Insert Header

Command: Insert Header
Menu path: Layouts > Insert Header
Icon: zaglavlje_skice16.png  zaglavlje_skice32.png
Functional description: The command inserts new header into the selected layout or replaces existing header (or data table).
 


Insert Header command inserts a header into the selected layout.
If there’s already a header or data table in the layout, they will be replaced by the new header.
To add the header, the layout needs to have a page frame.

You can add:

  • header with the scale (tip: edit the header appearance with Header with the Scale command)
  • header with the date  (tip: edit the header appearance with Header with the Date command)
  • header without the scale and date  (tip: edit the header appearance with Layout Header command)


Procedure

Before running the command you need to open the layout in which you wish to add (or change) the header.

Then, from the main menu run Layouts > Layout Header command.

If the header is added to the layout which has no  header nor data table, Create Header  window opens (Figure 1). If the header is added to the layout which already has a header (or data table) then Change Header Data window opens.

Both windows contain same entry fields (therefore the procedure is the same), the difference being that Create Header window is initially filled with data as described in „Forward layout entry data” section on this page, and Edit Header Data window is initially filled with data from the header (or data table) already in the layout.

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Figure 1

The window contains the following items:

Name:

  • Object Name -  (User accepts the offered input or enters the construction object name)
  • Drawing Name - (User enters the drawing name)

Scale

If Display Layout Scale checkbox is checked, the scale will be displayed in the header.
The user selects the scale from the Scale drop-down list.
If you plan to create a viewport of the layout later on, than you MUST define the scale.

Date

If Display Creation Date checkbox is checked, the date will be displayed in the layout header.
The user enters the date in the Date field.

Sheet Number

The user enters the sheet’s number that will appear in the layout header.

*   *   *

Depending on whether there’s already a header (or data table) in the layout,
Create button or Modify button will be displayed in the bottom of the window.

Click on Create (Modify) to create a new header (Figure 2),
in accordance with the data entered in Create Header  window (or Edit Header Data window).

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Figure 2


Forwarding header data

The header data can be entered at different levels:

  1. At the project level
  2. Immediately prior to the creation of the header
  3. Directly into the header itself

Unlike the data table, no header data are defined at the level of system settings,
so in this case the highest level at which data can be entered is the project level.

Regardless of the data entering level, they are forwarded to the next level
and at that point the user decides whether to accept the forwarded data or manually change them.
If you change the data, then the changed data will be forwarded to the next level
until the header itself is eventually completed.

(The data used in the example are arbitrary and the only goal is to show how they are forwarded from one level to another.)


1. Project level

When creating a new project Create New Project window on Project tab contains fields that should be completed on the spot.

Only one entry field is forwarded all the way to the header itself:

  • Official name: "Official Name Test"
    (forwarded to the field "Object Name" in Create Header window)

 

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Figure 3


2. Immediately prior to the creation of the header

When, after running Layouts > Insert Header command, Create Header window opens, you need to enter data in that window that will eventually be displayed in the header itself.
Some of the data are forwarded from the level above (red), and other are entered on the spot.

  • Object Name: "Official Name Test"
  • Drawing Name: Drawing Name Test
  • Drawing Scale: 1: 1000
    (to be filled in if we need
    header with the scale)
  • Date:"07-12" (current month is offered)
    (to be be filled in if we need
    header with the scale)
  • Sheet Number: "1"

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Figure 4

 

The header will be filled with data entered in the Create Header window (level 2).

If the user wishes to modify these data, this can be done in two ways:

  • Directly in the header itself (level 3)
  • By re-running Layouts > Insert Header command (as previously described)

 

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Figure 5


3. Directly in the header itself

Data can be modified directly in the header by marking the header in the layout and then opening Properties window.
In the Properties window, change the value of attributes for the corresponding header fields (Figures 5 and 6).

 

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Figure 6