Drawing list order

[rstiles]

My question deals with the Drawing Index that you typically see on
the cover sheet of any set of drawings. Usually, the index might consist
of a drawing list similar to below...

C1.1 Site Plan
C2.1 Grading Plan
A1.1 Floor Plan
A2.1 Elevation
............etc

Well as you know, Revit organizes it for you into a schedule, by placing
all your sheets in alphabetical order. My question is how do you get the
drawings to show up like I have it shown above if they are always in
alphabetical order? That would mean that all of my "C" (Civil) series
drawings would always be after the "A" series (Architectural). Basically
our drawings would never show up in the order that we want.

Hopefully this makes sense. Thanks for your time.

[Norton_cad]

Try altering your filter setting on your schedule thus...

[Dwane Lindsey]

rstiles....

Check out this post http://revit-archcenter.blogspot.com...anization.html

I basically have custom parameters that allow you to organize your index the way you want.

[rstiles]

yeah the custom parameter worked great. just labeled the order of the sheets and then sorted by the custom parameter and then hide the column

thanks all
Russ

[patricks]

Try altering your filter setting on your schedule thus...

This makes the schedule blank, because there are no sheets that contain both A and C letters. I don't believe filtering can be used for this purpose. If it can, though, I'd love to hear it, because the Sort Order parameter for every sheet is a bit clunky and annoying to deal with IMHO.

[twiceroadsfool]

I dont vary a sheet sort order for EVERY sheet, but i have mine as follows:

I have a "discipline" parameter that it sorts by, THEN it sorts by sheet number.

I only have a few different disciplines, and theyre prefixed with numbers. For instance:

01 Genera Information
02 Structural
04 Architecture
06 mechanica
08 Electrical
10 Plumbing

In his case i would add one in between Arch and Struct, and they would move to the head of the arch pack. Its not ideal, but if were going to ask it to list them in a logical fashion, it has to have something to go on...

[patricks]

I dont vary a sheet sort order for EVERY sheet, but i have mine as follows:

I have a "discipline" parameter that it sorts by, THEN it sorts by sheet number.

I only have a few different disciplines, and theyre prefixed with numbers. For instance:

01 Genera Information
02 Structural
04 Architecture
06 mechanica
08 Electrical
10 Plumbing

In his case i would add one in between Arch and Struct, and they would move to the head of the arch pack. Its not ideal, but if were going to ask it to list them in a logical fashion, it has to have something to go on...

Yes, that's how we do it as well, but I just use an Integer field with a 1 for Civil, 2 for architectural, and so on. When I said it's clunky, I just meant it's a pain to have to enter the number for every new sheet you create. When you're entering them on the schedule, it can be hard to go through and add a number to a bunch of sheets quickly since it automatically sorts the sheet as soon as you add a number to it, and the cursor is always jumping around (you can't type a number, hit enter, type a number, etc.).

It would be nice if it could automatically sort C sheets before A sheets, even when you add new sheets.

[twiceroadsfool]

I do it in the project browser for that reason... Select ten sheets at once, go to the properties... The filed is editable with multiple sheets selected...

[patricks]

ah yes, I always forget about the old "select multiple sheets at once" trick. But, I still would like it to sort correctly automatically

Because invariably, sheets are added as a project progresses, and invariably, someone always ends up printing a set including the title sheet without checking to see that the drawing list looks correct, and we always end up having to re-print the title sheet. Would save a foot or twenty of paper off of every 36" roll.

[twiceroadsfool]

I agree, but what does *sort correctly* mean? Thats what i meant about it having logic. So, we want them to go in order numerically, but WE think C should come before A. ive seen firms use G gor General information as well.

Plus, a lot of firms dont go in the same order of C/S/A/M/E/P, so how COULD it possibly do it automatically?

I suppose ONE way, is it could list them numerically in ascending orer by default, and we could manually move them in the list. But then that sheet would have to forever be disengaged from automation, for the system to work. Then we would have a MESS when people didnt check it at the end of the job.

It could automatically give us "Sheet selection groups," but thats really what weve done with added parameters.

Its my complaint about the term "workaround." In a ware that has to operate based on some sort of impled logic, what IS proper behavior,and what IS a workaround?