Sheet Set Manager, Custom Properties Question

[Anonymous]

C3D 2019, 2020

In SSM i am wondering what I should set as the owner of certain custom properties, namely TotalSheets which is the total number of sheets in the set.

I have had it set to the Sheet being the owner. However, if I add a sheet I have to go into the properties of every sheet and edit its custom property, TotalSheets.

If i set the owner to Sheet Set will it update automatically upon editing the custom property at the highest level, i.e., the properties of the sheet set (name)?

thanks

[cwr-pae]

I have mine at the sheet set level, after all that is where it general belongs. I do have occasions where I need a different sheet count for different sheet groupings, since we cant associated custom fields to subset, I attach them to the overall sheet set also and have to modify the field for the individual sheets (copy and paste the first one to all remaining for speed)

[Anonymous]

Yeah, it is kind of a pain to have to edit the properties of every sheet.

[Joe-Bouza]

"SheetSet" = GLOBAL

"Sheet"= LOCAL

Think of it that way

[MMcCall402]

Custom property of the Sheet Set. Edit once and done.

[Anonymous]

I will give it a shot, thanks!

[Neilw_05]

I don't know if you can make it dynamic to the total in the set since a set can have any number of subsets. How would it know which sheets should be in the total? Like others suggest, just add a field to the set and manually update it as sheets are added or removed.

P.S. I guess it would make sense to have it dynamic if you always include all the sheets in a set. Sometimes I have subsets that I use for in house review that are not included in submittals (i.e.. cross sections).

Just for the sake of the topic, is there a total sheets property in a sheet set?

[ChrisRS]

I agree with @MMcCall402 .

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@MMcCall402 wrote:

Custom property of the Sheet Set. Edit once and done.

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@Neilw_05, If you want to number sheet subsets individually and add subset total sheets you will need a Sheet Set Custom property for each subset. To make this automatic, each subset will need to use a different sheet template that refers to the correct subset total custom property.

[lynn_zhang]

Thanks everyone for your insights!

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