SO I NEWLY HAVE AUTOCAD 2015 AND AM TRYING TO TAKE ON MAKING USE OF SOME OF THESE FANCY NEW FEATURES INCLUDING FIELDS AND CUSTOM PROPERTIES. I ORGINALLY WANTED TO MAKE USE OF VIEWS AND PLACING CALLOUT BLOCKS WITH PLACEHOLDER ATTRIBUTES. THOUGH WITH THE NATURE OF OUR DETAILS CHANGING SHEETS THIS SEEM TO BE A MAJOR HANG UP IN USING THAT, AS VIEW WOULD NEED TO BE RE-ESTABLISHED AND ANY REFERENCES TO A MOVED VIEW WOULD NEED TO BE RELINKED TO THE NEW VIEW. SO REALLY TAKING THE TIME SAVING ASPECT OUT OF THE EQUATION.
NEXT I GOT THE BRIGHT IDEA OF USING CUSTOM SHEET SET PROPERTIES. FOR EXAMPLE I CREATE 3 CUSTOM PROPERTIES FOR EACH DETAIL. THEY ARE NAMED:
DETAIL A NAME
DETAIL A NUMBER
DETAIL A SHEET
DETAIL B... AND SO ON
THE IDEA WAS THE SHEET SET CUSTOM PROPERTY LIST WAS TO BE THE RECORD OF MY DETAIL NAMES NUMBERS AND SHEETS THEY APPEAR ON SO IF ANYTHING CHANGES THIS WOULD BE THE ONLY LOCATION TO CHANGE THE INFO. I COULD THEN REFERENCE THIS INFO ANYWHERE (I.E. MY CALLOUT BLOCKS FOR THE NUMBERS AND SHEET NUMBERS, ANY LABELS OR ANY WHERE ELSE THIS INFO COULD BE USED IN A DRAWINGS SET) AS IT TURNS OUT THE ONLY LOCATION THIS INFO WILL WORK IS IN PAPERSPACE. I GET HOW A CURRENT SHEET CUSTOM PROPERTY WOULD ONLY WORK IN PAPERSPACE AS THE SHEER PLACEMENT IN PAPERSPACE INDICATES THE SHEET TO LOOK AT. I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT A CUSTOM SHEET SET PROPERTY WOULD BE INDEPENDENT OF A PARTICULAR SHEET AND WOULD BE AVAILABLE TO MODEL AND PAPER SPACE.
THIS IS A DETAILED TOPIC I FEEL TO EASILY DISCUSS VIA A POSTING BUT CAN ANYONE SEE WHAT I AM TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH HERE AND HAVE ANY RECOMMENDATION ON HOW I MAY BE ABLE TOO. ESSENTIALLY IN ONE FASHION OR ANOTHER I WANT TO HAVE A SINGLE SOURCE CONTROLLING DETAIL NAMES, NUMBERS, AND SHEETS THAT I CAN REFERENCE INTO MODEL AND PAPER SPACE INTO CALLOUT BLOCKS, MTEXT AND TABLES.
ANY IDEAS WOULD BE HELPFUL!!!