Total Number of Sheets?

RE: Total Number of Sheets?

David Renaud — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 17:06:54 GMT

Exactly.

I am more of a A-desk Civil 3D person. Now I get to manage both CAD platforms. Helps having multiple personalities - but I agree, there should only be one of us here. For the rest I want it to be as automatic as I can make it.

RE: Total Number of Sheets?

MaryB — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:47:01 GMT

I can definitely get behind making things as seamless and thought-less as possible. While I may love to get my hands dirty with all the CAD details, most people are not me (and there should really only be one "me" per office!). I want my users to have everything possible set up for them automatically, if I can get away with it.

RE: Total Number of Sheets?

Bob Rayner — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:38:42 GMT

[quote user="David Renaud"]I don't want them to have to think at all beyond entering in certain project info in someplace[/quote]

Good approach!

RE: Total Number of Sheets?

Bob Rayner — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:36:16 GMT

An alternate approach is to reference the title block with all common elements, include the /4.

RE: Total Number of Sheets?

David Renaud — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:25:51 GMT

Mary,

Thanks for the reply. If you look at my other post from today about automatically updating fields you may have given me a solution to that, too. It's a little more work than I want, but it might do.

We do not currently reference in the border/title block. We have a sheet model drawing with the border elements already in it that the design is referenced into and then the sheet model is copied within the same sheet dgn as many times as needed to get the total number of sheets.

If I use a reference file for the border/title block, my users would have to open it separately, make the edits for total sheet number, and the other fields that have to be updated. it is more work, and is essentially a "work around," but it could be made to work. I don't really want to have my users, who are field people 90% of the time - not CADr's - have to keep all this straight (I don't want them to have to think at all beyond entering in certain project info in someplace like File Properties), but it would work.

Thanks again :)

RE: Total Number of Sheets?

MaryB — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:08:36 GMT

We use Print Organizer with pen tables and text substitutions for that in V8i.
Of course, we only get away with that because all we submit are printed/PDF plan sets - we are not required to turn in CAD files. That means that we only tend to worry about sheet numbering when printing. (This does bite us in the butt for cross referencing sheets! fortunately, we don't do that often).

If you reference your title blocks/sheet borders, "last sheet" can be shown as part of that, so it only needs to be edited in one place to show up everywhere.

I'll be watching this to see what the advances have been!