Creating Format Symbols for Title Blocks

Hi,

There are samples locatd in the default libaries. The Help defining and developing libraries points you to the location. Also there are pictures at the bottom.

You can bring them in by importing a dxf of an exisitng one.

Regards,

BillZ

EMA Design Automation

Another addition to the comment BillZ made - Learn to add/utilize "Attributes" within the title pages. This is a TERRIFIC function. If you have the title block set up with Attributes, you simply select the block, edit Attributes and a GUI pops up that you can fill all the details in, instead of 1 piece of text at a time.

Very useful!

Hello,

I am trying make a logo image in a format symbol.

I am doing FILE -> IMPORT -> LOGO.

How can I resize de logo? Because I'm tried resize the image source but when I import again, the logo have the same size.

You can help me?!

Thank you.

Pedro

Hi, I was not aware that Allegro had support for attributes in title block pages. Does it really ?, would be very handy if it did. Can you possibly point me in the right direction as to how to define them

Thanks Scott. 

Dennis the pcb editor does have example title blocks for A thru D they are located under your install directory 
\share\pcb\pcb_lib\symbols they are .dra symbols.

There are a few things to consider so perhaps these might help.

Open up one of the symbols like csize.dra in the pcb editor. By default it is possible that you wont see any graphics for the actual sheet so go to Display/Visibility on the tool bar to open the color settings. Next click on "Drawing Format" and make the subclasses visible with a color or colors of your choice.

Each of the drawing entities that make up the actual sheet are on their own subclass. You can edit each subclass to add and remove lines or text depending on what you need. By way of a few pointers. Choose a text size from the list of text sizes that would not be typically used for items like reference dez on parts that way you wont have to worry about how the text size looks going forward.

You could add a the following too.

Photoplot outline that is drawn around the outside edge of your sheet "Manufacturing/Photoplot outline"
A board outline "Board Geometry Outline"
A route Keep in, inside the board outline. "Areas , Route Keepin, Through All"
Manufacturing notes for the board house.

You might also consider setting the various colors you would use for etch, vias and symbols.

When your done save out your symbol, Also save out your symbol as a .brd file. When you do this you can use that board as a starting board for each of your new designs. When you package up a new design from capture schematic just choose your template board as the input board and give the name of the actual output board something else.

The sky is kind of the limit on what you would like to include in your template. I think of a template as just a board file and not a symbol

Hope that helps.

Thanks Scott