Quite easy to understand the logic and workflow of this application if you are familiar with how to update the title block values manually.

1. Type "TBEXCHANGE" command in the command line of Autodesk® AutoCAD® or Go to "Add-ins" tab and above the "JWH Coding Solutions" Panel, Click the "Tbexchange" button, then the application window will show up.

2. Go to the "Help" Menu->"About Title Block Exchange" submenu to read the terms and conditions before you use. 

3. Go to the top ribbon and click butons to create, load, save, save as a project. You can access same functions in the "File" Menu ->Drop down menus.

4.  On the same row of ribbon, fill relevant text boxes to setup or modify the project settings like: project name, project ID, version attribute tag.

5. Check or uncheck the "Log File" checkbox to set up or cancel the log file. Check or uncheck the "Processing in background ..." checkbox to setup the processing mode. Check or uncheck the  "Rename drawing sheet layout Name to Version Tag Value"...

6. Go to the "Template" tab to produce the Register template. You select one template AutoCAD drawing with the right title block in paper space, then select the title block name in the combobox and then press "Create" button to produce the Template Excel file. Save your template to a place and then change the template register with the style of your need ( Be mindful that you can change the order of the template Columns, width, height, etc, But the first row values shall not be changed which is the header value of template and is the key link between the title block and the Register files).

You should keep the first header "Document Name" unchanged as well.

7. Use the "Export" tab to Export the drawings attribute values base on the format of template excel files. You can edit and update the attribute values on Excel quite easily based on exported values. Please be mindful to keep the first columns value and order unchanged and other values in the first header row unchanged (you can change header order of any other columns along with their values except the first column-"Document name" column).

8. Use the "Import" tab to import back the updated registration information to update the sheet drawings title block attributes, like the issuing date, designer names, drawing titles, approval signature, revison descriptions etc.

9. Once you setup your project well, you can save all these settings into an xml file and later on load back to this application again. You can easily share this xml file with your team in an email attachment as well.

10. Please practice a few times in a trial project folder before you apply this tool to the real project files. And always remember to backup your files in a safe place before you use this application.

11. Please be advised that the commercial standard version has a 100 drawings limit for each operation (app can be run any number of times without closing). If you want to have more drawing limits for each operation, Please contact the app developer via email:jwhcoding@gmail.com.

12. Please check the example drawings, register template and register Excel files under the "Example Drawings" folder (default path: C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\JWH Coding Solutions Title Block Exchange Application.bundle\Contents\Example Drawings).

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JWH Coding Solutions:

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Application purchase and Activation Instruction.

(1) Purchase online in Autodesk App Store, and then download the installation file and install it to the computer you want to activate as commercial standard version.

(2) After installation, Open the application as instructed in "Add-ins" tab, A "Register Form" window will show up (This form will disappear next time if you activate this application with valid license code).

(3) In the "Register Form" window, copy the Computer Code by clicking the "Copy" Button. then send us a email with your Computer Code, your purchased online username and your email address.

(4) Once we get your email and confirmation with Autodesk App Store online subscription information, We will reply you with the license code to the email address you provided to us, normally within two working days. The subscription date will start from the day we reply to your email with the license key.

(5) You can copy the License Code to the Register Form to activate the commercial standard version.

(6) Please be advised that the Local License is tied to the Computer Code, any changes to your local computer hardware may cause your license code invalid, This is common practice for software license protection.

1. When you reading the excel register file and if application raise a error message like: "microsoft.ace.oledb.12.0 provider is not registered on the local machine". Solutions: You need to install "2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components". File name is AccessDatabaseEngine_X64.exe or AccessDatabaseEngine.exe, all based on your Version of Operation System. Please download from Microsoft website and reopen the application again should fix it well. Otherwise, try to install another version of "AccessDatabaseEngine".

2. After download this App and start installing on OS Windows 10, there is a window may pop up showing "Unknown Publisher", Please ignore this dialogue and click continue to install (Sometimes may need administrator right to override your system default setting)