How does one set up a text box on a drawing sheet that can be populated without going to sheet format? Yes I have read a few posts on similar topics and yes I could set up a text box in the drawing custom properties and to link the field in the title block and fill it out in the custom properties task pain but as I understand the drawing custom properties links only to all the sheets in a drawing file and not to the individual sheet in view.
The reason I want to do this is I have a main assembly and sub assemblies on the same sheet and would like to name the subassemblies in the title block and I can only do that by manually typing it in
You can use the custom properties of the document that appears on the drawing within any drawing view. Each sheet can point to different drawing views (presumably, but not necessarily one on the same sheet as the sheet). This can be set up done in the Sheet Properties dialog, along with using the correct $PRP codes.