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Oct 30, 2013

I'm trying to create a new titleblock for a company I just started with that wants to make the move to AutoCAD.  I have a couple of years drafting exp but I'm still learning the finer points of setting up a virgin system.  So, I've drafted a titleblock which I'm trying to add attributes to, and I think I'm very close to having it all sorted out but I'm stuck at the moment.  See below:

A breakdown of what I've done: Created title block and added attributes for all values we'll be taking from sheet sets (i.e. client name, revision numbers, revision dates}.  This titleblock is saved as its own drawing and the attributes are in that drawing.  The attributes have tags only- no default data or prompts Created a "Dummy" sheet set with all custom properties needed for future sheet sets/projects (i.e. client name, revision numbers, revision dates. Created a New Drawing using the sheet set manager, with our company's current drawing template.Purged all old title blocks from the new drawing Inserted  the new title block (Bullet point 1) with attributes into layout 1.When prompted, I inserted the field for each corresponding attribute.

At first everything looked fine.  Sheet number was correct, sheet title was correct, even a couple of the custom properties were alright and displaying properly in the layout.  BUT THEN I noticed that a few attributes weren't showing up at all in the layout.  When I would edit the title block itself, all of the attributes would be there but when I would try to insert a field into their 'default' parameters, the 'custom sheet set' properties wouldn't exist (like this sheet was not associated with this sheet set).  But some of the attributes in the block WOULD be able to reference the custom sheet set properties, so that's not the issue.

My issues are inconsistent.  Some attributes work, some don't, some update according to sheet set properties in the layout, others change in the block editor.

Is all of this weirdness being caused by the fact that my attributes are within a block?  And does that mean that I have to define attributes in the Drawing template instead?

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