Auto Insert Blocks

Designer enables the auto-insertion of user-defined blocks into any AVEVA Instrumentation generated drawing by adding block names to the Drawings List for any or all drawings. The inserted blocks can contain Datalinks that will be updated by AVEVA Instrumentation with project data. AVEVA Instrumentation supports up to 40 blocks per drawing. Blocks are always inserted at drawing coordinates 0,0.

This feature was added to AVEVA Instrumentation to enable users to reduce the number of Seed and Template drawings as often the only difference between drawings is a different set of drawing notes etc.

To add an auto-inserting block

1. To enable Designer to locate the user-defined blocks, each block must reside in the current projects 'CAD Block/Circuit' folder as defined in the Project Setup window (Project tab > Edit Project option).

2. To assign blocks to a specific AVEVA Instrumentation Drawing add the block name to one of the Drawings List's block fields (Block1, Block2, etc.). The easiest way to do this is to add the Block fields to a GridView using the AVEVA Instrumentation Grid Manager, accessed from the Manage option on the Home tab. For further information, refer to the Common Functionality of AVEVA Instrumentation.

3. Once the Block fields are in the Drawings List data grid, select the required value from the pull down list that appears in each 'Block' cell of the grid when the mouse is hovered over that cell.

   When generating the drawing AVEVA Instrumentation inserts any defined Blocks just prior to updating Datalink data so Datalinks can be embedded in the Auto Inserting Blocks successfully.

   Note: AVEVA Instrumentation only inserts these Blocks if the drawing is being created (the drawing file does not currently exist). To add Blocks to an existing drawing, delete the drawing file prior to update for the blocks to be auto-inserted.