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AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager properties shows '----' when you don't want to
Some users of SSM in AutoCAD 2005 don't want "----" (four hyphens/dashes) to show up on the plotted drawing when a property is empty.
Using a space character as a workaround to not getting "----" doesn't work. It doesn't stay if the drawing is saved, closed and then opened.
Here is a tip for empty fields or blank fields.
What on the other hand stays is entering ALT-0160 (Non-break Space) on the keyboard followed by an enter. To do it hold down the ALT key and type the numbers 0 1 6 0 on the numeric keypad. Now the four dashes will not show up their ugly face.
Update: In AutoCAD 2009 if a space is added nothing will show at all, not even the gray area so that you could see that it is a field there. Nothing. That makes it tricky if the field is in a mtext object and nothing else as you will not see it and might delete it unintentionally.
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Anonymous said...
I have found that if the text style for the field of the property is an AutoCAD-based SHX font (RoamnS for example)that entering ALT-0160 will display a "?". But it works just fine with True Type font based text styles.
January 12, 2005
Anonymous said...
One way around the "----" is to do the following:
Open a new drawing, and select drawing properties from the File menu. This opens the drawing properties dialog box. Choose the Custom tab, then add a new custom property with whatever the attribute tag/name should be.In the value field type space characters through space bar. This will add empty spaces in the value field.
In the Field command, select the custom property you created.
Inserting it will result in an empty field.
The custom property stores in the particular drawing. Save the drawing as template file for use in future new files. Open new drawings with the saved template file that contains the custom property for all new drawings.
February 15, 2005
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