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Offline Gibson486Topic starter

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Altium Title Block configuration template
« on: June 14, 2017, 06:39:23 pm »
Is there a way to configure the title block to display whatever your sheet designator name is?
 

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Re: Altium Title Block configuration template
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2017, 07:35:05 pm »
By "Sheet Designator" do you mean the SheetSymbolDesignator name in a hierarchical design?
 

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Re: Altium Title Block configuration template
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2017, 07:36:14 pm »
Yes....
 

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Re: Altium Title Block configuration template
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2017, 07:50:12 pm »
Nope
 

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Re: Altium Title Block configuration template
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2017, 08:12:12 pm »
With an ugly hack maybe, using a project global parameter:

Right click on project > Project options > Parameters > Create a new parameter for you desired sheet name e.g. MyDesigSheet_01 with value of whatever
Edit your sheet symbol designator to be =MyDesigSheet_01
Then in your title block use =MyDesigSheet_01

Repeat for all sheet symbols MyDesigSheet_01, MyDesigSheet_02..
 

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Re: Altium Title Block configuration template
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2017, 08:28:59 pm »
With an ugly hack maybe, using a project global parameter:

Right click on project > Project options > Parameters > Create a new parameter for you desired sheet name e.g. MyDesigSheet_01 with value of whatever
Edit your sheet symbol designator to be =MyDesigSheet_01
Then in your title block use =MyDesigSheet_01

Repeat for all sheet symbols MyDesigSheet_01, MyDesigSheet_02..

Hahahaha....that is an ugly hack. May as well just enter it manually sheet by sheet.

Oh well.

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Re: Altium Title Block configuration template
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2017, 09:02:03 pm »
Wait one sec....

If I make a template...how come stuff does not auto populate? It just shows up as an asterisks. WTF....
 

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Re: Altium Title Block configuration template
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2017, 01:00:01 am »
Wait one sec....

If I make a template...how come stuff does not auto populate? It just shows up as an asterisks. WTF....

...case sensitivity? slight spelling differences?

I use templates with autotext that work all the time. (though not with global parameters...) and I think for the solution below to work using global parameters with templates you will need a template for each separate sheet number to hardcode a different global parameter name reference into each template)

Try putting a new autotext into a schematic sheet that picks up the global or sheet parameter, then see if you can make the template file do exactly the same thing.

 

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Re: Altium Title Block configuration template
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2017, 03:26:56 pm »
Wait one sec....

If I make a template...how come stuff does not auto populate? It just shows up as an asterisks. WTF....
in the preference set 'convert special strings' to 'true'
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Re: Altium Title Block configuration template
« Reply #9 on: June 16, 2017, 12:09:21 am »
in the preference set 'convert special strings' to 'true'

that must already be set to get the asterisk, otherwise he would be seeing the parameter name reference.

to get the asterisk you are referring to an empty or non existent parameter.
 

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Re: Altium Title Block configuration template
« Reply #10 on: June 21, 2017, 02:33:44 pm »
Here is what I am finding from using this....

In the template itself, you can only input predefined strings that will not change (like your company's address), not auto text. So, if I put "=Title" in the actual template, it does not really become part of the template or it is just not recognize the auto string because the template does not share the same parent as your project. Instead, you have to manually put the auto string on each sheet's parameter.

Does that should right?

Edit: OK....so I just restarted Altium and everything populated correctly.....weird. The original question does not seem possible, but at least the rest of it is working.

Thanks!
« Last Edit: June 21, 2017, 02:54:32 pm by Gibson486 »
 


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