Message Box when dwg opened...

Hi-

Got a request from my boss today. He was wondering if a message box can be
attached to a particular drawing file when it's opened in SWx and he asked
me to look into it. He basically would like to have a msgbox pop up if you
open a particular drawing file that unique instructions and the sort can be
displayed automatically. (ie- Messages to other engineers who might open
it, or a reminder to yourself that you should/shouldn't let access be given
for a particular department, etc) I know the answer someone will give is
most likely PDMworks, but the $ is not in the budget right now. Are there
any other ideas/tips someone has or maybe some 3rd party applications?

IYM

 

I put a note across from low left to High right corner, font 8 to 10mm. Put
it aside when printing...

 

There's no automatic way to do it without writing an add-in, and making
sure it's always loaded. I don't know if any PDM systems can do it, but PDM
might go a long way toward making sure the wrong people don't edit the
drawing.

 

Yea, I had thought about that and mentioned it - We could create the note as
you said and put it on another layer, hiding it when working on the drawing
or when printing, but there was the possibility that someone would forget to
show the layer before closing the file. I think he just wanted it a little
cleaner - Something similar to a Visual Basic msgbox that popped up when the
file was opened that you could just hit the OK button on and close it....

Thanks though....

IYM

 

This sort of thing used to be fairly standard practice some places.
Documenting your "standards" & conventions on certain layers
(even by customer to their standards).
A clever lad could also place executable text there too ... handy
in command-line systems or those that can use "macros".