How to Create Customized Title Blocks

For any reason of your own, you might want to create customized Title Blocks. The application enables you to create your own customized Title Blocks as described in this document.

Title Blocks are .e2 files. The standard Title Block delivered with the basic application installation is stored in the "titleblock.e2" drawing file located in the "files\drwTBlocks" subfolder of your installation. Customized Title Blocks are stored in the drwTBlocks subfolder of your user folder.

To create a customized Title Block, proceed as follows.

1 Start the application and get ready to draw your Title Block. You are enable to:
  • Start a new drawing in order to start from scratch
  • Open the application default Title Block in order to start from a sample
  • Open an existing customized Title Block if you need to make a small change to it or if you need to create a new Title Block similar to an existing one
2 Draw or edit the geometry of the Title Block. Make sure that the lower left corner of the bounding box is in the Work Plane Origin.
3 Insert any symbolic texts displaying user defined properties or predefined properties. See the Document properties and Part properties tables below for a list of predefined properties:
  • Document properties.
    To add any of the properties of the list, start the Text command, select Document properties from the Text from Dictionary drop-down list and expand the branch:

    Double-click the property and drag the relevant symbolic expression in place.

  • Part properties.
    To add any of the properties of the list, start the Text command, select Part properties from the Text from Dictionary drop-down list and expand the branch:

    Double-click the property and drag the relevant symbolic expression in place.
4 Save the Title Block with the Save as Title Block command. The program will display the new Title Block in the relevant drop-down list of the Drawing Frame and Title Block command.
5 In order to verify your work, use the Drawing Frame and Title Block command and select the new Title Block from the Title Block drop-down list.
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