Firstly, what do I mean by a document template? This is not just. I'll cover folder structures in Part 2.Ī common request from Vault users is to be able to manage document templates more effectively. Now the File Name textbox should update as soon as you have entered values into project name and title fields. What this does is bind the text of the File Name textbox to use the underlying file name VDS property, rather than referring to the drawing property that was being defaulted to the initial file name (Drawing2.dwg in this case). In the AutoCAD.xaml file, find the FILENAME textbox and changes its binding by replacing the text Prop.Value with PathAndFileNameHandler.FileName

Let’s fix that up before declaring victory.

You may have noticed that the File Name field still says Drawing2.dwg even though our actual file name has changed. Now filling the form out and saving should result in the file name following our intended convention.

The property GEN-TITLE-DES1 is by default bound to the Title field on the form (you can change the name of this field to anything you want so long as it’s changed in the AutoCAD.cfg file as well as in the Binding for the title textbox in the AutoCAD.xaml file – you probably want it to match the name of the Title tag on your title block… but we’ll cover that another time) The folder structure should be standardised to the following format: GeelongBypassExtension-SchematicDesign.dwg Regions are defined by country and state as follows:Įach project is allocated a project name based on a short description.Įach document contains a title that describes the files contents.Į.g. Let’s assume that work is project based and there different design offices in different regions that work on projects specific to their region. Our Business Rules for File Naming and Folder Structure Standardsīefore we get started configuring, here are the standards that we want to implement. Whilst I will use AutoCAD for this post, the same can be achieved with Inventor. The basics of this are covered in the help documentation, in this post we will cover a practical example of achieving this. With some simple configuration VDS can apply complex directory structure and naming standards that are specific to your business needs. As its name suggests, at the core of Vault Data Standard is standardisation including file names and directory structures.

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