Sheet Number - Order/Sort Issue

[Anonymous]

Hello there,

I am experiencing something really odd, the sheet order is completely random while printing. And I need to renumber by copying an other of the list, past and change manualy. Note that I have about 700 sheet to renumber...

Renumber all with dynamo, with a prefix, reverse back do not do the tricks - Print organized schedule from with PyRevit do not do the tricks either.

I am out of option.

Background - I have used Dyn to create the dummy sheet but my problem is only happening on 2 file out of the 7 I have to issue.

Thank you for your help

list messed up

[Mark.Ackerley]

Hey,

If you could post a couple of files that would be really useful... Including the dyn if that is relevant?

Thanks,

Mark

[TripleM-Dev.net]

Hi,

Not clear what you mean, could you elaborate on the workflow. What's the startpoint and the expected result?

What do you need to re-number, the prints (pdf's) created? based on completion order...

Some sheets could take longer to complete by the PDF printer (revit prints them in order) and so the completion time can be off and not suited to be used for renumber in order...

Use a PDF printer that actually can print with the name given, and add any prefix etc before printing.

No renaming etc needed after printing,,,, look into PDFX-change(lite) used it for years.

But maybe I misinterpreted you're post.

- Michel

[Anonymous]

Hi guys, thank you for your reply, I will try to share a empty file when I can.

The problem is not about workflow but about software - The field Number in Sheets, do not read one sheet to another in the same way. Its like there would be; number and text to be sorted together. This do not make sens because this field is supposed to be "text"

The only fixe I found is to copy a number from one sheet, past to the other and rename with the correct number. This redirect the sheet in the rigth pos in the list.

But when I create a new sheet - here again the new sheet is located randomly in the list.

I will let you know if I find anything

Many thanks

[TripleM-Dev.net]

Hi,

You have a issue with a schedule for sheets?, Did you specify a field or more to sort on in the schedule otherwise the result is "random" indeed.

Schedule Sorting

Also if you create a new Sheet revit will apply a follow number based on the last number created or renamed.

So if the last sheet created has the number "A101" the next new sheet is "A102" 

If you now rename "A101" to "A105" the next number revit applies is "A106" it does this with a lot of fields.

- Michel

[Anonymous]

Hi Michael, 

I will try to empty the file sometime in the future to share. 

Yes the sheets are sorted by “sheet number” - furthermore, not only there are in the wrong order in the project browser but also in the schedule (using the sheet number to sort), and in the print’s Set which usually sort by numbers by default.

As I said previously, I created all the sheet with Dynamo - list of number and name generated from excel. Only two out of the 7 file have issues. When I create a new sheet it always contain a specific ID that relate to the deliverable requirement - but the sheet is not being placed in the right place.

Thank you for your reply nevertheless.

Guillaume.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

So -

Solution is not one - Autodesk identified that there is an empty number/string in the field.

The only way to cure is to rename/remember with keyboard.

Issue can come from bad Dynamo node or PyRevit.

Thank you for any help.

Cheers

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

That is from a pyRevit script.  They provide a way to fix it if you read the warning.

[Anonymous]

Thanks ToanDN,

That must be it - interesting that they have not added a remove invisible character after the print process.

I removed the plugging and renamed everything but the problem subsist when I create a new view - Will proceed with your solution - thanks a lot. 

Best!