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This tip comes to us courtesy of Alan Ho (different spelling of Allan and all round nicer person than your's truly), this was in answer to a specific customer enquiry but thought it might be a good one to share. Be warned – there is some xml text changes required so if this is your first time maybe remember to save a copy of the original.
Within AutoCAD, the revision table styles (by default) are stored in the form of DWGs which are namely:
- 'vaac_RevBlockImperial.dwg’ – For English units based drawings
- 'vaac_RevBlockMetric.dwg' - For Metric units based drawings
These two template DWGs are installed with the Vault add-in and reside in the users' application data directory: "C:Users<username>AppDataRoamingAutodeskAutoCAD <version> Vault AddIn" if you are on Windows 7 and above.
Within these two templates each user can change / tweak the revision table style to their preference or actually reset the style by removing these files (they are reloaded with add-in use).
If however you would like to have the Vault revision table point to the style files in another, possibly shared location, this can also be done using the following steps:
- Open up the file 'acad.exe.config' from the AutoCAD installation directory (C:Program FilesAutodeskAutoCAD <Version>). You can use any XML editor or notepad to do this.
- With the file opened. Insert two XML tags for both the English and Metric units based templates under the <appSettings> tag. (Refer to highlighted example text below; just swap out the values for the location of your revision table style files)
- Save the file and re-launch AutoCAD (and the Vault add-in).
- The next time a Vault Revision Table is inserted, it will pull the new style from these templates in the location specified.
-Allan
