Text on locked layers

cursor · 30 May 2008, 11:21

Portions of title blocks should be protectable from user manipulation. It's logical that locked layers should provide for that. Any text that resides on a locked layer, however, can be 2x-clicked and edited. Why is that?

bjanzen · 30 May 2008, 16:02

Well, it's a feature, not a bug . You can have someone in your firm develop templates, but when you hand those templates off to someone, they may need to modify some things, such as pages, dates, etc... but you don't want them to edit the fields and move them, messing up the nice look of the template. Voila - you can edit the text, but not change the geometry/location. Convinced?

Barry

cursor · 30 May 2008, 17:33

There are items that never change, once a drawing template is finalized — the company name, location, phone number, website ID, etc. Text field tags like "revisions", "sheet", "print date", "issue date" should not be editable (as long as they are on a locked layer). Would it not make sense to offer the option of locking 1) position, and/or 2)content?

bjanzen · 4 Jun 2008, 21:53

OK, so I didn't totally convince you. Yes, that's not an unreasonable request that "locking means locking". Noted.

Barry

DavidBoulder · 8 Jun 2008, 03:58

Maybe have a layer lock act in one way (as it does now), but then also allow individual objects to be locked (where double click doesn't allow text edit)