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Is Possible to add parametric node with "sheet name" in title block?
karel_works
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Hello,
I cannot find any way to add parametric note with sheet name to the title block in my custom template. There are just Drawing names. I assume that there is no other way to do that. Maybe write my own feature script or propose that as a feature, or am I missing something?
Thank You very much.
Karel
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This will depend on what you are using to drive the sheet name. What do you intend to drive it with? Part name? Or from somewhere else?
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I didn't know that I can drive the sheet name, I name it myself (rename).
Sometimes, I put more parts in one drawing and than I can't use part name, becausem, there are more parts.
Thank You for your response
As a paid user, you can use custom properties then replace the "Sheet" in your template with whichever custom property you like. I'm still not sure what you intend to drive your sheet name with. Once you know what you want to drive it with, then I can try to point you in the right direction.
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I would like to have "mříže na okno" and "Branka" (in this case) to be automatically placed to the title block in the Drawing name box.
And with this, I have question, if I can add name of whole "document" in the ttle block, same was as sheets
Where will those names come from? The parametric aspect of drawings is usually the parts that you put on them. The drawing itself uses properties that can be automated, but usually the user just right clicks the drawing tab and sets the properties which will be drawing wide not per sheet. If they are going to be per sheet, then what is driving them? Might as well manually type them if nothing is driving them.
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When I make a new sheet in the drawing, it's atomatically called Sheet1. And I like to rename it, to know what is inside, when I have more Sheets than just one (which I usually have). And also quite often there is more parts on one sheet than just one, So I don't want to drive the name (if it's possible) of the sheet by name of parts. I just want to rename it.
And with it, I would like, to automatically change my name of current sheet in title box. use Sheet1 as driver for title box.
There is parametric node "Drawing name" but not "sheet name". I don't know, maybe I do pointless work, but it still make sense to me. But, is there any way, I can do that? If not, I’ll find another way, or just manually copy/paste.
And thanks for your patience:)
There are ways to automate and parametrically drive anything in Onshape. That said, it sounds like the best thing will be to manually rename your new sheet to whatever you like. You only have to rename one input field right? I'm sure it would be possible via the api to figure out which parts are on a sheet then dynamically name the sheet based on all the part names. But I think for your use case, a simple double click the title and rename it will be best.
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I think I am finding the same frustration. Basically, of all the parametric nodes (is that the right term?), i.e. where you click 'insert drawing properties' in a note dialogue box, and can select one of many properties, the "sheet name" is not there? which is odd, because I would have thought its an important one?
This way, it would be possible to use the sheets (ctrl+s) side bar to organise the titles, or sub titles in my case, displayed in the title block.
I thought I put a request in for this years ago, but I can't find it now.
oh, I found it ! from 2019 !!! and it wasn't me, I just commented.
That's exactly what I meant. It is frustrating to copy and paste names. Should we propose that as a new feature, or how should we proceed to fix this? Thanks for your investigation.
Its already been proposed as an Improvement Request, see the link above in my last post. If you have not already, you can click this and vote for it at the top of the string.
Not entirely sure how this all gets conveyed pack to Onshape. People ask for stuff daily, some is easy, some is not. I think they watch the forum to some extent, and try to work out what the masses want, and how easy this is to implement. But a lot of requests they have already thought of I expect, and already implemented if they think its good idea.
That said, drawings seem to work as a different group, I think its the whole drawing area is not actually built in-house at Onshape, but by https://www.graebert.com/cad-software/ares-kudo/#price ? I think…. but I could be wrong.
And over the years I've been using Onshape, the drawing package has steadily improved. There is almost always something new in each 3 week update.
Try to keep bumping it up in the forum every now and again, so others see it and vote for it. Thats about all we can do.
Slightly related rant! : I've been engaging with sheets and drawings and part names and numbers and BOM's recently and it is a bit of a mess. There are dialog boxes everywhere! Right click the part name in the part studio to select properties, but not to be able to set the material, which is greyed out, as that needs its own right click…then each part tab can have it's own properties and each drawing tab and sheet names and... Knowing that a drawing has more than one sheet requires the sheets bar to be open…
Anyway, I've voted for the improvement! :)