Fields enhance the documentation capabilities within a drawing file. A field is updatable text that is set up to display data that may change during the life cycle of the drawing. When the field is updated, the latest value of the field is displayed. Usually, you use property set data for this type of updatable information about the building model. However, property set data can be used only in MV-blocks. Fields can be inserted into manual properties in property set definitions, text, MText, attribute definitions and AutoCAD table cells.
There are a number of predefined fields for sheet set information. Most of the fields refer to the current sheet, and should be inserted only in a sheet drawing.
When you are creating a callout tool, you will often use a field from the Sheet Set Placeholder category: These fields let you define a field as a placeholder in a callout for a referenced sheet. The fields are resolved when the callout is referenced into a sheet.
- Current Sheet Custom: You can select an AutoCAD custom property defined for the current sheet here.
- Current Sheet Description
- Current Sheet Number
- Current Sheet Number and Title
- Current Sheet Set
- Current Sheet Set Custom: You can select an AutoCAD custom property defined for the current sheet here.
- Current Sheet Set Description
- Current Sheet Subset
- Current Sheet Title
- Sheet Set: You can select any sheet from a sheet set as the field content; available properties are sheet title, sheet number and sheet description.
- Sheet Set Placeholder: You can insert a placeholder representing information of a sheet. This placeholder is resolved when the callout is referenced into a sheet. The following fields are available as placeholders:
- Sheet Number and Title
- Sheet Title
- Sheet Number
- Sheet Description
- Sheet custom: You can select an AutoCAD custom property defined for the referenced sheet here.
- (Model Space) View Number and Title
- (Model Space) View Title
- (Model Space) View Number
- (Model Space) Viewport Scale
Note: The fields for sheet title, sheet number, sheet description, view title, and view number can be associated with a hyperlink that jumps to the sheet or model space view referenced.
- Sheet View: You can select any sheet view from a sheet set as the field content here; available properties are sheet view number, sheet view title, and sheet view viewport scale.
Note: The fields for sheet view number and sheet view title can be associated with a hyperlink that jumps to the sheet view referenced.