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Adding attributes with fields to the title block

Adding attributes with fields to the title block

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Adding attributes with fields to the title block

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- Let's continue adding attributes with fields to this titleblock. Select the titleblock, right-click and choose Block Editor. Zoom in in the lower right-hand corner and create a new Attribute Definition. This one is going to appear in this area and it will be the sheet name. So I'll type SNAME as the Tag. And then the Prompt, we'll say Sheet name. The Default will be a field, CurrentSheetTitle, right here. We'll use Title case for that text, OK. Let's justify that Middle center with the Title Text style. And this is 1/2 inch in this vertical dimension, so the Text height here should be half of that. Let's call that .25000, OK. And then I'll just click an arbitrary point over here for right now. Then draw a temporary line across the diagonal of this rectangular box. Move the Attribute Definition from its insertion point to the midpoint of the line. Then delete the line. You can save time, in some cases, by copying existing attribute definitions. I'll copy this one from here to here…

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