I've always found making or altering drawing templates difficult, due to custom properties place holders not showing. Is there anyway to show all the place holders?
I've always found making or altering drawing templates difficult, due to custom properties place holders not showing. Is there anyway to show all the place holders?
Yes agreed. Just to clarify....adding values to those things in the template will make them visible. Is that what you meant Glenn?
Dan Pihlaja wrote:
Yes agreed. Just to clarify....adding values to those things in the template will make them visible. Is that what you meant Glenn?
Yes. Adding values in the template would also work. I just thought that using an existing drawing (with those values already filled in) to edit the sheet format would be simpler.
Thanks that probably will work, just I'd have to put a drawing through 6 revisions to get the text to show, it would be nice if this was a little simpler.
John Layne wrote:
I've always found making or altering drawing templates difficult, due to custom properties place holders not showing. Is there anyway to show all the place holders?
If you have annotations linked to custom properties that don't exist in the template, you can 'see' them by displaying Annotation Link Errors:
The notes will look like this:
Works but to hard to select when text close together.
I'd suggest opening an existing Drawing that has information entered for those properties. That way they should be visible (I assume; I know nothing about PDM). After making your edits to the sheet format and exiting "Edit sheet" function, save the sheet format and close that file. Now you can close this Drawing, open your existing drawing template, update the sheet format, and re-save the drawing template. See What's the difference between a sheet format and drawing template? if you have any questions about any of that.