Drawing Title - Back Referencing for Detail Drawings

[Anonymous]

My drawing marker - for a Detail drawing - only ever gets one item in the Back Reference list. Is it possible to back reference to multiple layouts?

[Link]

Gidday Andrew

You should absolutely be able to back reference multiple drawings, however during my testing and template building, I have found the back reference link to be really flakey. For example AFAIK you can only successfully link back to a source marker, as opposed to a linked marker. And if you cut and paste that marker around the project the back reference link can be lost completely.

Could this be the situation with you?

Cheers,
Link.

[Link]

Or it could be simply that you are not updating the drawings (that contain the source markers) before trying to back reference additional drawings?

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Yes that sounds familiar.
Sections through multiple stories seem to work OK, you can back-reference to multiple drawings. But not details.
As you say, it seems like you can only back-reference to a Source marker, not to a Linked marker.

[Link]

So are you any better off? Or are you trying to back reference linked markers?

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Sorry Link, yes its the linked markers that I'm trying to get. I've edited my previous post as it didn't make sense. It seemed to make sense before lunch though!

[Link]

Clearer now!

Upon closer inspection, the reference guide specicifally says:

Back Reference: Click this button to access the Back Reference dialog box. If the current drawing is based on a source marker, then this dialog box will list any Layout whose Drawing displays the source marker of the current drawing.

So it looks like we're SOL. I guess there's some ugly workarounds, like placing minute drawings on layouts for referencing, but you'd have to be pretty keen!

Cheers,
Link.