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Presentation Drawings – Title Block

Title blocks are a central part of presentation drawings in Gemini Terrain. They contain information about the drawing, project, scale, coordinate system, and other relevant details.

Standard Title Blocks

In the sys folder, you will find the program's standard title blocks. These follow the naming convention:

FI99hv.BIN

where:

  • h = corner number (1 = lower left, 2 = lower right, 3 = upper right, 4 = upper left)
  • v = variant number (1–9)

Available Standard Title Blocks

  • FI9921.bin – Standard title block
  • FI9922.bin – Small version of the title block
  • FI9924.bin – Title block for zoning plan

Title Blocks for Cross Sections

  • FI9913.bin – Title block for cross section
  • FI9912.bin – Title block for cross section 2

Title Block for Longitudinal Profile

  • FI9923.bin – Title block for longitudinal profile

Customizing Title Blocks

Title block files are located in the installation directory ...\sys\Market\<selected market>. To make changes, you should first copy the files to the User directory for the following reasons:

  1. Gemini Terrain usually does not have write access to the installation directory.
  2. Changes in the installation directory will be overwritten during a new program installation.

You can also duplicate existing title blocks and give them new names. For new title block files to be available in Gemini Terrain, they must be added to the TitlefieldWindow.txt file found in ...\sys\Market\<selected market>.

Common customizations

A common customization is to add a company logo to the title block so that it is automatically included on all future drawings.

Useful Special Commands for Title Blocks

When you open a title block (via File - Open – for example, select FI9921.BIM), the drawing will contain many elements in the command list. You can add new commands by entering the code for a command in the command field at the top left.

MO

MO specifies the absolute coordinates for the next inserted command.

You can insert an MO point using the command MO icon on the primitives toolbar.

PT

Gemini Terrain has some special "Point Text to Title block" commands, PT, as described below:

Code Function Description
7 Scale If there is no longitudinal or cross-section sheet in the presentation drawing, the scale for the last inserted map section is shown (also known as "42"). If a longitudinal or cross-section sheet exists, both X and Y scales are shown, as such sheets are often stretched in the X direction.
42 Scale from last inserted map section
43 Drawing information 1
44 Drawing information 2
45 Drawing information 3

PT vs. TT commands

PT commands work differently from the TT command in the DDS-CAD base. PT commands use the drawing information from the project menu by default, but this can be overridden in quick print so you can have different drawing information for different quick prints.

Older user-defined title blocks (created before version 16) may contain TT commands for inserting drawing information. These must be replaced with the PT command if you want this functionality in quick print.

Code Function
50 Coordinate system in plan
51 Coordinate system in height
60 Sheet size