The Issue Manager

The Issue Manager accesses and displays information about drawing issue, dates, and history on a sheet-by-sheet basis. It interacts with the drawing border object by allowing the user to control the drawing border title block data and issue information. (Drawing borders can either be placed with the Drawing Border tool in the Dims/Notes tool set—see Creating Drawing Borders—or a drawing border can be created and placed by the Document Setup or Create Standard Viewports commands—see The Setup Commands.)

To use the Issue Manager:

1.	Ensure that at least one drawing border with a title block is present in the drawing.

2.	Select File > Issue Manager.

The Issue Manager dialog box opens.

The tabs and fields displayed depend on the title block inserted in the drawing border. Custom title blocks may not match the parameters or tabs shown here. The fields and tabs shown assume that an Arch-style title block is inserted.

3.	Click the Project Data tab to configure the project information.

Leave a blank field to create an empty line in the title block.

 

Parameter	Description
Project ID	Specifies the company project ID code
Project Title	Indicates the project title, which can include name and address information
Design Firm	Describes the name and address of the design firm
Project Manager	Provides the project manager’s name
Designed By	Specifies the name of the lead designer
Total Sheets	Indicates the total number of sheet layers (or design layers named “sheet-”) in the project
File Name	Indicates the VectorWorks file name

The information on the Project tab applies to all drawing borders or title blocks in the set.

4.	Enter the project information. If the project was created with the Create Standard Viewports command, some of the information has been automatically entered.

5.	Click the Sheet Data tab to configure information about individual sheet layers in the set.

 

Parameter	Description
Sheet Number	The information displayed applies to this sheet number
Sheet Title	The sheet title can contain up to three lines
Sheet Scale	Displays the scale of the major drawing on this sheet
Consultant	Specifies the name and address of any consultants involved with this particular sheet
Drawn By	Provides the draftsperson’s initials
Rev/Checked By	Specifies the reviewer’s initials
Submitted By	Specifies the submitter’s initials
Record Date	Specifies the date of the issue
Include in Current Issue	Select to include this sheet in the current issue set
Prev / Next	Click Prev and Next to switch to each sheet and enter the relevant data

6.	Complete the information for each sheet in the drawing set to be issued. Toggle among other sheets in the drawing with the Next > and < Prev buttons.

If the project was set up with the Create Standard Viewports command, some of the information has been automatically entered. For each sheet, specify sheet-specific information and indicate whether to include the sheet in the issue.

7.	Click the Issue Data tab to specify information about the current issue.

 

Parameter	Description
Record the issue of this Drawing Set	Updates the title block issue data area
Issue Number	Specifies the number or letter of the current issue
Issue Date	Indicates the date of the current issue
Issue Note	Adds any comments or description of the issue
Record on checked sheets only	Updates only the issue data of sheets that were selected on the Sheet Data tab
Record on all sheets	Updates the issue data for all sheets in the file

8.

Click OK.

The drawing border title blocks are updated for the selected sheets. If specified, the issue information is included in the title block.

Regardless of whether the title block contains fields for the issue data, the data is still written to a record attached to the drawing border, becoming a permanent part of the drawing border. If the title block changes later, the data can be displayed.