How to print the multi page Drawing list

[juha-pekka.rindell]

Hey !

As a newbie maybe this is very simple but I have not done it ever.
How to print the multi page document from a single sheet, like the drawing list or some other schedule ?

What I tired to do was
- placed several title blocks/borders at the same sheet
- splitted the drawing list to several pages

But when printing there was only one page printing.

(and how about the page numbers ?)

[J. Grouchy]

If I understand you correctly, you tried to create several sheets on the same sheet view. Revit does not work that way...a "sheet" is an individual page. I don't even know HOW you would place multiple titleblocks on the same sheet unless you created it as a group or something. Typically a titleblock is its own family with labels and such and only one instance can appear per sheet view in the Revit project.
If you are just trying to print multiple sheets, in the print dialog you "Select Views/Sheets" and check off the sheets you want to print.

[juha-pekka.rindell]

So what is the the way to go then?
How would do create the A4 drawing list?
Creating it page by page?

I hope I don't have to export it to excel anyway, when I would lose the immediate coordination !!

[J. Grouchy]

Perhaps I'm not really understanding what you are trying to accomplish...
Maybe if you could post an example of what you are trying to do? Or if someone else knows what you mean they could help...

[beegee]

Juha,

Do you mean batch printing - using " selected views / sheets " button from the print range - Print dialogue ?

[J. Grouchy]

I have a feeling j-p is used to setting up multiple sheets in one view...maybe model space in AutoCAD...and is attempting to do that in Revit. That's what I got from his initial question...but I may be wrong.

[Jit]

Beegee

Can we batch plot where the file name saved automatically ?

At the moment I select all sheets to be printed in pdf and Revit will prompt me for a file name for each.

Is there a way so that they can all be done say drawing number would be the default file name...so that you can walk away while all of them are being converted to pdf

[beegee]

Point to the folder where you want to save the pdfs, either accept the default project name or give the output a name ie " Project 1 - "; select the sheets to be printed.

Say you have a drawing set numbered A01 to A10.
Revit will print 10 sheets identified as:-

Project 1 - Drawing Sheet - A01 - Sheet Name.pdf

to

Project 1 - Drawing Sheet - A10 - Sheet Name.pdf

[Jit]

thanks Beegee

[Gadget Man]

...How to print the multi page document from a single sheet, like the drawing list or some other schedule ?...
I think, that the question really was how to print a schedule, that is several pages long?

For instance, I print my drawing list on the first page of CD (or Working Drawings - depending where you are) package, using just my strandard title block (with frame, title, etc.), with the schedule being its only content (in place of a drawing).

For, say, thirty to fifty (max) pages (drawing sheets) this is fine - just make the schedule text a notch smaller and it will fit on ONE page. But what if your schedule is for a package of, say, hundred and twenty pages? Your schedule needs to be split...! While you can split the schedule on ONE page (making it in several parts or "columns"), I haven't tried to split it over several pages (still maintaining its integrity). And this is (I think) the real question here...! - And I don't know the answer... :???:

As to having several Title Blocks on ONE sheet - I am puzzled too... - I wasn't able to achieve it when I tried to do it on purpose (not that I would ever need it in Revit...). Unless there is one of them as per normal, and an identical looking family, but coded as a general annotation (and placed as such) as a second one.

[nole]

Hi Everyone!
Here is how I solved problem printing multiple page schedule (room schedule of a building):
In a room tag I created parameter called Floor, then created 3 schedules with this parameter (one for each floor), then filtered those schedules regarding Floor parameter and received different schedules (every of them where one page long) for each floor. Finally I put those schedules on separate sheets and made a print.

[beegee]

Jerry,
There are a couple of ways:-

1. As Nole mentions in the post above, you can use a parameter to filter the schedule into the parts that fit a sheet.

2. You can split a schedule and move the split parts you don't want off the sheet. Duplicate the schedule, and on the next sheet, repeat that process. Continue in that vein with subsequent sheets.



>>For, say, thirty to fifty (max) pages (drawing sheets) this is fine - just make the schedule text a notch smaller and it will fit on ONE page. But what if your schedule is for a package of, say, hundred and twenty pages? Your schedule needs to be split...! While you can split the schedule on ONE page (making it in several parts or "columns"), I haven't tried to split it over several pages (still maintaining its integrity). And this is (I think) the real question here...! - And I don't know the answer... :???:
>>>.

[Gadget Man]

Thank you both for your tips.

Both of them are just work-arounds - pity, that you have to look for the work-arounds, rather than the program handling that simple task itself (splitting of the schedules - even into separate ones).

BeeGee's way is a little less messy, so I would be inclined to use that one, when I need it - anyway, both are easy enough.

Thanks again, and I hope it also answered the original question by juha-pekka.rindell....

[juha-pekka.rindell]

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..You can split a schedule and move the split parts you don't want off the sheet. Duplicate the schedule, and on the next sheet, repeat that process. Continue in that vein with subsequent sheets.

I have been away for a while but here are couple of comments.

Thanks for everyone answering ! Specially for Jerry getting it right to the point. And for BeeGee having the appropriate work around quoted above. Still, I am a little bit disappointed Revit don't have any more sophisticated way to handle this kind of situation. If there were a 20-30 pages long schedule, I would seriously consider to export it to the excel format, which in turn would be a pity to do because of losing the coordination so essential with Revit.


The pic shows my original intention. Putting several title blocks into single sheet won't be a problem with the "View/new/place titleblock". Splitting the list is OK. Only the printing was unsuccessful.

I would compare my task to the Excel sheet. In Excel the drawing list is done in one single sheet and it is printed as pdf as a one document usually consisting of 5-7 pages in A4 size.

With the help of Revit I was trying to accomplish the Drawing list with a similar kind of logic.

Apparently I have to create as many sheets as there will be pages in the document and bind them together with the batch plot option. I hope I never have to create those long schedules ....unless some kind of API and Excel and Revit 8 or 9 will help me ?

[Duncan Lithgow]

You can actually do exactly what you write there. You create one PDF as high as all the pages will be stacked on top of each other. Then using Adobe Reader you split that PDF into separate pages using the poster print function.

[MikeJarosz]

This is a really old post that came back to life in recent days. One thing that caught my eye was that Juha-Pekka was printing to A4 size. That's LETTER size in the US, and it explains why he needed multiple sheets. This tells me he (she? forgive my ignorance of Finnish) is looking to create a report. Under those circumstances I would export to Excel and use all the page setup features of XL, which are better suited to multiple page reports than drawing-oriented Revit.

[Duncan Lithgow]

He was trying to make a long Sheet List work. That's a real no-brainer in Revit - why doesn't multi-page schedules just work? All that work and it still goes to Excel just so we can print it as one document with minimal fuss ... :cry:

Anyways, I'm looking forward to implementing my solution mentioned above.