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Sheet parameter is not the same as title block parameter

mobilis7TPTP — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 15:32:58 GMT

Hello,

Can somebody help me. I added a shared parameter called DRAFT.
If i put YES in the parameter the text DRAFT should appear on the sheet heading.
But it doesn't work, it only works if I first select the title block and then press it.
And i can assure your, if you have 100 plans where you have to put draft on, you do not want to open every sheet, click on the title block and put the draft on.
As you can see on the images underneath. The box on the sheet can be unchecked and DRAFT will still be placed, it's the box on the titel block that creates it.
Anybody a sollucion?

Re: Sheet parameter is not the same as title block parameter

ToanDN — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 15:42:24 GMT

Create a visibility shared parameter called Show Draft
Create a label in the titleblock family, add the shared parameter to the list. Add a calculated value parameter and type in the formula: if ( Show Draft, "DRAFT", " " )
Load the titleblock in the project
Add the shared parameter above to the project, assign to Sheets category
Now you can select a bunch of sheets in the browser, tick Show Draft box from properties, and the DRAFT will show on those sheets titleblocks

Re: Sheet parameter is not the same as title block parameter

syman2000 — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 16:12:18 GMT

Is the draft parameter added long time ago or you recently added in? If you added in and have it check ON, it will set to that state as default. If you decided to check it off in the family and load it back into project, it won't respect your changes. One way I make this work is to select the family inside the project. You can right click on the titleblock and select all instance in entire project

You should see in your properties number of titleblock in your project. You can check that DRAFT off.

I would then set up global parameter so next time you can go to Manage>Global Parameter, you can turn ON/OFF the parameter and it will apply to all the titleblock you have selected

Re: Sheet parameter is not the same as title block parameter

ToanDN — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 17:16:46 GMT

A demonstration of the approach I posed earlier.

Re: Sheet parameter is not the same as title block parameter

mobilis7TPTP — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 10:49:37 GMT

Thanks for the help!

Re: Sheet parameter is not the same as title block parameter

pbanerjeeZVV33 — Fri, 17 May 2024 14:25:23 GMT

Hey everyone,

Very helpful to see that I wasn't the only one loosing my mind over this. My solution was to just write a Dynamo Script which pulled information from the sheets and put it in the titleblock on that sheet. I select all sheets in the project browser to apply a specific parameter, then run the script to push the parameters into the titleblock.