How to Link text from one sheet to a field in another sheet

[Anonymous]

I am using Inventor 2010 (I know this is my first problem, but you have to use what you're given!) and I need to use the sheet number in a calculation that will display the result in a text box.  =((<SHEET NUMBER>-1)8)=1  displays a result of ((11-1)8)+1. I suspect that the sheet number is being brought in as text instead of a number. I tried adding atoi to the equation to convert the sheet number to an integer, but it did not work.Is there an alternate source for the sheet number that will return a number? Is my syntax wrong?

Thank you in advance for your kind assistance!

[cbenner]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I am using Inventor 2010 (I know this is my first problem, but you have to use what you're given!) and I need to use the sheet number in a calculation that will display the result in a text box.  =((<SHEET NUMBER>-1)8)=1  displays a result of ((11-1)8)+1. I suspect that the sheet number is being brought in as text instead of a number. I tried adding atoi to the equation to convert the sheet number to an integer, but it did not work.Is there an alternate source for the sheet number that will return a number? Is my syntax wrong?

Thank you in advance for your kind assistance!

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Welcome!

Your syntax looks right... I just don't know that you can create equations in Inventor's text tool.  May I ask what you are trying to get from this?  The resulting text does show the sheet number.... it just doesn't do anything with it in terms of the equation.  A search on the Wiki Help shows no results for equations in Inventor text.