Save Time Placing Views on Sheets in Autodesk Revit with this FREE Sheet Generator

[@ErikFrits]

💪EF-Tools is back! Let me know what I should add next to EF-Tools👇

[@tay.0]

Is there a way to fetch paths for External resources (CAD + Keynotes) placed on ACC ? I tried EF's DWG:OpenReload and it fails as it is likely requiring a dive into Autodesk's Forge API, this issue is on my radar and I am planning to dive into it sometime in the holidays as this seems to be a limitation for my current workflow.

[@marcuswagner8987]

nice video btw

[@myriamschneiderman1186]

Very good, and really nice UXI/UI. thanks

[@ErikFrits]

Thanks, enjoy the tool!

[@suhaibrizik5941]

it looks really amazing and easy and fast to use ... but still have to manually click on adding new sheet and rename it or renumber it one by one. i hope for future update to be able to import the sheets from an excel file with already prepared names and numbers that would be really useful too

[@ErikFrits]

At the moment it only creates sheets if you added views on the 'SheetCard'. How do you want it to work with Excel? Would you want to define all view names in the Excel manually? I feel like it might be tricky, since you would need to be very precise as any typo would result in a wrong view name. I think It's quicker to drag views with my form than write them in Excel. Also keep in mind that in Revit you can have identical view name for different ViewTypes. So you can have: AreaPlan: 'Level_10' FloorPlan: 'Level_10' CeilingPlan: 'Level_10' .... It's rare, but might cause some confusion sometimes.

[@suhaibrizik5941]

To be able to add sheets cards from excel schedule with import button. And the names and numbers of the sheets cards to be imported from that excel schedule

[@suhaibrizik5941]

Oh no i didnt mean of adding the views by excel sheet I only meant about an excel sheet for the sheet names and numbers since all projects already have it And to use it for creating the sheet cards I still will add the views to the created sheets cards manually So its not fully automated but a small nice update since adding views in the excel would be a pain to make it work I tried to create a similar example of this script in dynamo but its goal not to add already made views to sheets Its actually will create the sheets and their views

[@ErikFrits]

aah got it now. I thought you wanted to add SheetNumber, SheetName, and then all view names that goes on them inside the Excel. It sounded like a lot of pain to me as well. Now it actually makes a lot of sense how you want to create a lot of SheetCards with the Excel. Right now filling all SheetNames and Numbers does fill a bit boring. That might solve the issue. I will make a note of this for future update of the tool. Looking forward to more feedback about this tool.

[@karthik-l]

Eric good tool as always. One suggestion to improve this further is add a title block nested family to get placement locations it would be upto user to place these nested families for them to align to those locations which would solve alignment logic.

[@ErikFrits]

Do you mean like create a rectangle that would represent the title block and then move views around on it inside the form?

[@marcuswagner8987]

working for Revit 2025?

[@ErikFrits]

Yes, I will release a tutorial today on pyRevit 2025 because you need a WIP version. Also keep in mind that Revit 2025 has a bug for installing additional extensions. But if you install EF-Tools in any previous Revit versions, it will also show up in Revit 2025.