Sheet Generator

What it does

Sheet Generator shows every view in your model that isn't on a sheet yet, and every schedule. You build sheet cards — each card is one sheet with a number, a name and the views and schedules you drag onto it — either one at a time or by pasting / loading a sheet list. Click Generate Sheets and the tool creates every sheet with the title block you chose, puts the schedules down the left of the sheet, places the views across the rest, and applies your preferred viewport type for each view type.

Before you start

• Revit 2024–2027. Sheet Generator is a free tool — it works even when AECOtools is unlicensed.
• A project must be open and active.
• At least one title block family must be loaded in the project. Without one the tool stops with "No title blocks found."
• Only views that are not already on a sheet (and aren't view templates) are listed. Views already placed elsewhere won't appear — except legends, which can go on any number of sheets and are always listed.
• Schedules have their own list. A schedule can go on any number of sheets, so every schedule is listed — even one that is already on a sheet. Schedule templates, and the schedules Revit keeps for itself (a title block's revision schedule), aren't listed because Revit won't place them.

Quick start

1. On the Sheets & Views panel, click Sheet Generator.
2. Pick the Title Block at the bottom left.
3. Type a sheet number and name into the first card — or click Add Cards to paste or load a whole sheet list.
4. Drag views from the Views list, and schedules from the Schedules list, onto the grey area of each card. Use Filter to find them quickly.
5. Optional: click Viewport Defaults to choose which viewport type each view type gets.
6. Click Generate Sheets. If any card won't be made as typed you're told first (see Checked before anything is made). A summary lists every sheet created, and every card or view that wasn't, with why.

The window

Left side — views, schedules and title block

Right side — sheet cards

• Each card has a sheet number box, a sheet name box, a grey drop area for views and schedules (it grows as you add more), and a ✕ (Remove card) button.
• The window opens with one blank card showing the placeholders SheetNumber and SheetName. Overtype them.
• The + tile at the end of the grid adds a new card. See Numbering and naming rules for how it fills the new card in.

Drag and drop

Buttons

Pressing Enter in a card's number or name box doesn't generate anything — only clicking Generate Sheets does. Cards are not saved between runs — closing the window discards them.

Checked before anything is made

When you click Generate Sheets the cards are checked first. If any won't be made as typed, a message lists them — These cards won't be made as typed — and asks Generate the other cards anyway? No takes you back to the cards to fix them. It flags:

• a number that is already a sheet in this model (compared ignoring upper and lower case, as Revit does);
• a number that is on more than one card;
• a card that holds views or schedules but has no sheet number;
• characters Revit doesn't allow in a sheet number or name (\ : { } [ ] | ; < > ? ` ~) — those are removed, and the message shows what the number will become;
• a schedule on a card that no longer exists (deleted since the window opened) — it will be left off, and the sheet is still made;
• a schedule that is split into parts (Revit's Split Schedule Table) — every part will be placed, side by side.

Importing a sheet list

Add Cards opens the Add Sheet Cards window. Paste rows into the big text box — one sheet per line, with the sheet number and sheet name separated by a Tab or a comma — then click Add Cards. New cards are added after your existing ones.

Copying two columns straight out of Excel and pasting works, because Excel copies cells as Tab-separated text.

Row format

Blank lines are ignored. A row with a name but no number (it starts with a Tab or a comma) still becomes a card, showing the SheetNumber placeholder so you can fill the number in.

Schedules in the sheet list

Example (⇥ is a Tab): A601⇥Door and Window Schedules⇥Door Schedule;Window Schedule makes card A601 holding both schedules. A range row (A601--A603) puts the schedules on every card it makes.

• Names must match a schedule in the Schedules list exactly, including upper and lower case and spaces.
• A name that matches nothing isn't added. After the cards are added, a message — N schedule names match nothing. — lists each one with its card, so you can drag the right schedule on by hand.
• Only Tab-separated rows can carry schedules. In a comma-separated row everything after the first comma is the sheet name.
• Views can't be named in the list — drag them onto the cards.

Ranges and lists — many sheets from one line

Loading from a file

A header row on the xlsx is skipped automatically when column A and column B read:

Loading a file replaces whatever is in the text box. The rows appear in the box first, so you can check and edit them before clicking Add Cards. Ranges and lists in column A expand as described above.

Numbering and naming rules

• The + tile copies the last card and adds 1 to the number at the end: A09 → A10 (width kept). If the name also ends in a number it goes up too (Level 1 → Level 2); otherwise the name is copied as-is. If the last card still shows the SheetNumber placeholder, the new card is blank as well.
• Blank cards are skipped. A card whose number is empty or still reads SheetNumber is not created — and if it holds views, the summary says how many weren't placed.
• Blank names (or the SheetName placeholder) become Unnamed.
• Numbers already used are never changed into something else. A card whose number is already a sheet in the model — or already taken by an earlier card in the same run — is not made, and is listed under Not made so you can renumber it. Nothing gets a * or a -2 added.
• Characters Revit doesn't allow (\ : { } [ ] | ; < > ? ` ~) are removed from numbers and names, and the summary lists any number that changed — A{101} becomes A101.

Viewport defaults

Viewport Defaults lists every View Type used by views in this project, each with a Viewport Type dropdown.

• Choose the viewport type to apply whenever a view of that type is placed on a sheet.
• (use Revit default) leaves Revit's normal viewport type for that view type.
• Apply saves the choices into the project straight away; Cancel discards your changes.

Results and undo

• One sheet per card, using the chosen title block, with the card's number and name.
• The card's schedules go first, in the order they appear on the card: the first at the top-left of the title block (just inside its edge), each next one below the last. When a stack would run past the bottom of the title block, a new column starts to its right. A split schedule's parts are placed side by side.
• The card's views are placed as viewports, spread evenly inside the title block — or, when the card has schedules, across the part of it to the right of the schedules (with a small margin): 1 view centred, 2 side by side, 3 as two-over-one, 4 as a 2×2 grid, and so on — first row at the top, each row centred. Views are placed in the order they appear on the card. A view that would still overlap the schedules is moved right, clear of them. Treat this as a starting layout; tidy it up afterwards.
• A view Revit won't put on the sheet is left off and listed under Views not placed with the reason — already on another sheet (named), or a view Revit can't place, such as an empty one. The sheet is still created.
• A schedule that can't be placed — deleted since you added it to the card, or refused by Revit — is left off and listed under Schedules not placed with the reason. The sheet is still created.
• Your Viewport Defaults are applied as each view is placed. If a chosen viewport type has since been deleted, Revit's default is used and the summary says so.
• Each card is made on its own: if Revit refuses one part-way, that card is removed again and listed under Not made, and the rest still go.
• When it finishes, a summary shows "Created N sheets.", each sheet with its view count (and schedule count), Total viewports placed, Total schedules placed when there are any, then any Not made, Views not placed, Schedules not placed and Notes.

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Troubleshooting