This is an addin for Autodesk Revit. The code is a modified version of the sample exporter by Autodesk.
When you want to print a single sheet from Revit all is well and good. You get to pick the file name you like. However, if you want to print an entire drawing set you are out of luck. Revit decides what the sheet names are and all you get todo is make up a prefix.
I don't like having to rename a bunch of files, especially when Revit has all of the data and could easliy name the files appropriately.
There are built-in parameters in Revit like sheet_name and sheet_number but for us we need an additional parameter
sequence_number (Since we collaborate with others there are many versions of this parameter). Basically the sequence
parameter is used to prefix the file names so that regardless of name the sheets will appear in the correct order in the
file system. For example if we have 4 sheets C1 - Cover Sheet, A1 - Floor Plan, A2 - Elevations, LS1 - Life Safety Plan the file
system would order them like:
- A1 - Floor Plan
- A2 - Elevations
- C1 - Cover Sheet
- LS1 - Life Safety Plan
When we really want them in this order:
- C1 - Cover Sheet
- LS1 - Life Safety Plan
- A1 - Floor Plan
- A2 - Elevations
We use the sequence to prefix all sheets like this:
- 0000-C1 - Cover Sheet
- 0010-LS1 - Life Safety Plan
- 0020-A1 - Floor Plan
- 0040-A2 - Elevations
The page size should be automatically get detected by the boundaries of your titleblock.