Match Line - View reference

[tkrich00]

Has anyone had trouble with the "view reference" tag part of the Matchline. I have followed the instructions from Revit Help and I cannot get the tag to display the sheet number and Name - it on says "Ref". Does anyone have any suggestions.

[dhurtubise]

Did you put them on a sheet ?
Are you using the OOTB tag ?

[tkrich00]

The 2 dependant views are on a sheet - the overall is not (i have tried putting this on a sheet and it still does not work. I am using the view reference under the match line - not sure what the OOTB tag is?

[dhurtubise]

OOTB means Out Of The Box

[tkrich00]

then yes the view reference is from out of the box...

[jcoe]

Did you make sure the view reference tag was pointing to the correct view?

[tkrich00]

yes - it always says ref no matter which view I use

[srinivas.vemuri]

Make sure you loaded the View Reference Tag in your project. And update the View Referecnce Tag in its Element properties. See Attached image for further clarification.

Hope this helps,

[tkrich00]

Thank you so much - I thought I loaded the tag - the catagory does not show up on loaded tags. I guess I need to check other locations ie the family list and the type.

[Brockway]

OK. According to help and my many trials, one can not place a view reference in a plan that references a plan which IS NOT dependent. Correct?
Typically, we have a view pulled to a sheet which shows the entire plan (let's say 1/16" scale or smaller) then plans broken up across multiple sheets (let's say 1/8" scale or larger). Therefore the enlarged broken plans can not be dependent of the overall plans. Correct? However, I would still like to reference the plans from the overall plan. Do I need to make callouts to make this happen? In an attempt to do that, I notice that it locks me down to "Floor Plan." This means that I MUST have the same Callout Head for all. Boooooo! You can also not remove the leader and region easily. double boooooo!

*Sigh* Why can't we just add the "reference other view" checkbox like we have in every other view callout/ reference?