Drawing X of Y count?

[ron.sanpedro]

We have a client who demands that every sheet in the set have Drawing X of Y listed. I have not yet verified that they require it on every print, but I suspect they do. So my hope is that there is a way to do this in Revit! I really don't look forward to telling someone they have to spend 5 or 6 hours at every print deadline going thru and doing this manually. I hate it when clients are stuck in 1972 and can't get out.
They also want the DWG name on the title block, which I know I can do with a quick mod of the title block in acad, but it sure would be nice to have that "just happen" too.

Crossed fingers for a less painful solution.

Thanks,
Gordon

[GuyR]

every sheet in the set have Drawing X of Y listed.

Shared parameter (call it what you want say NumSheets). Add it to the project parameters for project information and add it to the titleblock. Then all you have to do is go into project parameters and set the number of sheets. All sheets will update automatically. You could semi-automate this by writing an API command to correctly calculate the number to avoid users getting it wrong.

HTH,

GUy

[Justin Marchiel]

I think what he wants is the sheet to say 1 or 25. what you show will give you the 25 part, but how do you get it to do the 1 part.

I dont see any automatic way of doing this. i think you have to manually add the 1 to each sheet.

Justin

[ron.sanpedro]

I think what he wants is the sheet to say 1 or 25. what you show will give you the 25 part, but how do you get it to do the 1 part.

I dont see any automatic way of doing this. i think you have to manually add the 1 to each sheet.

Justin

I am leaning towards exporting a schedule to Excel, and then using the API to read the sheet number and count from the spread sheet and modify the appropriate parameters.
Now I just need to test it, and have a fall back in case it doesn't work.

Thanks!
Gordon

[aaronrumple]

I think what he wants is the sheet to say 1 or 25. what you show will give you the 25 part, but how do you get it to do the 1 part.

I dont see any automatic way of doing this. i think you have to manually add the 1 to each sheet.

Justin
Yep - you have to type in the 1,2,3,4...

However this is reasonably quick (well - at least as quick as AutoCAD) by creating a schedule with the X of parameter and just going down the list 1, 2, 3....

Just remember the 25 is a project parameter (making it a type parameter). The 1 is a titleblock parameter (making it an instance paramter.)

[The Sweg]

We name the sheets with a number (since we have to name them anyway, it's not any extra work).
and we use a project parameter to type in the total number of sheets.

HTH

[lorne.bourdo.152516]

So why isn't this possible? It is automatic in ArchiCAD isn't it? We also can set it up in AutoCAD. It just looks at how many sheets are created in the project browser and automatically numbers them. If you delete one, then the number changes accordingly. This isn't possible in Revit?

[dhurtubise]

Simple, it's the worst numbering convention you can think of. :-)

[Dimitri Harvalias]

Simple, it's the worst numbering convention you can think of. :-)

I love telling the client that sort of thing :lol:

Gordon, I feel your pain. Fire the architect and insist he dump Revit because the title block is all wrong!
How about a simple compromise. Create a drawing list that totals the sheet and put it on the cover page. At least they'll know how many sheets there should be in the set.

[dhurtubise]

I agree with Dimitri, dont get me wrong. But it's such a bad practice that you can tell your client why( and tie that to a waste of time) and they usually change they're mind pretty quickly.
We need to educate our client, not only about BIM but aboutthe whole process.

[andrew.139822]

Shared parameter (call it what you want say NumSheets). Add it to the project parameters for project information and add it to the titleblock. Then all you have to do is go into project parameters and set the number of sheets. All sheets will update automatically. You could semi-automate this by writing an API command to correctly calculate the number to avoid users getting it wrong.

HTH,

GUy

I'm trying to do this too, but having some difficulty. I create two shared parameters called Sheet Order and Sheet Total. Sheet Order is an instance parameter, Sheet Total is a type parameter. I set the Sheet Total in the project information. I edited my titleblock family to include a label with these parameters. When I reload the family into my project, however, nothing shows up for those labels?! When I highlight the titleblock, a question mark appears for those labels. What's going on? What am I missing?

Thanks,

Andrew

[BMcCallum]

Did you add the shared parameters to the project, too? They don't come with the family. They need to be added manually.

[GuyR]

Andrew,

See the attached project.
1.. Shared Parameters added to the titleblock.
2.. Shared parameter (Sheet X) added to the drawing sheets category of the project parameters as an instance parameter.
3.. Shared parameter (total sheets) added to the project information category of the project parameters as an instance parameters.

To alter sheet numbers go to the properties of each view. For the total sheets, edit the value in the project information properties.

HTH,

Guy