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Hello,

I'm having an issue referencing other views.  Several callouts are not showing up in my drop-down choices.  Any suggestions on settings that I need to check?  Example:  I have a building section and I put a callout on it to detail a fascia.  Then in the same building section and others, I attempt to put a callout referencing the first callout.  However, the first callout is not available as an option.

Oddities:  The first callout WAS available before I changed the name from Detail 0 to something more descriptive.  Also, if I attempt to put a section/detail in, the first callout is available as an option in the drop-down choices.

 Thanks for any help.

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Help! I have the same problem. 

I have a few similar sections, and have callouts: A1 A2, referencing one of them: A, and on another: C, I have placed callouts that reference these, but on the third: B, those callouts: A1, A2, do not appear on the dropdown list when Reference other view is selected.

Any suggestions?

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After purging and clearing out the file to reduce the file size, those views have reappeared in the dropdown list...

I guess I'll play around with the original a bit.

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I cannot find why some views are missing from the dropdown list.

See screen capture.

At least 3 section views are missing. 2 of which I want to have as similar reference callouts.

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Available reference views are dependent on the view type you are creating.  For instance, you can't reference an elevation with a plan view callout.

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Thanks for the response.

Yes, I can see that might be an issue for some situations, but all the views I am interested in creating references within and to are Sectional. Some Sectional views are not showing up in the list.  My screen capture doesn't show the complete list, but all those views visible in the Project Browser list on the right are Sections, and the dropdown list on the left does not include those circled ones.

Any other suggestions as to where the problem may be?

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Without having more information, my question is what really are those views you have circled in the browser?  I know you think of them as section views but if the were pulled from a callout of a section or are drafting view sections, they will not be listed in the section view area of the drop down. 

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Hi,

Thanks again for the response.

Here is another screen capture showing the "Section" folder, so you can see they are Section views.

The odd thing here is that  now only one of the three Sections that were missing previously is missing: "Entry Door Head". 

The views that have reappeared in the Reference Dropdown list are: "Deck/Door Sill" and "Door Head Ceiling". In the previous screen capture they were in the Project Browser list, but not in the Reference dropdown.

I am trying to create these reference callouts in the same sectional view as before. That has not changed.

There should be no problem referencing any of these views in a section as the original is in a section, and there are already are referenced callouts to them in another section as well.

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I know this is an old thread, but I had a similar issue and stumbled upon a fix, that I thought I'd share.

We had a site plan, and we were trying to put a callout to reference two already created floor plans, through the "reference other view" dropdown, but our two floor plans were not showing up. Turns out, those floorplans were not cropped. As soon as I selected crop (on those two floor plans) and tried to place the callout again, they appeared in the dropdown. 

Go figure.

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