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I would like to have a view parameter, which acts like an identification number, so I can sort the views by this ID number in the project browser. However, I would also like this number to show up as text in the lower corner of the drawing in each view. Instead of having the parameter, and then creating dumb text that matches it in each view,; I want to create intelligent text that somehow references the parameter, and simply puts that parameter text in the drawing. Seems simple, but I can't figure out how to do it. Do you do it with a genneric annotation family, a generic tag (but there is no family in the view to tag), an annotation symbol? Should I be using shared parameters?
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You should be able to create a shared parameter to do this. Load the parameter in the project and the titleblock family. The project browser should be able to sort by that parameter, and the titleblock can have a label that reads the parameter.
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I guess I should note that it must be in each view, not the Titleblock. The primary reason for this ID numbering system is to ID dertails, of which there are likely to be 20 on each page. I have played with shared parameters, but I can't get them into generic annotations, and though you can put them in a tag, I do not have a particular family to tag.
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Has anybody solved this? I would like to do something very similar (add a tag within a view that references properties of that view, for example drawing number and title.) This is because our detail library will need to be printed and saved in a binder in order for people to be able to flip through the details. Sure, I could drag every single detail onto its own sheet with a titleblock and print that (it's what we did at my last firm) but I would prefer to avoid that extra step and the associated clutter in the file tree.
And please don't tell me people should just use a schedule to search within the Revit file. I can do that, but several of our older project managers prefer paper.
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Why paper? I thought we were all well beyond that.
We use a detail project where details are organized on sheets named and numbered according to type of detail. To use, you open the detail project up and browse through the sheets to find what you need. Then use the insert view command.
ADVANTAGES
- Always up to date
- No publication required
- Easy to find what you need ... a visual resource!
- Special considerations can be marked in red on the sheets (but no need to load) so the user knows what to do.
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A view has several unique ID numbers in the Revit database, but they are not visible for the user in the interface. A plugin can be easily created to bring that ID to a visible field if that is necessarily - but I don't think that one wants to use the database IDs.
A custom plugin can also change the value of a certain text in the view, to mactch a custom text field or the view name.
The view name can be manually used as as ID number, and sorted that way in the project browser if needed. The view title can then be alternatively used in the sheet if required.
We usually solve this with numbered sheets: thats what titleblocks are for among other things. That works, but and very important will let us print in the right scale too.
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