Placing Drawing on Layouts

[Anonymous]

Aloha
Whenever I place a drawing on a Layout sheet, either by right clicking or dragging the drawing into the sheets title, ArchiCAD 11 changes the title of the drawing to 'First Floor Plan'.
Hopefully there is an embaressingly simple fix for this.
HELP!
mahalo
dean

[Erika Epstein]

Check what the drawing is reading as its name. In the info box look at the setting
'By View:'

[Anonymous]

Erika,
I am not sure what you are suggesting.

I attached a pdf of my screen / navigator.
In this view I have just dragged the selected "North Elevation' to the layout sheet Elevations, it appears at the bottom of the list as 'First Floor Plan'

thanks for any help sleuthing,
dean

[Anonymous]

Aloha
I think my screen print attached this time.
mahalo
dean

[Anonymous]

Dean

Kia Ora

Go to your layout. Select the drawing on the layout and go to "Drawing Selection Settings". In the options near the top of the dialogue there is "Drawing Name:" for which the options are "By View: Name only", "By View: ID + Name" and "Custom". It sounds like yours is set to Custom, with the custom text being "First Floor Plan". Change it to one of the By View options, then hit OK.

If you now use the syringe (ALT+click, CMD+click on Mac) to pick up the properties of the drawing (this resets the default settings), future placed drawings will take on the same properties.

HTH

[Erika Epstein]

You want the drawing to call the name of the view, see attached.
Select the drawing(s) on the layout and in the info box (see attached) or in the Drawing's Settings Box ctrl/cmd+T set what you want the name to be.