Associating Border Attachments to Sheet Seed Models

A border attachment is an ordinary reference which is used to represent the drawing border within a sheet model.

When you associate a border attachment to a sheet seed model, any changes to the model's properties — for example, annotation scale, location, rotation, size — for the sheet are automatically propagated to the border attachment. If, for example, you have an A4 size border graphics associated to a sheet seed model and you change the annotation scale to 1:50, then the associated border attachment is scaled by the same amount.

Once associated, any changes to the border attachment are automatically propagated to the sheet boundary. For example, if you move the border attachment, the sheet boundary will automatically move to the new location.

Administrators are advised to attach and associate border attachments to a sheet seed model. Then when the seed model is used to create new sheets, the new sheets will inherit the border attachment and association.

Note: The folder that contains the sheet border attachment should be added to the MS_RFDIR configuration variable.

Note: You can reference the border attachment from a sheet model only and not from a design or drawing model.

Note: Once you have associated the border attachment to the sheet seed model, any changes to the properties will be reflected in the attachment. If, for example, you change the annotation scale for the drawing, the border graphics (in the associated border attachment) also will be adjusted. Any new sheet created from the seed file will have the border with the boundary already associated.

To Associate a Border Attachment to a Sheet Seed Model

To Associate a Border Attachment to a Sheet Seed Model Using the Properties Dialog

Sheet Composition Toolbox

Parent topic: Creating Sheet Models for Drawing Production