David_Haddad

When I drag a theater chair onto a drawing the make model and component ID gets inserted on the chair. I don't want that text on the drawing so I use View>Shape Data and delete the text. However the next thing I know, the text is back, I assume it happens when I am saving or maybe when I reopen the drawing, I have note bothered looking closely to determine when it is happening.

Is there any way to stop this from happening, or do I need to modify the shape? Unlike some shapes the theater chairs do not have a "show text" option when I right click on them, so that's not an option.

Poornima

Hi David,

You need to modify the master shape to prevent display of Component ID and model on the shape. The D-Tools code will automatically populate the Model and ComponentID into the prop.Model and prop.ComponentID cells in the shape if it finds these cells. You can rename these cells in the master shape and D-Tools will not find these cells and nothing will appear on the shape.

Follow these steps to modify the shape: -

1. Open the Visio stencil file containing this shape. (Default folder for D-Tools stencils is “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users \Application Data\D-Tools\SI5\Visualizations\Stencils” for Windows XP and “C:\ProgramData\D-Tools\SI5\Visualizations\Stencils” for Vista).

2. Double click the master shape to open the master shape for editing.

3. Select the master shape on the drawing page and click Window-> Show Shapesheet from the main menu.

4. In the shape sheet, scroll down to the “Shape Data” section. Here you will see a row with the cell name “Prop.ComponentID”. Change this cell name to ComponentID1. In the “Value” column for this row, change the cell value to blank. You will find another row with the cell name Prop.Model in the same section. Change the cell name to Model1. In the “Value” column for this row, change the cell value to blank.( as shown below)

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5. Close the Shape sheet and then close the master shape. Update the master shape. Save the stencil file.

The next time you use this master shape no text should show up. Let me know if this works fine.

-Poornima