BIM Inconsistent standards
The whole drawing-issue cycle inside Revit
A custom toolbar handles revisions, plotting and transmission through the team's own issue process.
- Client context
- BIM & drafting team
- Built with
- Revit, C#
What changed
The team can revise, plot and prepare a drawing set for transmission through one routine inside Revit. Saved selections, naming rules and issue details no longer depend on a different manual sequence for each user.
The problem
This team's Revit issues were handled a little differently depending on who was doing them. Revisions, plotting and preparing sheets for a CDE such as ACC or Aconex relied on several separate steps. The individual functions existed in pieces, but the team did not have one issue process matched to its standards. That left sheet selection, file naming and issue details to be handled manually each time.
What I built
I built a custom toolbar around the team’s issue cycle. It rolls revisions up or down across selected sheets, using an automatic or fixed value. Batch plotting sends a saved set to PDF or DWG and names the files from the sheet data. The transmit function assembles the issue in a folder ready for the CDE, or uploads it to ACC where the team has access.
I have built variations of this tool for several teams, each one matched to its own issue process.