LINK SCALE IN TITLE BLOCK

[harlowmatt]

Hi everyone,
You will have to excuse my ignorance on CATIA macro writing. I am trying to link my title block macro so that my scale size text is linked to the drawing front view scale in the properties dialog box. The rest of the title block info is pulled from the properties of the model. TitleBlock_Text_Scale_1 is the name of the text for the scale size. Any help with this would be great.

 

[drewmumaw]

@harlowmatt
Look at my response on this thread: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=384304[/url]

After you create the text box for the scale, right-click in the text box and select attribute link and select the top level of the drawing. Select "scale" in the list of parameters.

Drew Mumaw

http://www.textsketcher.com

http://www.drewmumaw.com

 

[harlowmatt]

THANKS DREW,
I AM WANTING IT TO AUTOMATICALLY PULL IN THE SCALE WHEN THE MACRO IS RAN,AS IT DOES THE REST OF THE INFO, THAT CREATES THE TITLE BLOCK.

 

[drewmumaw]

Sub CATMain()

Dim drawingDocument1 As DrawingDocument
Set drawingDocument1 = CATIA.ActiveDocument

Dim drawingSheets1 As DrawingSheets
Set drawingSheets1 = drawingDocument1.Sheets

Dim drawingSheet1 As DrawingSheet
Set drawingSheet1 = drawingSheets1.Item("Sheet.1")

Dim drawingViews1 As DrawingViews
Set drawingViews1 = drawingSheet1.Views

Dim drawingView1 As DrawingView
Set drawingView1 = drawingViews1.Item("Main View")

Dim drawingTexts1 As DrawingTexts
Set drawingTexts1 = drawingView1.Texts

Dim drawingText1 As DrawingText
Set drawingText1 = drawingTexts1.GetItem("TitleBlock_Text_Scale_1")

drawingText1.Text = drawingSheet1.Scale2

End Sub

Drew Mumaw

http://www.textsketcher.com

http://www.drewmumaw.com

 

[harlowmatt]

thanks, now I just have to figure out how to integrate it in to the title block macro so that it pulls this in instead of the default 1:1