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Add Autotext for user selected Drawing ID/Name

Professor Pickle
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At times, I find that I need to refer to a particular drawing, by ID or Name, inside a label or text note. For example, "Refer to elevation Bathroom 04", where "Bathroom 04" is an Autotext field whose value was selected by me from a list of drawings placed on my layouts.

 

I imagine this to work similarly to placing a linked marker where a list pops us to select what the marker will refer to. Once the Autotext field has been entered it will automatically update itself to reflect the ID/Name of the drawing.

Pushing the boundaries of local time/space continuum since 1972.
Archicad 26 | iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) | 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 | 24 GB | Radeon Pro 580 8 GB | macOS 12.6


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Professor Pickle
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Hey! Whaddaya know, this is already possible! I had no idea and I stumbled upon this feature quite by accident while I was looking at the list of available AUTOTEXT keywords. Here's the corresponding manual page for AC26:

 

https://help.Graphisoft.com/AC/26/INT/index.htm?rhcsh=1&rhnewwnd=0&rhmapid=#t=_AC26_Help%2F070_Docum...

 

Pushing the boundaries of local time/space continuum since 1972.
Archicad 26 | iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) | 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 | 24 GB | Radeon Pro 580 8 GB | macOS 12.6


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Professor Pickle
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Hey! Whaddaya know, this is already possible! I had no idea and I stumbled upon this feature quite by accident while I was looking at the list of available AUTOTEXT keywords. Here's the corresponding manual page for AC26:

 

https://help.Graphisoft.com/AC/26/INT/index.htm?rhcsh=1&rhnewwnd=0&rhmapid=#t=_AC26_Help%2F070_Docum...

 

Pushing the boundaries of local time/space continuum since 1972.
Archicad 26 | iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) | 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 | 24 GB | Radeon Pro 580 8 GB | macOS 12.6