{"id":358,"date":"2010-12-01T22:39:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T05:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visiozone.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2010-12-22T19:26:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T02:26:07","slug":"customizing-the-title-block-in-visimation-quotepix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visiozone.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Customizing the Title Block in Visimation QuotePix"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many technical drawings require a title block.\u00a0 There are various ways to construct a title block and to automate its contents.\u00a0 We’ll discuss some useful methods in the context of one of our Visio add-ons.<\/p>\n

Visimation\u2019s QuotePix<\/a><\/strong> Visio add-on generates bill of materials (BOM) reports from your Visio drawings such as the adjacent sample.\u00a0 It has many task-easing features such as a BOM window that dynamically shows quantities of parts and the ability to enter project data that are shown in the drawing\u2019s title block.\u00a0 Here we\u2019ll discuss how to modify the title blocks that we provide in the default templates that come with QuotePix<\/strong>.\u00a0 It will be helpful if you have some basic knowledge of the Visio ShapeSheet but we\u2019ll do our best to explain it adequately for users new to the topic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The templates we provide with QuotePix<\/strong> include a Title Block background page that displays the title block on all of the other pages in the file.\u00a0 We have pre-entered \u201cfields\u201d into the title block shapes so that information entered into QuotePix\u2019s<\/strong> Project Data dialog will appear there.\u00a0 QuotePix<\/strong> enables you to modify the Project Data.\u00a0 However, you need to take some special steps if you want the modified data to appear in your title block.<\/p>\n

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One of Visio\u2019s powerful features is Shape Data\u2026 fields of text information that may be attached to any piece of geometry.\u00a0 Many premade shapes from Visimation\u2019s ShapeSource<\/a> have pre-entered shape data for information such as manufacturer, part number, location, etc.\u00a0 You can create your own or modify what we\u2019ve provided.\u00a0 Each Visio object (shape) has a ShapeSheet which is a spreadsheet-like mechanism for programming intelligent behavior into the shapes.\u00a0 Shape Data are one of the behaviors stored in the ShapeSheet.<\/p>\n

When you enter Project Data, Visio stores them as Shape Data in the Document ShapeSheet which is a special ShapeSheet for the entire document.\u00a0 We\u2019ll explain how to access the Document ShapeSheet in a bit.\u00a0 With QuotePix, these Shape Data are inserted under a different name than the label you may have entered into the QuotePix Project Data dialog.\u00a0 For example, we will add a Project Data field called \u201cDepartment Name\u201d but Visio does not store it under an obvious name such as \u201cProp.Department_Name\u201d.\u00a0 Instead, it adds a row to the Document ShapeSheet with some default name such as \u201cProp.Row_9\u201d.<\/p>\n

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To modify the title block shapes so they display Project Data, you need to look at the Document ShapeSheet\u2019s Shape Data section.\u00a0 In Visio 2007, you can access the Document Properties to identify the actual Prop row name with the following steps:<\/p>\n