Adding Scale and other Fields to Title Block

Been updating the old title block to be a bit more automatic to save sometime I insert fields into the block attributes to give me the data I wanted as follows

Insert Copyright Year

Insert Drawing Name 

Inserting blanks as per link

Inserted Drawing Scale as per this video

Updated the scale bar values to update based on the scale as well

 

I did look at using a diesel expression first for the scale calculation but this did not work as the object ID is turned to a number straight away and the link to the viewport is broken here are some links on diesel for future reference anyway

http://civil3d.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/quick-to-the-diesel/

http://docs.autodesk.com/ACD/2010/ENU/AutoCAD%202010%20User%20Documentation/index.html?url=WS73099cc142f4875513fb5cd10c4aa30d6b-7b3c.htm,topicNumber=d0e393837

http://www.cadforum.cz/cadforum_en/qaID.asp?tip=3676

Sharing Data with other CAD programs

Working in an Autodesk environment with Autocad based programs day in and day out you tend to hit a road block when it comes to dynamically working with others who utilise other cad programs these programs can usually only import some type of basic .dwg.

Case in point I am currently working with a landscape designer who is using Micro Station having no idea how Microstation work I have extract the basic finished surface data as cleanly as possible to include only the  featurline lines as 2d and 3d polylines the surface triangles, contours and labels as polylines and blocks.

To do this I

1. QSelected the featurelines and wblocked them out to a new drawing.
2. In the new drawing exploded the featurelines to just 2d and 3d polylines (as using the file export method explodes the featurelines into line segments)
3. Then I wblocked out just the exploded lines as this gives a nice clean drawing without all the other surface information.
4. Into this new drawing I copied and pasted the extracted surface information from the design drawing.

Hopefully this gives them a nice clean drawing with only the design information from us that they need.