Sheet Organization Revit Mep

The basic number and order of our sheets are m100 ep100 el100 ed100 etc.

Sheet organization revit mep. An easy way to organise this a bit better is to group the sheets by their prefix sheet series number. These categories are working views sheet views and bim coordination views. In this write up i will explain how i use the project browser to organize views into three main categories. On projects and in my templates i have the different categories where views are organized.

What you ll want to do is check out the batch plot utility in the subscription center. Also this mostly applies to mep but could apply to other trades as well. Yes but you can change the title on sheet property. Sheet phasing v sheet organization v printing per phasing i have a 4 floor 5 phased job with 3 sectors per floor setup in revit 2011.

If we open our browser organization dialog box on the sheets tab find sheet prefix and select edit. As you enter sheet order numbers revit re sorts the list to place the rows in order. Sheet organization sheet category 00 general none plotting sheets 01 schematic design sd sheets not being reused for later submittals 02 construction documents most everything will be here. The job is going to be constructed vertical and horizontal as it is a expansion and reno.

Unfortunately revit itself will not plot according to the sheet list. Maybe its a mep thing. You should see it quite often even revit sample files use this prefix. This will allow you to organize the plotting order the way you want.

Every way that i ve tried t. So i haven t found anything on this but i feel like it s a problem other people must have had. The reason why we add the prefix is to sort the view name. Welcome to the revit forum.

Under the grouping and sorting tab bump up the leading characters number up to 3. Now the problem is that i can t figure out how to set it up so that the order to print is correct. Would the view title on the sheet have the prefix too. Sorting the view name is the easiest way.

First however you must assign a sheet order to each sheet in the list. Many revit users add number prefix in front of the view name.