Solidworks drawing border tolerance block text scaling issue 1

[GBVisuals]

Hi All,

Hopefully someone can help me with the following two issues:

1) I have a problem with my tolerance box block text, when scaling the sheet properties from say 1:1 to 1:20 the text within the tolerance box block becomes huge ie scaled up along with the sheet properties scaling. How do I keep it at the size within the tolerance box block regardless of scaling the sheet properties?

I created a new drawing border .slddrt and inserted this sheet format into my drawing template .drwdot. I then inserted a tolerance box block into the .drwdot template file. All is fine until I change the scale in sheet properties. Only the tolerance block has text scaling issues.



2) Another problem arose - after creating a new drawing border I checked it worked by entering a value in the drawing border custom properties ie revison at A and I am now unable to delete the value, so the new drawing always defaults to this value. I've tried changing the 'edit sheet format' by deleting the text and inserting a new text then saving sheet format as the same title (overwriting existing file) and it still defaults back to the original value.
How do I change it so a different value can be entered when opening a new drawing?


Any ideas how to fix these problems would be appreciated.


Many thanks

GBVisuals

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

1) If you put the tolerance block into the sheet format you should not have that problem.

2) Make sure the File Locations and Default Templates are pointing to the same location.
Look into using the Property Tab Builder for custom property generation.

 

[EEnd]

1) I suspect that the text might be on the sheet rather than the sheet format.

2) For some reason the property editor does not accept making the property empty. I just use a single space. A macro might be able to set it back to an empty string.

Eric

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

The Property Tab Builder allows empty Value/Text Expression fields.

 

[GBVisuals]

Many thanks for your replies. Apologies for the slack response but I've been a way for a few weeks!

You are both correct - the tolerance block was on the sheet rather than sheet format!

I've had a play with property tab builder - how do you get the new tab template to link to a sheet either new or existing? can it replace an existing custom properties table?

Regards
GBVisuals