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#1 Verlin Klassen

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Posted 30 May 2020 - 11:50 AM

I don't know how many of you draw this way, but I put detail markers on my floor plans referencing the details. These markers show detail number, floor plan page number, and detail page number. I have often wished that these labels could be generated and be live like cross section and elevation labels and markers. That way I wouldn't have to renumber everything if details got moved to a different page or pages were moved or inserted in the plan set.  I recently came up with something that, while it is slightly cumbersome, works well. For those of you that use interior elevations quite a bit in your plans sets, this might not work so well, but I seldom show interior elevations.

Here is the process:

  1. Place an interior elevation marker on the drawing wherever you want to reference to a detail
  2. Generate the elevation
  3. Save As the name of the detail
  4. Open up the saved elevation
  5. Erase everything on the interior elevation drawing
  6. Import or draw the applicable detail
  7. The detail can now be added to a plan set page, removed, changed to a different page, plan set pages can now be arranged and the labelling on the floor plan and the detail page will always be correct just like elevations.

 

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#2 Mark Petri

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Posted 01 June 2020 - 01:36 PM

Nice work-around Verlin.


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