T-FLEX Parametric CAD. Fundamentals. 2D Design

Fundamentals. Two-Dimensional Design
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After calling this command, the title block starts rubberbanding on the
screen. Point the cursor at the desired point in the 2D window and click
- the title block will be moved to the new position.
You can change the title block type and move the title block by selecting
the respective item in the context menu, which appears on right-clicking
the title block fragment.
The title block can also be filled directly in the drawing. To do that,
place the text cursor in the title block field, which needs to be filled, and
click . A blinking cursor will appear in the selected field, indicating
the readiness to input text, and a button with an arrow will appear next to
the selected field, serving to select a value from the list. Initially, the list
is empty (except for the fields in the “Date” column). If you need to fill
in the list in order to have list values available in the future, then in the
selected field enter the necessary text, and then select the “Add to List”
item in the context menu.
Since the title block is a drawing fragment, there is another way to apply
it - by using the command ‘FR: Create Fragment”.
Please note that, when inserting several title blocks into the current
document (for example, for drawings located on different pages), the
data from all title blocks will be bound to the same variables of the
current document. As a result, the contents of the fields “Drawing
Number” and “Title” of all title blocks will be same. As you edit fields
in one title block, the text will be changing in all the rest of them. To
disable this mode, you need to cancel the established relation with the
hidden drawing variables, and then define the new field value. To do
this, you need, regardless of the variable editing technique, call the
context menu for the respective field. In the menu, clear the check in the
“Insert Variable” item. After that, you can edit the text value in the
current field. To relate this field with a new variable, call the same
command again and define the name of the new variable in the
upcoming “Insert Variable” window.
When editing the title block using the dialog for editing fragment
external variables, you have another alternative. If you enable the
“Variables List” flag in this dialog, then, instead of a dialog with
interface control elements you'll see the standard list of the format frame
fragment external variables. Find the “$Drawing_Number” and “$TITLE” variables in it (the fields
“Drawing number” and “Title”), and replace their values with constants.
In some cases, you may need to suppress automatic binding of title blocks variables with the
variables of the current drawing. This may be needed, for example, when frequently creating
documents containing several different drawings. In such a case, it is more convenient to edit the
title blocks document itself, to have the automatic variable bindings suppressed on inserting it into
the current document. To do this, open the format frame document, go into the variables editor and
delete the contents of the “Assembly Variable Name” parameter from the above-listed variables.