Layout Standards ?

[kiwideziner]

The other thing that can determine the printed output is the type of printer (or probably print resolution). If I print on a bublejet the lines are thicker than if i print on My Xerox photocopier.

[perryh]

P - have you been able (or anyone else for that matter) been able to get a macro to report the text (A1, A2) to the shet index? That would be really, really neat. In the past weeks I A) Added a sheet but forgot to update the index, got kicked back in plan check and B) Added a sheet in the index but forgot to past the PDF into the layou page so nothing printed - again, got kicked back in plan check. Both user error, both easily avoided with tight integration between sheets, sheet numbering and the sheet index.
Be great to see the same things for callouts and details, I' know there have been threas on this topic in the past.

No, the A1.0, A1.1, A1.2 / S1.0, S1.1 etc. is just standard text on the layout, this way it's very easy to add and delete pages but the index must be changes. Hope they fix all that. Using this method, when you add a page it becomes A1.3 and A1.4 also easy to change the index without re-numbering, you are just adding and deleting pages.

[Joe Carrick]

A Sheet Schedule/Index (requires some new Ruby Attributes with Sheet Label & Sheet Name) would solve this problem.

Sheet Label - G-1,G-2,G-3..., A-1,A-2,A-3,A-4...., S-1,S-2,S-3,... etc.
Sheet Name - COVER SHEET, GENERAL NOTES, ...................

Sheet Schedule - reads the current list of Sheets (Sheet Label & Sheet Name) to fill in the Schedule/Index.

I hope CA is Lurking on this one

[mkennedy]

Yeah, decimal sheet naming has been pretty standard for decades.
I just hark back to the bad old days when everything had attributes, that could be defined at the point\time of insertion, then extracted to a spreadsheet or a database, that could be linked, live to the drawing, either in plan or in layout.
And I could have graphics that displayed on screen but didn't print.
Anyway, I'm trying assiduously to avoid the 2d CAD debate, so I'm happy to just stick to schedules, macros, text editing, labels\callouts, tables and the like.