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Function Reference: draw.titleblock

drafting: D = draw.titleblock (SIZE, FIELDS)

drafting: D = draw.titleblock (SIZE)

drafting: SIZES = draw.titleblock ()

A sheet frame with a title block in its corner.

D = draw.titleblock (SIZE, FIELDS) returns a drawing holding the border of a sheet of the named size and the title block in its bottom right corner, filled in from FIELDS. Merge it with the drawing it frames.

SIZES = draw.titleblock () lists the sheet sizes.

Sheet sizes

The ISO A series from A4 to A0, by name, in landscape. Every one is in millimetres, and the border is inset 10 mm from the trimmed edge except at the left, where it is inset 20 mm to leave a filing margin, which is what ISO 5457 asks for and what a drawing loses if it is punched without.

Fields

FIELDS is a struct whose fields fill the block. Any of title, drawing, material, scale, units, date, drawnby and revision is used; anything else is ignored, and anything absent is left blank rather than invented.

The values are text and are written as given. A scale of '1:2' is a claim about the drawing it frames, and nothing here checks it: the frame does not know what it was merged with.

Layers

The sheet is drawn on three layers of its own, defined with the line weights of ISO 5457 and ISO 128, so it prints correctly as it is:

'FRAME'
The border and the outline of the title block, 0.7 mm, the weight ISO 5457 asks of a border.
'TITLE'
The rules and the text inside the title block, 0.25 mm.
'SHEET'
The trimmed edge of the paper, shown on screen and not printed, since on paper it is the edge itself.

Merged first, as a sheet is built, the frame keeps these definitions: a layer several drawings have keeps the properties of the first. Change them afterwards with draw.Drawing.layer, or drop the three layers before sending the geometry to a machine that has no use for them.

See also: draw.Drawing, draw.coordtable, draw.Drawing.merge

Source Code: draw.titleblock

A sheet frame with its title block, ready to merge with the drawing it frames. The border is drawn at 0.7 mm, the title block's rules at 0.25 mm, and the trimmed edge only on screen.

 draw.titleblock ()
ans =
{
  [1,1] = A4
  [1,2] = A3
  [1,3] = A2
  [1,4] = A1
  [1,5] = A0
}
 F = struct ('title', 'BEARING BRACKET', 'drawing', 'BRK-014', ...
             'material', 'EN8', 'scale', '1:1', 'units', 'mm', ...
             'date', '2026-08-17', 'drawnby', 'AB', 'revision', 'B');
 sheet = draw.titleblock ('A4', F);
 part = draw.Drawing ().circle ([0, 0], 30).circle ([0, 0], 12);
 part.Linetype = 'CENTER';
 part.Colour = 'red';
 part = part.centremark ();
 sheet = sheet.merge (part.transform ('translate', [120, 120]));
 plot (sheet, 'FontSize', 6);
 title ('an A4 sheet with its frame, block and part');
plotted figure