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   Hi Dave,

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

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kc13 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 02.Jan.2012 Location: United Kingdom Using: Autocad 2024 Status: Offline Points: 50	Topic: Title block insertion Posted: 21.Nov.2012 at 21:52
	Hi Dave, 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
	kc

heinsite Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 05.Feb.2009 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD 2014 Status: Offline Points: 640	Posted: 19.Nov.2012 at 05:58
	If I understand the question correctly the solution is fairly simple. If you know ahead of time that you want to have several sheets then all you need to do is copy the Layout and modify the viewport(s). Simply right click the layout and click Move or copy. Be sure to click the little box on the bottom to Create a copy. Then just place it where you need it. You can have as many layouts in a drawing file as you'd like. Some people like to have only one layout per drawing (sheet) and others have many. It's completely up to you. One of the things I like about a drawing with many layouts is it allows good use of the Publish command. Just select all the layouts and publish them at one time. Dave
	Dave Hein, P.E. Hawaii District Engineer Kona International Airport AutoCAD Certified Professional Autodesk Expert Elite

kc13 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 02.Jan.2012 Location: United Kingdom Using: Autocad 2024 Status: Offline Points: 50	Posted: 18.Nov.2012 at 15:35
	Hi Dave, 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
	kc

heinsite Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 05.Feb.2009 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD 2014 Status: Offline Points: 640	Posted: 17.Nov.2012 at 22:03
	Trust me, KC, you weren't the only one stuck on that for ages! I was too once! This is just my way of shortening the time frame for someone else. The next thing worth studying that will really make this useful is block attributes. As you refine your title block, include attributes in it for things like dates, sheet numbers and other content. And you can also use custom fields that you create and update via DWGPROPS. The best example of how to use this might be this: Create a new field via DWGPROPS called ProjNo and give it a sample project number. Then in your title block create a text object and insert the field name of ProjNo. Now, if you use this title block on multiple sheets, all you have to do is change the value of ProjNo one time in DWGPROPS and it will be updated (after a REGEN or REGENALL) on all the sheets where it occurs. Whenever common content appears in multiple locations a field value is the answer. I ensures nothing is missed and everything is consistent. Good Luck! Dave.
	Dave Hein, P.E. Hawaii District Engineer Kona International Airport AutoCAD Certified Professional Autodesk Expert Elite

kc13 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 02.Jan.2012 Location: United Kingdom Using: Autocad 2024 Status: Offline Points: 50	Posted: 17.Nov.2012 at 14:02
	Hi Dave, 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
	kc

kc13 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 02.Jan.2012 Location: United Kingdom Using: Autocad 2024 Status: Offline Points: 50	Posted: 17.Nov.2012 at 12:22
	Hi Dave, 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
	kc

heinsite Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 05.Feb.2009 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD 2014 Status: Offline Points: 640	Posted: 16.Nov.2012 at 08:22
	Let’s start this whole thing from scratch and see if something along the way helps explain how this title block thing works. You might see something below that you did in error. But once you get a basic block working you can add lots more bells and whistles. What follows below will start from a known environment so if something does go haywire for you we should be able to backtrack. 1) Close all open drawings. 2) On the big red “A” (the AutoCAD Application icon) 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 bottom left corner at 0,0. (RECTANG 0,0 11,8.5) 4) Select the rectangle. 5) Click the Insert tab and select Create Block from the Block Definition palette. 6) Name the block TitleBlock. Make sure the “Open in block editor” box at the bottom is checked. Leave the Base point and Objects “Specify On-Screen” boxes unchecked, leave the Annotative box unchecked. Select the “Delete” radio button and check the “Scale uniformly” and “Allow exploding” boxes. 7) Click OK to open the Block Editor context sensitive tab. 8) In the Manage palette check the Block Authoring icon. 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 the rectangle again and OFFSET it 0.375 to the inside. Then Close the Block Editor and save the TitleBlock. 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 Design Review (.dwf) document. 3) In the Printer/plotter Name: box, click the down arrow and select the DWF6 ePlot.pc3 driver. 4) In the Paper size section scroll thru the list until you find ANSI full bleed A (11.00x8.50 Inches). 5) In the Plot style table click the little black down arrow and choose acad.ctb. 6) Click the Apply to Layout button and then Cancel. The plot is set up, but we don’t have our title block on it yet. 7) You should still be on the Insert tab, so click the Insert icon in the Block palette and select your TitleBlock block and insert it at 0,0 using all the defaults. Click OK. 8) The outside line you drew should be around the outside 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 add extra information, but this is the bare bones of it. To plot something from the model you’ll need to add a viewport to this (VPORTS), set its scale and orient things the way you want. 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 Edited by heinsite - 16.Nov.2012 at 08:26
	Dave Hein, P.E. Hawaii District Engineer Kona International Airport AutoCAD Certified Professional Autodesk Expert Elite

philippe JOSEPH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 14.Mar.2011 Location: France Using: AutoCAD Mechanical 2017 Status: Offline Points: 1493	Posted: 15.Nov.2012 at 14:20
	Hello, if your block doesn't come with the good scale, verify in your different files that in the DDUNIT panel your INSERTION SCALES are with the same ( or correct ) values ( mm , inches , meters etc... ). When you have inserted the block, open the properties panel ( CTRL + 1 ) and read the selected block scale values that you can directly change. Ask for more if not OK for you.

kc13 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 02.Jan.2012 Location: United Kingdom Using: Autocad 2024 Status: Offline Points: 50	Posted: 15.Nov.2012 at 13:08
	Hi everyone thanks for all your replys. I tried some of your suggestions but none seemed to work. But i have since made a new title block 11x8 and tried to insert it. it now comes to layout but is very small. what am i doing wrong here? Any help again would be much appricieated, many thanks again
	kc

heinsite Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 05.Feb.2009 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD 2014 Status: Offline Points: 640	Posted: 14.Nov.2012 at 09:04
	Well, I hope that the original poster (OP) will check in at some point and tell us how he (or she) is doing and if any of this has helped. Dave.
	Dave Hein, P.E. Hawaii District Engineer Kona International Airport AutoCAD Certified Professional Autodesk Expert Elite

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