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How do the Drawing Borders work?

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The drawing borders use the following components:

 

Name

Description

Mock Border

Simply a blank drawing border which is placed in default model, at relevant scale

Drawing sheet

Cell placed in sheet model containing tags.  This provides unique content to each drawing

Sheet reference

Reference file attached to drawing sheet.  This contains the main graphics of the drawing border.  Client logos, location maps, etc would be placed here.  I.e. any thing that is NOT unique to the drawing.

Issue

Cell attached to drawing sheet for each issue revision

 

These are defined and activated from within the ProjectSettings.txt file and typically looks like:

Note:

1)Items in RED are customised

2)Items in BLUE are additional explanatory notes

 

# Title blocks

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

TitleBlocks

{

INSERTABLE                    YES

DEFAULTLAYER                  GX_DRAW_TTLB

DEFAULTSPACE                  PAPER

ISSUEFORMAT                           "01"

LOCATIONPATH                J:\123000\123456-00\Settings\CADtools_Ustn\Borders\

 

BORDER                            "A0 Vertical"                "Arup_ A0v_Text.dwg"        "Arup_A0v_Frame.dwg"                                "Arup_A0v_Mock.dwg"        "Arup_Rev.dwg"                “A0”

 

Note:

Refer to ProjectSettings.txt for explanation of this section.

 


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