Editing Title Block Assignments in Revit with Ideate BIMLink

Use type swapping to edit the kind of title block assigned to each sheet in a Revit project easily with Ideate BIMLink.


Here's how:


  1. Start Ideate BIMLink and select "Load Sample..."
  2. Select the link definition "Title_Blocks" and then hit "Next."
  3. Within the Properties dialog confirm that the “Family and Type” property is included.
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4.  From the "Link" tab, confirm that the Link Option to “Export with drop-down values” is selected.


edit title blocks

5.  When you export the data to Excel, you will see a drop-down option. See below.  In this example, the list of choices is defined in column F for use as a data validation within column D.

edit title block

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