Yeah thats a good idea.  I will do that as i will always need more than 2 layouts. Hope ur well and many thanks for all ur help, God bless and i hope to speak with you soon.

 

Kc

 

Hope ur well, yes that is what i intend to do next so that everything is ready on the template, but i do need to know how to make multiple sheets for the same project, say where i may need 5 sheets. Meaning if i am drawing a number of drawings for a house with different views. ie ground floor, front, rear , before and after, it then needs to be on the same sheet, meaning everything looks same and proffessional.  I hope i have explained it well, but as you mentioned multiple sheets. If you are able to help on this matter that would also be much apprecieated.  Have a good day.

 

Many thanks

kc

 

 

 

 

I have followed your instructions and am very happy to say that i have managed to make a basic template as a test  and it inserts exactley as you have mentioned.  I wiil later on make a detailed template to use for my projects. You have been absolutely brilliant for ur help and i will indeed pass this on to anyone else who may need this as a reference.  I had been stuck on this for ages.  I wish you all the best and many thanks for ur help.

 

Kc

 

Many thanks for taking time out for all the step by step by information, i will try this very soon and see where i end up.  I will let you know, have a good day and once again many thanks.

 

Kc

Let’s start this whole thing from scratch and see ifsomething along the way helps explain how this title block thing works. You might see something below that you did inerror.  But once you get a basic block workingyou can add lots more bells and whistles. What follows below will start from a known environment so if somethingdoes go haywire for you we should be able to backtrack.

 

1)     Close all open drawings.

2)     On the big red “A” (the AutoCAD Applicationicon) click the little black arrow and select New to start a new drawing.  You’ll be asked to select a template.  Use the ACAD.dwt template.

3)     Now draw an 11x8.5 rectangle with the bottomleft corner at 0,0.  (RECTANG 0,0 11,8.5)

4)     Select the rectangle. 

5)     Click the Insert tab and select Create Blockfrom the Block Definition palette.

6)     Name the block TitleBlock.  Make sure the “Open in block editor” box atthe bottom is checked.  Leave the Basepoint and Objects “Specify On-Screen” boxes unchecked, leave the Annotative boxunchecked.  Select the “Delete” radiobutton and check the “Scale uniformly” and “Allow exploding” boxes.

7)     Click OK to open the Block Editor contextsensitive tab.

8)     In the Manage palette check the Block Authoringicon.  On the Parameters tab click “Basepoint”and place it at the lower left corner of your rectangle.

9)     Do one last thing before saving… select therectangle again and OFFSET it 0.375 to the inside.  Then Close the Block Editor and save theTitleBlock.

 

Now we’re going to do a little setup on the Layout1 tab.

 

1)     Click the Layout1 tab to open it.  Select the existing viewport and delete it.

2)     Now right click the tab and select Plot.  We’re going to set it up to create a DesignReview (.dwf) document.

3)     In the Printer/plotter Name: box, click the downarrow and select the DWF6 ePlot.pc3 driver.

4)     In the Paper size section scroll thru the listuntil you find ANSI full bleed A (11.00x8.50 Inches).

5)     In the Plot style table click the little blackdown arrow and choose acad.ctb.

6)     Click the Apply to Layout button and thenCancel.  The plot is set up, but we don’thave our title block on it yet.

7)     You should still be on the Insert tab, so clickthe Insert icon in the Block palette and select your TitleBlock block andinsert it at 0,0 using all the defaults. Click OK.

8)     The outside line you drew should be around theoutside edge of the white portion of the Layout.  The 3/8” offset line will be inside of that.

 

You can trick this basic block out all you want to addextra information, but this is the bare bones of it.  To plot something from the model you’ll needto add a viewport to this (VPORTS), set its scale and orient things the way youwant.

 

Hopefully this will get you started.

Addendum: 

I realized after writing this that in 2008 you may not be using the Ribbon, so some of these instructions may not make sense.  One thing for sure will be the Block Authoring palette (you may have it but might have to look somewhere else).  If the whole basepoint thing gives you trouble then Specify the basepoint at 0,0,0 in the Create block process.

 

Dave

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