Drawing Formats v. Drawing Templates

[qbui]

Hello,
I would like to create a standard drawing that I can use for my company that would automatically ask for the drawing name and drawing author through use of parameters.

What I have done is I have used a format with company title blocks when creating my template, and I add notes in my template using the '&' parameter to force the program to ask me to fill in the info when I create a new drawing.

The problem is that when I want to add a new sheet to the new drawing, the previously entered parametric values are not carried into the new sheet... and the new sheet does not ask for me to enter anything either. I have also tried doing the parametric notes in my format, but everything I put on the format is not accessible when I open a new drawing. What is it that I'm doing wrong?

Please help me on how best to setup up my formats and templates. Thanks.

 

[ttx]

qbui,
I believe, that if your drawing template is referencing model parameters - you won't have this problem.
Try adding a model parameter like "DESCRIPTION" and then have the format call "&description" - and see what happens.

Best of luck.

cheers,

JW

 

[dgallup]

You can also make multi sheet formats where the second format sheet is used for the second & all additional sheets. Generally, the second sheet format can be much simpler.

Templates are just drawings started with a particular format & no model with template views defined.

 

[qbui]

Thanks for the replies. I tried the multi sheet format, but what happens is that the second sheet does not contain any of the parameters in the first sheet.
What I did was I created the 2-sheet format with identical title blocks, then I created a 1-sheet template using the format and using the parameters I want.
When I start a new drawing using this template, the first sheet is fine, but the sheets after only have the format with no parameters.

 

[robertib]

The best option is to put the parameters into the drawing format. That way, they will be used whenever you create a new sheet, or even if you just change the format.

 

[proetools]

The trick is to design the format so the fields automatically fill out using parameters from part or assembly.

Bart Brejcha Chicago
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[proetools]

I tried to edit my post to no avail... because I noticed robertib above me answered the same.

Parameters should move across multi sheets.

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[vpl]

proetools

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[proetools]

editing posts like that is not cool. I spell something wrong and re-read my post I'm stuck till someone else can modify it. Ouch.

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