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Al Whitley/3 min read

Developing a Title Block for VDCI with Base Point 00 and New Layer A-TTLB

Title Block Build

1

Create Layer A-TTLB

New layer for title block geometry.

2

Set Base Point 0,0

BASE command — sets insertion point.

3

Add Border and Boxes

Sheet border, project info box, sheet number, revision block.

4

Save as Block (WBLOCK)

Reusable across all sheets in the project.

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This tutorial walks through developing a title block for vdci with base point 00 and new layer a-ttlb, covering essential tools and techniques for your projects.

So let's begin. Let's start working on our title block file. So I'm going to go File, New, and I will use the template.

And I will save the file in my CAD301 folder with the name VDCITTLB2234. So VDCI being the Virtual Design and Construction Institute. Typically in an office you would either have the office's names or a project name there.

TTLB showing that this is the title block. And 2234, which is the size of the image. And I'm going to overwrite the file.

Now the first thing I'm going to do is to create a new layer. I will go to Layers. I will do a right button, New Layer.

The layer name, A-TTLB. This is the title block layer. I will double click over here to make it the current layer.

And I will give it a color of 120. So again a new layer, A-TTLB. The color is 120.

It is my current layer. I will close the interface. All drawings have a base point.

The base point is typically 0,0. So I'm going to have 0,0 as my bottom left corner of the title block. So I'm going to go into the Rectangle command.

Read the prompt. The first corner would be 0,0. The other corner at 34,22. Zoom Extents.

Zoom Real Time. And I will save the file. So again, when you have a drawing that includes paper space and model space in it, the only information that ever comes across when you reference one drawing into another is the information that's in the model space.

If I'm going to be using the information in model space or if I'm going to be using the information in paper space, I need to create the source information in model space even though I'm going to use it in paper space. So again, we are in our VDCI title block TTLB file 2234. What I want to do though is to test drive this.

I want to make sure as I'm developing this title block that it will successfully work in the deliverable sheet file. So I'm going to create a temporary drawing that I'm going to be calling Working 01. So I'm going to say File New.

Use the template. And I will save the file with the name Working-01. Now this drawing is not in your dataset.

And so when you create the Working-01, you will not see it show up on the list. So again, I look at the top and I can see that I'm in a new drawing called Working-01. Now, our template file has a model tab and it has two tabs.

One is for an 8.5x11 environment. The other is for an 11x17 environment. This deliverable sheet file will be a 22x34.

And so I need to create a new layout environment. So I'm going to go onto the tab right down here. And I'm going to pick with the right button and I'm going to choose Page Setup Manager.

Stop.