Better Revisions,Addendums 8.5x11

[FOUTJM]

Need way better tools to deal with Revisions.
painstakingly slow to do them now by duplicating views


this guy has a great idea.
http://forums.augi.com/showthread.ph...visions+8.5x11

[david.kingham]

Try this...just plop the titleblock on top of your existing sheet...print to pdf or dwf, then delete the titleblock....

[dfriesen]

Try this...just plop the titleblock on top of your existing sheet...print to pdf or dwf, then delete the titleblock....

Hey, that's pretty slick! Thanks for sharing.

[Dimitri Harvalias]

Very cool indeed. I might just borrow that one myself

[david.kingham]

No problem, we've used it on 5 or so projects now and it's worked really well

[dfriesen]

Try this...just plop the titleblock on top of your existing sheet...print to pdf or dwf, then delete the titleblock....

Ok, how do I fill in the Subject and Sketch number parameters? I'm assuming they're shared parameters, but I'm not sure how to get them to work once I've loaded and placed the titleblock on a sheet.

[dbaldacchino]

Great minds think alike Actaully a great thanks to Autodesk support for the tip offered regarding the use of nested generic annotations and their order in the family editor vs in the project....

The key to this technique is to have the big masking titleblock cover the entire sheet at all times and then setting the print options to Center. We're using a raster image for our logo and the generic annotation gets hidden by the generic annotation family. As a workaround, the masking annotation family works it's way around our logo and then the jpg/png was sized in such a way to fill the entire area that the annotation family doesn't mask. Works awesome as you don't need to mess around creating new sheets etc....just fix the original documents, print the revision with this masking titleblock and you're done.

I really wish there was a way to scale a titleblock any given amount (I know I know, not desirable but handy in a situation when you want to issue a revision at a different scale, perhaps a random "NTS" or some other scale that doesn't match the original document scale). I've been creating double sized titleblocks to be printed at 50% in order to achieve this. You can/should use a Dependent view of an original document sheet view for this purpose; that way you keep a record within the project file without having to adjust the view's crop regions manually.

[jfreauff]

I've built a masking titleblock for our office based on David Kingham's posted revision titleblock. Pretty great, but what I cannot figure out is how you would get the masking widow to be flexible via handles in the final project insertion. That way you would not need to "type" out the window sizes. (Quite often we only want to show a small strip of work.) The best I have been able to do is chain the window dimension parameters through to the project insertion as instance parameters that you can simply fill out on the fly. This still takes a few guesses to get it right however.

I am assuming the problem is a result of inserting the mask generic annotation into the titleblock family as a symbol, but this seems to be the only way to do it....

Anyone else try this?

[david.kingham]

I was just starting to post that no you cannot have grips...then the lightbulb came on, you can add an invisible line in the titleblock and give it the same parameter that controls the wipeout, I did a quick test and it did work but I'll have to clean some things up before i post an example and it's getting late...hopefully this helps get you started though

[jfreauff]

Very clever,

I built it in and it works great. Bit of an issue with assumed relationships between the titleblock lines & the new invisible lines, but a few more locked dimensions solved it all.

Now that the mask need not be "typed out, I can in theory use the "types" to swap the mask component to get an "L" & "T" shaped dynamic mask, which should cover all of the usual masking requirements.

I'll post my version of this when I get the multiple mask shapes to work smoothly.

Thanks for your help.