https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/Marker-References-and-External-Drawings/m-p/201572#M58414 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>If I’m reading the AC15 Reference Guide right, I can create a section viewpoint, then switch reference to “the first placed drawing of the selected view”, and place the referenced drawing in a separate .pln file serving as the Layout Book.<BR /> <BR /> However, the marker auto references in the model file won’t fill in with the Layout Book numbers.<BR /> <BR /> After reading a couple posts here, maybe the marker only updates in the Layout Book (which it does successfully). Having discovered this, the wording in the Reference Guide (p. 651) seems a little vague:<BR /> <BR /> “Once the Layout Book that contains the reference drawing is opened alongside the project containing the marker, the marker will fill in the correct drawing data.”<BR /> <BR /> I would have thought the model file marker would fill in automatically with the layout book numbers.<BR /> <BR /> If layouts were kept in the model file, while for some odd reason the placed drawing was in a separate file, looks like it doesn’t work.<BR /> <BR /> Am I missing something?</T></DIV> Fri, 26 May 2023 14:38:44 GMT Craig Bagley 2023-05-26T14:38:44Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/Marker-References-and-External-Drawings/m-p/201572#M58414 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>If I’m reading the AC15 Reference Guide right, I can create a section viewpoint, then switch reference to “the first placed drawing of the selected view”, and place the referenced drawing in a separate .pln file serving as the Layout Book.<BR /> <BR /> However, the marker auto references in the model file won’t fill in with the Layout Book numbers.<BR /> <BR /> After reading a couple posts here, maybe the marker only updates in the Layout Book (which it does successfully). Having discovered this, the wording in the Reference Guide (p. 651) seems a little vague:<BR /> <BR /> “Once the Layout Book that contains the reference drawing is opened alongside the project containing the marker, the marker will fill in the correct drawing data.”<BR /> <BR /> I would have thought the model file marker would fill in automatically with the layout book numbers.<BR /> <BR /> If layouts were kept in the model file, while for some odd reason the placed drawing was in a separate file, looks like it doesn’t work.<BR /> <BR /> Am I missing something?</T></DIV> Fri, 26 May 2023 14:38:44 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/Marker-References-and-External-Drawings/m-p/201572#M58414 Craig Bagley 2023-05-26T14:38:44Z