Revit file name from Plotting??

[robert_taylor]

Just a question for you API experts. My company uses PDF995 to plot out of revit. When I plot a list of sheets, the PDF file name is the project name, Drawing Sheet, plus the sheet #, and the sheet name. Its one long file name.

Is it possible to edit or change how revit does this?

Ex: I'd like it the PDF file name to just be the sheet # only.

Thanks for your input.

[JH75]

I believe it is not. I am not sure if it is thruogh the API though .
What I did was downloading a free program that can Rename your pdf files in a batch.
I am not at my work computer now but I think the name of the program is Bulk rename "something".
Cheers
j

[r.howarth]

I recently made a plotting revit tool using PDF995.

It was basically a customized plot screen for our company, users hit plot, selected if they wanted pdf or paper, selected sheets, and size and hit plot and away it went.

From there, it :
- Edits the pdf995.ini file to tell it to print all pdfs to a certain directory (say C:\RevitPlots\ which i clear out everytime a plot is done)
- wait for it to be saved by pdf995
- when its done, it will then look for all pdfs in that folder, and match their name with sheets in the revit file
- it then renames them according to our naming standard (customizable in the plot screen), so say SheetNumber[Revision], by pulling out the parameters of the sheet
- We also set some hidden properties based on our document management system
- then it moves the pdf from there into the job directory (getting the project number from the project parameters) and displays this directory

What you could do, is isntead of all the stuff we did (which was to fit in with our systems), you could simply keep printing to pdf995, but always plot to C:\RevitPlots\ and then have a macro which you run after the plot is done, which finds all revitplots that match sheets in your revit file, and renames them accordingly. Could even move them if you have a location for each project where pdfs are stored.

hope this helps

[tomnewsom]

I use this renamer:

http://www.1-4a.com/rename/download.htm

which has a rather crusty interface, but is quick and powerful.

[david.kingham]

I use Bulk Rename Utility, greatest little program ever
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

[JH75]

I second David. I use the same.
Cheers
J