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Like most places, I set up a clients sheets with a "Discipline" parameter for organization purposes.
Unfortunately when you make a new sheet, it leaves this parameter blank and you have to manually input it.
Is there a way to have this automatically default to the "Architecture" discipline when you create a new sheet?
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Type based...
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You can do this, but only if the sheet is empty (no view, legends, etc.). Right click the empty sheet in your project browser and click 'Copy to Clipboard'. Hover your mouse back to the project enviornment. Then, on the Modfiy ribbon, collapse Paste and select 'Paste from Clipboard'. It will create a new sheet that retains most of your instance params.
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WWHub's answer is the correct one. As long as the discipline is part of the titleblock you can just create a new type of said titleblock and then set defaults for any and all parameters associated with it. It does not matter at all if there are things currently on the sheet. Nothing gets romoved if you change which titleblock you are using.
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"Correct" is relative. Method posted above is valuable if your workflow requires instance parameters in your sheets.
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Indeed zsmith. They also already have type parameters for the titleblock so it wouldn't really fit or make sense to create new types that have to do with the disciplines.
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revitape ... I don't understand "...it wouldn't really fit or make sense to create new types that have to do with the disciplines. ..." Why? Types are so easy and they really don'e affect file size.
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I'm saying we already have types for the titleblocks right now. In this case it would be like having 5 types of apples then you throw 2 oranges in there. It's possible, but not consistent with what we have already.
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It would seem to me that you obviously want a 6th type in your sheet family. but if you dont want to do that just go into the current type you are using and open up the family parameters and under discipine put the one you want and that will be the what it defaults too once you have saved the family and loaded it back in.
Also zsmith, you can have both instance and type parameters in the same family. the type parameters will be defined by the type and the instance ones will be free to change to whatever you like no matter what type you are using.
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It would seem to me that you obviously want a 6th type in your sheet family. but if you dont want to do that just go into the current type you are using and open up the family parameters and under discipine put the one you want and that will be the what it defaults too once you have saved the family and loaded it back in.
Also zsmith, you can have both instance and type parameters in the same family. the type parameters will be defined by the type and the instance ones will be free to change to whatever you like no matter what type you are using.
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Please, spare me the Revit 101. Especially if that solution seems like the obvious solution to you.
There's this notion among Revit users that 'everything that can be type-based should be type-based'. I abandoned that untruth long ago. The reason has nothing to do with organization and everything to do with workflow.
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