One key point to note about the elemental shapes: Many of them are already linked to information about the document, so you don’t have to re-enter any information! Link to Existing Information by Inserting Fields Here’s a peek at the shapes in the Title Blocks stencil: The stencil contains several pre-made title block shapes, some drawing frames, some borders, and a whole slew of elemental boxes that you can use to assemble to make your own text blocks.īy elemental box, I mean a box that has a field label, and a field value. So there’s an outside chance that you might not have it on your PC.
While this stencil has been around for several versions, I am not 100% sure if it ships with the Standard version of Visio. In Visio 2007 Professional, you can find it by navigating the main menu to:įile > Stencils > Visio Extras > Title Blocks Save Time by Using Existing Title Block Shapesīefore we spend time creating shapes from scratch, I’d like to note that there are a bunch of pre-made master shapes that can help you to construct title blocks. This article is a first in a series on how you can use Visio’s built-in features, ShapeSheet capabilities and even automation code to make smart Title Block shapes that save you work. Other information that is not available by default can be entered in a central location, or extracted from existing data sources, then displayed by cleverly-constructed title block shapes. Through Visio’s SmartShape features, it can automatically be extracted, eliminating the need to re-key it. For these recipients, contact information and drawing scale data can be of utmost importance.Īs it turns out, much of the information that is imperative to title blocks is already in the drawing. Often times, copies of a drawing are e-mailed or sent in printed form to customers, installers, contractors, builders, inspectors. If your company has created more than a small number of drawings, it’s useful to know who created them, when they were created, who updated the drawings, and when they were updated. Title blocks on drawings are important for many, many reasons.
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