Shibui Design Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 How does one edit the information in the new titleblocks. I've managed to place one, but can't edit it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 Hi ENV, The Title Blocks are just regular files that are referenced. If you want to make changes to a title block, just open it, edit it, and resave (or save as), and then you can access the new Title Block info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibui Design Posted September 8, 2015 Author Share Posted September 8, 2015 So for every sheet in my layout, I have to have a separate file that I edit in order for page numbers, dates,descriptions, etc.? How about a smart plugin-type object where I can simply edit these things and not have to create files everywhere? I just tried to place a drawing caption for "Top View" and here's what the resulting text looks like. BTW: the edit text dialog says "3D Text Editor." It would appear, since the resulting text displays as double lines, it's acting like it 3D text? Can we just get a simple 2d text object? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibui Design Posted September 8, 2015 Author Share Posted September 8, 2015 Should have mentioned the garbled text uses "Helvetica Neue" font on OSX 10.10.5 I do see some improvements to layout in 8.5 and I really WANT to like it. It still has some significant shortcomings to being a robust layout application, i.e. efficient titleblock, library of smart drawing captioning tools, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 When you check the Title Block option in the New Layout dialogue, click on Dictionary where you can fill in the Project Name, Project Address, Scale, and a few others. The Date, Sheet Number, and File Name are set to automatically adjust by default. For a full explanation on some of the new Layout features, please download the 8.5 Documentation HERE. If you create a New Sheet, it will automatically increment the page number. Anything else that will vary from sheet to sheet should not be included in the Title Block and just added on top of it. The Top View text with Helvetica Neue is also working fine for us: Perhaps you have a corrupted font? To solve this, run Fontbook (from your Applications Folder). Select all your fonts, go to the File Menu and choose Validate Fonts. (Make sure that it shows fonts as plural, and not just "font.") Disable any fonts that are found to have problems, and relaunch formZ. Are you then able to generate your text properly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugo Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 About title blocks in the 8.5. WIP version: again I still don't get a clue. In my case it still not works as aspected. It's not possible to add my own definitions, store them and use them in a new Layout file. My own definitions are not shown up in the new Layout file. I am still testing, but the fact that the webinar, which I watched several times, is not helping me further, says enough, unfortunately... pffff Ok, I will stop testing, and will wait again for a hopefully better version and more logical one soon this year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Hi Hugo, We replied to an email you sent yesterday about Title Blocks in Layout, did you not get our response or are you posting about a different issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugo Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Yes, I know, saw the mail after I posted here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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