Revit Sheet Drawing Order

Tips for creating and setting out drawing sheets in revit.

Revit sheet drawing order. Before creating a batch print job be sure that you have set up the printer and prepared the revit project. Example sheet names are t100 a100 a101 s100 s101 e100 e101 add a sort number in front of the sheet name. Drag the g sheets above the a p sheets above the m etc. Hi i m having trouble getting our sheets to sort in the sheet browser in the correct order.

1 t100 5 a100 5 a101 6 s100 6 s101 8 e100 8 e101 now your sheets are in proper print order but you don t want to see the sort number on your sheets. In the project browser under schedules quantities click the sheet list name. You could also name the sheets here if you wish. Draw order options are available when you select details in the view.

This article explains how to start a batch print job in revit to print selected drawings in the order you specify. In revit click add ins tab batch print panel batch print. Numerically determine what the order for each discipline is general 1 architectural 6 etc and then fill in the correct value for the sheet. You can sort the draw order of details in a view.

The following tools become available on the modify. That means every time a set of drawings is plotted the order of the sheets needs to be manually adjusted in the pdf after ex. On the properties palette. Revit should be able to allow the user change order of overlapped views on a sheet with send to back or bring to top options.

Creating multiple sheets adding views to. The following procedure assumes that you have created a sheet list and added multiple sheets to the project. G sheets followed by c s a i p m and e. This functionality is also available in the family editor for detail components in the detail and profile families and for raster images.

If you want the sheets in a sheet list to display in a particular order you can create a custom sheet order parameter and add it to the sheet list properties. To specify element draw order in the drawing area select one or more details. Revit does not currently have a way to plot sheets in any order other than alphabetically and numerically. I ve attached some screen shots and we ve already tried revising the sorting via type properties in several different ways.

Here s the first issue. These are basic functionalities which are in most of the design softwares and it is almost unbelievable that revit doesn t. Groups of sheet numbers are out of order some a200s come first then a000s then its jumping to a600s then back to a100 then a200s. But at the end of the day our main deliverable s are still 2d drawings on sheets of paper.

The batch print dialog displays a list of views sheets and view sheet sets defined in the revit project. I thought i d share this tip as a possible workaround for printing sheets in the order you want. We also added a parameter called sort order name which contains the discipline s name. Now create a drawing index schedule and add the sort order and sort order name fields to it.

Right now they are organized alphabetically but i need them to be organized by discipline i e.