Removing Sheet Set Manager Fields From Drawings

[vanpatter]

Hi,

I work for a multi-discipline consulting engineering firm. With different departments working on a project we use the sheet set manager quite extensively to stay organized on projects. We use the SSM to control things like sheet titles, sheet numbers, sheet sequence, etc. I have a client that does not want the drawing files associated with a SSM nor do they want to see the grey shading (highlighting) around the text field when we deliver the final files. When I remove the drawing file from the SSM the highlighting around the text field remains in the drawing file. The only way I have found to remove the highlighting is to click on the text and re-type the value. This project has over 160 sheets so having to manually open up each file and change the text manually will be very time consuming. Does anyone out there in AUGI land know of a way to remove the highlighting without having to open up each drawing file and re-type the text? Maybe someone has written a batch routine, Lisp routine or an ARX application that will do this? Any help with this issue will be much appreciated. Thanks.

Kris

[cadtag]

Are you using Mext or an Attribute?

[Paul Munford]

have you considered using Attribute extraction?
http://www.cad-notes.com/2009/12/rep...te-extraction/

[Paul Munford]

You can turn off the grey back ground using 'FIELDDISPLAY' set to 1 - but you would have to do this on your clients machine

Here's a thought on the other problem:
http://blog.jtbworld.com/2005/10/rem...-on-sheet.html

When you prepare a drawing set for transmittal - do you use the 'etransmit' feature?

[cadtag]

Well, there's no need to retype -- once the field is highlighted the right click menu should have a 'convert to text' option.

With 160+ sheets, and multiple fields on each drawing, potentially in either model or paper space, that sort of manual conversion will take time, and be prone to error. I'll suggest that you check the customization forums for an existing tool that would handle that conversion, or post a sample drawing and see if someone can come up with a quick routine to do it.

It is something I could see as being very helpful on a final archive set of drawings -- after all, once they are archived, I don't want anything changing so the flexibility of fields is a disadvantage in that situation.