Autodesk AutoCAD 2010: Basic 2D Concepts Tutorials
Converting Title Block / Inserting Title Block
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OK. So, we now have nothing in our Model tab here. There's our Model tab there. There's nothing here now apart from our Settings, like our Layers, for example, and our Text Styles and so on. I'm just going to hit Escape there to lose the Layer pull-down. Now, we don't need to draw anything in the Modelspace just yet. What we need to do now is we need to insert our Title Block into a Layout tab, and then sort out our Page Setup so that our Page Setup is A3 and our Title Block is A3, so that everything fits on the sheet of paper ready for plotting later. So, we have two Layout tabs available to us. We have Layout1 and Layout2. Now, what I could do here if I wanted to, was utilize things like my Quick View Layouts, and also my Quick View Drawings. That is entirely up to you. If you want to use those you can. Personally, I prefer the tabs here and that's the way I work. That's the way that this will be set out in this particular Course. So, let's click on Layout1. When I click on Layout1 you get this red box here, and that red box, you'll notice, is a Viewport when you hover over it, and its color is by Layer, and it's on the Titletext Layer, hence it is red. We don't actually need that Viewport right now. I'm going to click on it and just like any other AutoCAD object I can go up to Erase here on the Modify Panel on the Home tab, or I can hit the Delete key on the keyboard. What I'm concerned about is this white object here with the dashed lines. That is a sheet of paper and the dashed lines represent my Printer Limits, i.e., how far I can go before my printer stops before the edge of the paper. Those Printer Limits there are defined by your Printer Driver installed on your computer as part of the process when you install a printer or a plotter. From an electronic viewpoint, if you're plotting to PDF, or DWF, those Printer Limits are in there, but they are obviously electronic Printer Limits. So what we're going to do here, we're going to right-click over Layout2 and we're going to delete it; we don't need it. You will be prompted: Do you want to delete it? You say OK. We then right-click over Layout1 now, and go to Rename. We're going to rename the tab A3 Landscape. Do you see the theme now? The A3 Landscape tab is going to be a Page Setup and a Layout got out A3 ISO Title Block. Once you've renamed the tab press Enter and you'll see that Layout tab now is called A3 Landscape. What we now need to do is insert our Title Block. Now you can insert from the Home tab here, or insert using the Insert tab, it doesn't matter which. I'm going to use the Home tab and I'm going to go to the Block Panel here and click on Insert. Now you'll be pleased to see there's our A3 ISO Landscape Block that we created. What I'm going to do here is: Specify the insertion point on-screen by ticking that box there. Scale needs to be unticked there, and the X needs to be 1; one to one. Rotation, Angle zero because we want it horizontal in the orientation that we are used to. Now, what I'm going to show you here very briefly is just click on OK and you'll see there's our Title Block and it's asking for an Insertion Point. Type in naught comma naught, because that's where the block was originally created, remember? Press Enter. Now we get the prompts coming up on the screen on the Dynamic Input. These are our Attributes. So, I'm going to put in our drawing number there which is going to be 001-01; that's our drawing number on the Title Block; press Enter. Drawn By, that's going to be my initials, SCB; press Enter. Checked By, we don't know, so we just press Enter for the moment to accept the XXX. Approved By, we don't know, just press Enter to accept the XXX. Revision Ð it will be the Revision zero because it's our first drawing of this type, so we press Enter again. Now what's happened there is those attributes, if I just pan across slightly, I've now entered into our drawing. They can be edited at any time by just double-clicking on this block we've created. However, look, it doesn't fit on the sheet, so we right-click over the A3 Landscape tab, Page Setup Manager. We currently don't have a Page Setup for our A3 Landscape tab, so we click on New. New Page Setup name will be A3 Landscape as well. I find it's always good to set up a Page Setup with the same name as the tab. Click on OK. And all we're going to do here is I'm going to set it up to plot to a DWF6A Plot there in the Printer Name. Paper Size Ð I need to set that to an ISO A3, so we scroll down the list of sheets, ISO A3, and we want 420 by 297 for Landscape. What to Plot Ð we set it to Extents. We want everything to plot and then we center the plot. You may get red lines on the Preview here; that's because at the moment it thinks that it's still a smaller sheet size than the A3. I click on OK there now, and my A3 Landscape Page Setup is there. Notice the tab name has asterisks to define it from the Page Setup. I select my Page Setup, double-click, and it applies it to the A3 Landscape tab. I click on Close, and as you can see, my Title Block sits beautifully inside the Printer Limits with the outside edge of the paper around the outside edge of the Page Setup there.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Autodesk AutoCAD 2010: Basic 2D Concepts |
| Author: | Shaun Bryant |
| SKU: | 34013 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-56-4 |
| Release Date: | 2009-07-03 |
| Duration: | 7.5 hrs / 107 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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