Adding a Drawing Border

The Drawing Border tool places a pre-formatted drawing border along the edges of the drawing area, set to the drawing size. Standard size pages have a matching standard drawing border. A custom size border can easily be specified, and drawing borders and title blocks can be customized to meet office requirements.

The Update Plug-in Objects command may need to be run on files containing drawing borders that were created in an earlier version of VectorWorks. This command converts the drawing borders to the latest format; see Migrating from Previous Versions. Additional drawing border capabilities are available in the VectorWorks Design Series. See Creating Drawing Borders.

 

To place a drawing border:

1.	Make the design or sheet layer active. Drawing borders are inserted in Top/Plan view on design layers.

2.	Click the Drawing Border tool from the Dims/Notes tool set.

3.	Click Preferences from the Tool bar to set the default drawing border parameters.

The Drawing Border Preferences dialog box opens.

 

Parameter	Description
Drawing Size	Select a standard size and format for the drawing border, or select Fit to Page to set the drawing border to the page dimensions (see Page Setup). Select Custom to use custom drawing border dimensions, and specify the Width and Height dimensions.
Title Block	Opens the Import Title Block dialog box, for selecting a title block symbol to insert (see Adding a Title Block), or select None for no title block
Lock to Page Center	Locks the drawing border center position to the page center; deselect to position the drawing border manually. If the plan has been rotated (Design Series required), select Lock to Page Center to position the drawing border correctly when in a non-rotated view.
Use As Title Block Only	When a title block has been selected, displays only the title block and hides all other drawing border elements

4.	Click once in the drawing to set the drawing border insertion point, and then click again to set the drawing border orientation.

5.	The drawing border is placed on the drawing.

The drawing border can be re-sized and re-scaled after placement, attributes can be changed, and title blocks and revision histories can be added.