Drawing formats and layout tabs

[tzinger]

Anybody develop any custom drawing Formats???

Here is my task and background thougths...
We currently have Acad 2005. We use layout tabs. Our Sht 1 has an attribute that contains all the pertinent info, dwg name , dwg number, date, sht X of X.

Our subsequent sheets contain another attribute with similar info dwg name , dwg number, date, sht X of X.

My task is to automate the subsequent sheets. Meaning have sht 2 format read the values of sht 1.

(I have figured out to use acad fields -ctab sysvar for the sheet numbers), but I cannot figure out how to count the total number of sheets or get dwg name, number, date, etc.
from sht 1.

Any help would be great....

 

[borgunit]

Do you know any programming like LISP or VBA?

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers

 

[tzinger]

No my Lisp background is very basic at best. I have only created multifunction routines and simple get statements....(okay I will be honest, I really just find code thats close and and I tweak it to fit my app)

Do you have anything that I can work with? I might be able to massage it to fit my needs....

Thanks...

 

[dpzinn478]

As borgunit implies, this project will either be done in lisp or vba/vb. I've done it in lisp (vlisp) and had fantastic success with it, but because it was such a time consuming process I would not give it away.

My program inserts formats, gathers the appropriate data from existing drawing formats (or from the file name if there are no existing formats), manages the rev level of all the formats, and a few other bell & whistle type features.

 

[borgunit]

May help some...

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=66906

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers