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missgayley

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my real wish here is that someone tells me this can already be done....

if i could enter a formula in the "View Name" line, i would be a happy little girl.

i name my views by "Sheet Number (dash) Detail Number ~ would love for this to become an automated process - especially when i start moving details around on the sheets!

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You want this for the browser or for the view name on the sheet ? - wish you would have clearly asked.

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missgayley

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sorry, thought i was being clear...   the view name is the view name property, not the title on the sheet.

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OK... Many posters are not clear and because the title on the sheet defaults to the view name I asked.  Your answer then is no.  The title on sheet could be automatically done this way.

I don't know why you would want to do this.  It would be a nightmare to maintain.  Every sheet re-organization would require you to rename ... and thus you have the problems you are stating.

I believe it is good practice to name your views in a manner you can quickly identify them.  Remember, title on sheet can be different than view names.  So instead of "ELEVATION A" in the browser, you might have "Room 115 east elevation" and still have "ELEVATION A" on the sheet.  (  Our convention is that when browser view name doe not match sheet view name, we use upper/lower case. )

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i do rename for sheet rearranging, often, but for me it a housekeeping thing...  so i would shy from saying it's a "nightmare".. in most cases (for us), the sheet number will be what changes - the details typically maintain their positions.

also, naming the views by their sheet location really helps when an engineer tells me "i want detail 6 off S7.1" because it doesn't matter what other tool/library they have at their disposal, that is how i'm going to be asked. and when importing views from other projects, it is a fast-easy way to grab the ones i need.

but in the interest of being the best reviteer i can be....lemme ask... when you have a whole slew of steel to steel connections - how do you differentiate the view names?  it's not quite as easy as when you have elevations that can be identified by grid/directional

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Your right - your problem is harder...but every beam has a mark - correct?  Connection Mark64 - Mark 65 ?

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