I have been playing around with the autofill part of SketchUp Layout which is great for page titles and other such “baked in” things Layout has but on some drawings I am doing, the numbering system I use has optioning (ie. FX-5a, FX-5b) which doesn’t correspond to the page numbers since pages come as just (1,2,3,4,…). At the beginning of all my drawing sets, the first page has an index. Was wondering if there was a way to have a text box reference another text box as an autofill? Kind of how excel allows you to reference other things in the excel document. Not sure if there is a phrase or code that goes in-between the carrots <.> that I am not aware of.
Hope all of this makes sense and that someone can help.
Hi Mjwelage, if I am understanding your request correctly, the way you can accomplish this is to append a prefix and or a suffix to your text string. It will look something like this.
FX-<PageNumber.>a
or
FX-5 <PageLetter.>
or
FX-<PageNumber.><PageLetter.>
I had to add the periods b/c the forum removes the text within the <'s .
This does help. Didn’t know you could change it to be Page Letter. That’s cool.
Was wondering more of how to reference another text box’s information though. That way when I update the index number “FX-3C” in the index it updates on the fixture plan as well as on all the pages it happens to pop up on. That way if pages, numbers, and letters get rearranged, added, or removed I don’t have to copy and paste the algorithm around I just have to update a single textbox.
I see, the best way we could do that is to make a custom text Auto-Text that once this custom text is updated all associated Auto-Text fields would update.
I created a custom Auto-Text using the custom text option. I called it <StaticText.> and gave it the FX-3C value. Anything I add this Auto-Text to will get the FX-3C value and if I need to change this value I just need to edit the Auto-Text Custom Text field.
