Parameters for Wall Assemblies Titleblock

[Anonymous]

Hi Everyone - Arch tech student here. Just wondering if it's possible to set up your title block parameters in such a way that when your inserting views into it - say a wall assemblies legend - your titleblock will automatically update labels (say wall type or FRR/ULC, etc.). What would the parameter and/or formulas need to look like in order to do this?

If anyone can help it's much appreciated.

[barthbradley]

Can you elaborate a bit?  Maybe throw in an illustration?  

[ToanDN]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Hi Everyone - Arch tech student here. Just wondering if it's possible to set up your title block parameters in such a way that when your inserting views into it - say a wall assemblies legend - your titleblock will automatically update labels (say wall type or FRR/ULC, etc.). What would the parameter and/or formulas need to look like in order to do this?

If anyone can help it's much appreciated.

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What if you place more than one views on a sheet?

[Anonymous]

Yeah sure - so if I have my assemblies sheet set up something like the example below, but I want to add some formulas to my label parameters so the labels automatically populate the name of the wall as well as the fire rating associated with the wall type, what would those parameters need to be? I'm new to formula language in Revit so I'm not even really sure where to start, but I feel like this should be able to be done. For instance, the project I'm working on right now has like 30 different wall types and rather then just making text for each one for them (name, FRR, ULC, etc.)  is it possible for you to make your labels in such a way that they grab data right from the properties of the wall types associated with each wall?

I asked a couple of my profs as well as other students in my class and all of their minds were bottled...

Hope this makes it a bit clearer.

 

[Anonymous]

I was thinking about that as well - but I would still need to add some formulas to the parameters to get the properties data (FRR, etc.) from the wall types right?

[barthbradley]

Sounds like a Wall Legend to me.  Is that what you are doing?  

[Anonymous]

Yeah, that's the view I'm trying to put on the sheet.

[ToanDN]

I would create the legend border as a viewport title type so that you can add labels for parameters related to the actual view.

[barthbradley]

@Anonymous wrote:
Yeah, that's the view I'm trying to put on the sheet.

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"View" or "Views" (plural)?

Sounds like you are creating a bunch of Views that each display a single Wall Type and placing those Views on a Sheet.  

But, there is an alternative to a Wall Legend.  A Wall "Legend" VIEW.  That is, create a "pre-existing" Phase to contain a representative Wall for every Wall Type you have in the Project, and set all of these Walls' Phase Demolished to "Existing" Phase (or whatever your first Project Construction Phase is named).   Then use Wall Tags to report whatever Wall Type Properties you want shown next to each of the Walls in the View.