Tutorial AC: Title block and revision block from the release

Books

Drake, Dimensioning and Tolerancing Handbook, ch. 4 (title block, revision block); Wünsch, Pilz and Vajna, Siemens NX für Einsteiger, 6.3 (Titelfeld ausfüllen)
Standards

ISO 7200 (title block fields), ISO 5457 (sheet sizes and frame)
You learn

Drafting › Populate Title Block, the revision block from the release history
Runs first

T (the guide bush and its drawing) and V (releases A and B)

The guide bush was released as BUSH-100 revision A, then changed (ECO-001: the bore became F7) and released as revision B. Its drawing should say so, without anyone retyping the PLM record.

Step by step

1. The drawing

Ctrl+Shift+D switches to Drafting, and the sheet from tutorial T is selected. It uses FreeCAD’s default template, which has no title block.

2. Populate Title Block

Home › Drawing › Populate Title Block. The sheet has no title block, so the dialog gives it the A4 ISO 5457 template with an ISO 7200 title block. The fields come filled:

  • drawing number BUSH-100 and revision B, from release B;

  • the title Guide bush, which is what release A called the part;

  • the status Released, who released it and the date;

  • the general tolerances from the PMI: ISO 2768-mK. The tolerancing note that Inherit PMI put on the sheet in tutorial T goes, because the title block states it now;

  • the scale and the sheet, from the drawing.

Revision block is ticked: one row for A and one for B, each with what changed.

The fields as they come from the release
The sheet with its title block and revision block

The replay

# In the book (NX) In FreeCAD NX-Style Result Notes

AC1

The guide bush’s drawing (tutorial T) in Drafting

Ctrl+Shift+D; the sheet selected in the Part Navigator

same

template Default_Template_A4_Landscape.svg: FreeCAD’s default sheet has no title block

AC2

Drafting > Populate Title Block: from release B, the revision block from the releases

ribbon 'Home › Drawing > Populate Title Block'; the fields come filled; 'Revision block' ticked; OK button

differs

dialog: {'drawing_number': 'BUSH-100', 'revision_index': 'B', 'title': 'Guide bush', 'general_tolerances': 'ISO 2768-mK'}; sheet: number BUSH-100, rev B, Released, by NX-Style replay, tolerancing 'ISO 2768-mK'; revision block rows [('A', 'Guide bush', '2026-10-26', 'NX-Style replay'), ('B', 'ECO-001: bore F7', '2026-10-26', 'NX-Style replay')]. NX: Populate Title Block from DB_PART_NO and DB_PART_REV (Teamcenter); here from Strata
Result Means

same

The book’s NX steps work as written.

differs

It works, but the FreeCAD way is different; the notes say how.

limit

The book’s way fails in FreeCAD itself; a workaround follows in the next steps.

missing

FreeCAD has no such function; a stand-in follows.

skipped

Not replayed; the notes give the reason.

FAILED

Did not work.

What differs from NX

  • NX fills the title block from Teamcenter attributes such as DB_PART_NO and DB_PART_REV; here they come from Strata’s release record, or from the same attributes in the document’s Meta.

  • NX’s revision table is a tabular note that you fill in. NX-Style draws it from the releases.

  • Zones (the revision’s place on the sheet grid) are not recorded.