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larywanzeler

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Hello all,

My company is moving to Revit and I am responsible to create the template.

Im trying to set up a Sheet list in Revit just like (or at least similar) the one we have in AutoCAD (see image attached).

The idea is to fill out the schedule with circles or dots based on what phase/date the sheet was issued for. Aside from the field "issued for" I have everything working just great. When it comes to the "Issued for" part, I dont know where to start. My guess is that it will be a yes/no parameter + formula to change the caracthers to circles or dots, but how can I related the phases to the sheets names? Please keep in mind that the phases name can change in each project.

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Revit is NOT AutoCAD and trying to make Revit look and act like AutoCAD is fruitless.  Explain to your office that there will be some changes in process that you will have to make and look for compromises that will work.  

Revit is far too good of a tool to try and dummy it down to CAD.

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Im very aware of that. I wish it was that simple, to just explain something and everyone would just accept it. Everyone here is aware it wont look the same, but the information needs to be conveyed somehow, do you have any suggestions of what to do to convey that? I have found other threads trying to figure out this issue, but I couldnt find a good answer yet. Although Im aware that Revit is a lot better than AutoCAD, Im not blind about it and I know that there are areas for improvement. I have seen other complaints about the lack of relation between sheets and revision phases. Im just trying to find someone who may have figure out something.

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Because the Revit file is dynamic, we archive our project after each phase and the PDF's are the record for those phases.  Views are often throw away or reused in the next phase.  We organize our sheets by phase by assigning a project 'status' (SD/DD/CD) to the sheet (added project parameter).   We use a seperate sheet index for each phase.

Remember, schedules in Revit are basically one line per record with every column being a seperate parameter in that record.   Your schedule requires multiple parameters Demolition/Permit/Construction.... all would need to be assigned to sheets as a text field and might be hard to maintain.   You can then manually enter the ASCII code for the proper character to give you the empty or solid dot.   Do you really want to do this????   I think seperate schedule for each project phase is so much easier.

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