue.

Its propably very simple to code.
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Erwin Edel
Rockstar

Yes please!!! Our workaround is autotext field that uses Layout Info Scheme. So we have to set the A1, A2, etc on the Layout Info. You can sort the layoutbook by master (tree by master) to set these up in bulk, but still.

 

We could set 'dumb' text on the master layout, of course, but that is not possible to use as autotext at that point (or in layout index).

Erwin Edel, Project Lead, Leloup Architecten
www.leloup.nl

ArchiCAD 9-26NED FULL
Windows 10 Pro
Adobe Design Premium CS5

....so you used e.g. the "Comment"-field? Must have been a bit risky if you needed to change master layout for drawings? But still - cool workaround. Just a shame workarounds are needed..

regards
David G

ArchiCad since 8.1

Mac Studio (2022) - Apple M1 Ultra
macOS Monterey 12.4
Erwin Edel
Rockstar

We use these fields:

ErwinEdel_0-1659007168296.png

 

You can set them up, create more etc here:

ErwinEdel_1-1659007198145.png

So in Dutch it says "modeller", "status", "date" (used for full notation) "date dd-mm-yyyy" (used for numeric notation), "Date change XX" and "page size".

Erwin Edel, Project Lead, Leloup Architecten
www.leloup.nl

ArchiCAD 9-26NED FULL
Windows 10 Pro
Adobe Design Premium CS5