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RoboDemo Monday, March 15, 2004

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Title Block-Editing

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Fig 2 - Select the Job/Spec Setup menu

Fig 3 - Click on "Fabrication Drawings"

Fig 4 - Click the Select Layout button

Fig 5 - The Layout Selection Screen opens

Fig 6 - Select the layout, LeglInsp.ASL This is the legal sized layout, with the inspection information.


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Fig 7 - Select this layout by clicking the "Open" button

Fig 8 - Click the OK button

Fig 9 - Click the next OK button, to return to the main program screen. At the main program screen, access the drawing screen by choosing "Fabrication Drawings".

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Fig 13 - In this example, the Weldneck flange is chosen.

Fig 14 - Remember to use a Left Click, to accept the image, and set the item number.

Fig 15 - Press Escape to remove the Fittings Menu, then Click in "open space" to display the options menu.

Fig 16 - Select Note from the menu. Notes are moved around the screen with the number pad and the arrow keys. Toggle the note with the spacebar, which will turn it from sloped, to flat, to upright, to perpendicular, and back through the choices again. Select a note by clicking on the lower left corner of that line of text. Selected notes appear in red. Selected notes can be resized by using the 'Shift - Up or Down Arrow keys'.


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Fig 17 - Add your company's information, which you want to display in your Title Block, into the text box.

Fig 18 - When the text is to your satisfaction, click the Done button

Fig 19 - Next, use the number pad keys and the arrow keys to move the text into position in the title box. Use the SPACEBAR to toggle the text from sloped to flat.

Fig 20 - Press ENTER to accept the text, the text will be displayed in Black. You can use Shift - Up/down arrow keys to size the selected text larger or smaller.

Fig 21 - From the "Set" menu, choose "Selected Notes as Title Block"

Fig 22 - Select "Zoom Window", and then use the mouse to draw a box around the Title Block area to enlarge it. This is only to make our work easier to see - its not mandatory.


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Fig 24 - This area may not look exactly true at the moment, but let us continue.

Fig 25 - Highlight one line of the text to alter the size and position of this one line. Selected lines of text, can be worked with, and positioned individually, up until we actually set the text as title block. After it is set, the text as title block text, you will need to use the "Edit Title Block Text" feature to change the text, and size, or highlight to remove the text and begin again.

Fig 26 - Click the Done button


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Fig 27 - Use the keystroke combination "Shift - Down Arrow" to size the text smaller.

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Fig 29 - Select another text line by clicking on the "hot Spot" found on the lower, left hand corner of the line of text. Press the enter key when you are finished working with a line of text.

Fig 30 - Click the "Next note too" button if you would like to edit more than one line of text at the same time.


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Fig 31 - Click the Next note too button

Fig 32 - Click the Next note too button

Fig 33 - Click the Done button

Fig 34 - Now all of the text within the title box is highlighted in red.

Click on the "Set" menu.

Fig 35 - Press Enter to display the Title Block Text in black, then choose "Selected Notes as Title Block" from the menu

Notes in the Title Block area are then saved.

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Fig 37 - Once again - click in open space to display the alternate menu. Choose "Zoom Out" or "Zoom All" from the menu to resize the drawing sheet.

Fig 38 - Once more select the "Set" menu and choose "Edit Title Block Source" from this menu.

Fig 39 - The TitleBlock.txt coordinates are displayed in Notepad. You can edit the coordinates for the text size or the numerical value for the X and Y coordinates for the text positioning.

Fig 40 - I have decided that I want to have a different font in my title block text. At the top of the page you will see the font name "Arial". I will replace it with "Times New Roman"


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Fig 42 - If you change the font, make sure you type the correct spelling for the font. This must match the choices available for your windows font choices in notepad.

You do not have to change the font, but it may be valuable to know how to change the font. When finished select "Save".

Fig 43 - Click the Close button and you are prompted to save the changes.

Fig 44 - Select the 'Zoom Window' from the menu


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Fig 45 - Lets check out our changes and the new font. Once again, create a box around the Title Block Text to resize the area.

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Fig 48 - Select the F4 key to re-read the page. We should exit this drawing screen without saving it. Select the Zoom Out option from the menu

Fig 49 - Select "Exit" from the "File" menu

Fig 50 - AcornPipe then asks you if you want to save this drawing.


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Fig 51 - Click the No button

Fig 52 - Click on the Fabrication Drawings button to re-enter the drawing screen.

Fig 53 - The AcornPipe window opens to display your new title block text.

Fig 54 - Select Zoom Window from the menu if you would like a 'close up' view.

Fig 55 - Once again, draw a "Zoom Window" around the area.

Fig 56 - Zoom window in progress


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Fig 57 - Zoom window is completed. Doesn't our text look great!

Fig 58 - Once more display the alternate menu and select Zoom Out from the menu

Fig 59 - Select the Open Existing Drawing from the "File" menu

Fig 60 - Select any drawing you want to open, I have selected 000603.apf

Fig 61 - Select the Zoom Window once again from the menu.

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Fig 63 - Now that the title block is set, any changes we make now, will need to be done as an edit. Select the Edit Title Block Source from the menu

Fig 64 - The TitleBlock.txt file opens in Notepad

Fig 65 - The Text Scale can be altered here on the TitleBlock.txt screen as displayed in notepad.

Fig 66 - I have edited the first line of Text (Your Company Name) scale from .83333333 to a whole number 0.9

Fig 67 - I will change the text scale for the lower lines to change them from .83333333 to a smaller scale, by using the number 0.7

Fig 68 - Edit of scale is complete on this item, "Your Company Address"


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Fig 69 - Editing the next Title Text Box line (Your Phone Number)

Fig 70 - Editing the last line of the Title Block Text, to make it a 0.7 size instead of the 0.8333333

Fig 71 - Select the Save item, or use the keystroke combination of Ctrl+S

Fig 72 - Click the Close button or select "File" and then choose "Save".

Fig 73 - Once again, use the alternate menu to create a "Zoom Window" around the Title Bock.

Fig 74 - Note that lines #1, #2, and #3 are now in a smaller text than the first line of "Your Company Name".


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Fig 75 - Once more select the Edit Title Block Source menu

Fig 76 - The TitleBlock.txt file opens to Notepad

Fig 77 - Move the text in the title block area to fine tune its position. Change the coordinates for the third and fourth line of Title Block text to 1550, which indents the text a little more than the previous line.

Fig 78 - Change the last line of the Title Block Text to also have an X coordinate of 1550

Fig 79 - When finished select "File" then "Save" or use Ctrl+S to save

Fig 80 - Click the Close button


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Fig 81 - The changes we made are now evident. We have changed the Font from Arial to Times New Roman, and we have altered the Text size a little, and we have changed the X coordinate to move the lower lines of the Title Block to the right, indenting it.

Fig 82 - I want to indent the second line a little more, so I will select the "Edit Title Block Source" from the "Set" menu.

Fig 83 - The TitleBlock.txt on Notepad opens

Fig 84 - Select the [Text nX] line and alter the numerical value from 1500 to 1550

Fig 85 - Save the changes and select the "Save" option from the "File" menu (Ctrl+S)

Fig 86 - Click the Close button


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Fig 87 - Now the title block changes are complete.

Next - see copying the Title Block Text to the Client Folder, to make this Title Block information available in every new job.

The end!

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