Back Referencing Sheet Names on Drawing Titles

Is it possible to back reference a sheet name (we call sheet identification number) in a drawing title?  For example, if we have a building section cut on sheet A-110 and placed on sheet A-301, can it’s drawing title bubble on A-301 show 1/A-110 where it is cut from?  We can’t seem to get it to work.  All we get is 1/A-301 in the drawing title bubble on sheet A-301 which is not a “back reference”.

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  • @Eric, after reading the article and trying it on my files, I can't see how to do it manually either... forget about automatically.  Can you?

    @Steve, As stated above, I can't get it to work automatically or manually and don't think it can be done.  That is strange as back referencing sheet id numbers (sheet names) is a very common practice.  For now I just double clicked the drawing title bubble’s sheet name (1/A-301 while in sheet A-301) and overtyped the field with the text A-110. It’s not great, but it is better than showing 1/A-301 on sheet A-301.  I find this process seamless in Revit.

    Thanks to both of you.

    Mark Mates - BIM Manager - Mason & Hanger

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  • You're welcome.  

    I know we have (at least) a few Enhancements logged with our Platform team for expanding how files and models are or can be linked, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was somewhere in that list...

    It may be worthwhile cross-posting to the MicroStation forum to see if others have tried this before.

     



  • I can ant ti is more manual than automatic.  Note that there are more ways to do this than one and I have settled on my way.  Not necessarily the better way.

    I am in my Model

    I create my drawing View

    When doing so I make sure it has a descriptive name for the BV "Section - E-W thru Lobby"  (A BV is a Drawing View with the Building smarts like hatching)

    I Let MS go ahead and create a Drawing Model as it will automatically attach the BV

    I annotate and dimension in the Drawing Model.  No title yet as that is part of the sheet drawing and not the Drawing Model

    Then I open my sheet file and attach the Drawing Model - When I do I make sure that at the bottom of the reference dialog that I tell it to place a title block and give it the name (Manually)

    Then after I place the drawing model I place the title in the location best suited to what is on the sheet.

    It really has little smarts to it - I can as quickly place a title cell that has better visual appearance

    There is no coordination or TOC or Index of these drawings YET - so the title is placed but is not really intelligent

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    Eric D. Milberger
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