{"id":2126,"date":"2020-09-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camilion.dms3labs.cat\/2020\/09\/10\/duplicate-sheets-with-revit\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T17:01:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T16:01:54","slug":"duplicate-sheets-with-revit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/2020\/09\/10\/duplicate-sheets-with-revit\/","title":{"rendered":"Duplicate sheets with Revit\u00ae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So probably you have tried to right-click on a sheet in your project browser and selected <code>Duplicate View<\/code>, only to find bitter disappointment in the fact that the three duplicate buttons are grayed out. \ud83d\ude41<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/revit\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revit\u00ae<\/a> unfortunately, doesn&rsquo;t have a default tool for sheet duplication.<\/p>\n<p>Well, fear no more. At <a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\">Camilion<\/a> we&rsquo;ve developed a plugin that can duplicate  1 or 100 sheets in a couple of clicks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"en_sheeets_01.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_sheeets_01.gif\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"toc\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#duplicating-sheets-in-revit\">Duplicating sheets in Revit\u00ae<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#setup-placement-options\">Setup placement options<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#setup-view-duplication-options\">Setup view duplication options<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#custom-sheet-naming\">Custom sheet naming<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#conclusion\">Conclusion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h3 id=\"duplicating-sheets-in-revit\">Duplicating sheets in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/revit\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revit\u00ae<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>By default, there&rsquo;s no way of duplicating a sheet in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/revit\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revit\u00ae<\/a>, only grayed out buttons and bitter disappointment await for those who try (see image below).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"en_sheeets_01.png\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_sheeets_01.png\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>For this reason, at Camilion we&rsquo;ve developed <a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/Sheeets\/\">Sheeets<\/a>, a sheet duplicator for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/revit\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revit\u00ae<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/Sheeets\/\">Sheeets<\/a> allows you to duplicate a sheet 1 or 100 times and let&rsquo;s you choose several duplication options for <code>Legends<\/code>, <code>Schedules<\/code> and other <code>Views<\/code> as well as customization of <code>Sheet Names<\/code> and <code>Sheet Numbers<\/code> via a <code>csv<\/code> template file.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"setup-placement-options\">Setup placement options<\/h4>\n<p>Open the sheet you wish to duplicate and fire-up <a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/Sheeets\/\">Sheeets<\/a>.<br \/>\nIn the <code>Sheet to Copy<\/code> option, choose the sheet you wish to use as a template for the creation of your new sheets. Next, enter the <code>Number<\/code> of copies to be created. In our example we&rsquo;ll create 4 sheets.<\/p>\n<p>In the <code>Viewport placement options<\/code>, you can choose how to place your views from 3 possible options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>Place same<\/code>: Places the <em>existing view<\/em> on the new sheets.<\/li>\n<li><code>Place duplicate<\/code>: places a <em>duplicate of the view<\/em> in the new sheets.<\/li>\n<li><code>Don't place<\/code>: Doesn&rsquo;t place that type of views in the sheets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For our example, we want the <code>Views<\/code> to be set to <code>Place duplicate<\/code>, the Legends to be set to <code>Place same<\/code> and we don&rsquo;t want to place any <code>Schedules<\/code>, so we select the <code>Don't place<\/code> radio-button.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"setup-view-duplication-options\">Setup view duplication options<\/h4>\n<p>Next, We set the Duplication option for views.<br \/>\nThis section controls which duplication option will be used on the views.  The three options are the same that you find when you right-click on a view in your project browser and select <code>Duplicate view<\/code>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>Duplicate<\/code>: creates a copy of the view that only includes the building elements.<\/li>\n<li><code>Duplicate with detail<\/code>: creates a copy of the view and includes all annotation and detail elements (such as tags).<\/li>\n<li><code>Duplicate as dependent<\/code>: creates a copy of the view and links it to the original (parent) view.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For our example we&rsquo;ll choose <code>Duplicate with detail<\/code>, since we want to preserve the detail elements in the views.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"en_sheeets_02.png\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_sheeets_02.png\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"custom-sheet-naming\">Custom sheet naming<\/h3>\n<p>The last step to configure is the custom sheet naming.<br \/>\nClick on the <code>Open template<\/code> button and a <code>csv<\/code> template file will open automatically in your default <code>csv<\/code> editor (ours is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LibreOffice\u00ae<\/a>).<br \/>\nHere, we fill the columns respectively with the Number and Name of each sheet. In our example, the new sheets will start with the Sheet Number <code>B101<\/code> and the Sheet Names with the name <code>New Plan 01<\/code>.<br \/>\nWhen done, press <strong>save<\/strong> and close the file before proceeding.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"en_sheeets_03.png\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_sheeets_03.png\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>To finish, click on <code>OK<\/code> in the Info-box and then <code>OK<\/code> again in the main Dialog-box.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/Sheeets\/\">Sheeets<\/a> now will start duplicating your sheets. Great job!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"en_sheeets_04.png\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_sheeets_04.png\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"conclusion\">Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/Sheeets\/\">Sheeets<\/a> plugin is a fast and easy way to duplicate sheets and the views placed in these sheets.<br \/>\nSeveral duplication options as well as totally custom naming give this app the flexibility you need to get the work done in a fraction of the time you would of required.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/Sheeets\/\">Try it now for free!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So probably you have tried to right-click on a sheet in your project browser and selected <code>Duplicate View<\/code>, only to find bitter disappointment in the fact that the three duplicate buttons are grayed out. \ud83d\ude41<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/revit\/overview\">Revit\u00ae<\/a> unfortunately, doesn&rsquo;t have a default tool for sheet duplication.<\/p>\n<p>Well, fear no more. At <a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\">Camilion<\/a> we&rsquo;ve developed a plugin that can duplicate  1 or 100 sheets in a couple of clicks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"en_sheeets_01.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/blog\/2020-revit-duplicate-sheets\/en_sheeets_01.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192,153,147],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howto-es","category-revit-es","category-sheeets-es"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}