Reordering drawings in Revit. Drag and Drop

I started my migration to Revit a while ago after many years of “piloting” Archicad . Each program has its strengths and weaknesses, and I won’t be the one to start the hackneyed debate about which one is better… (well, maybe another time). When changing platforms, one of the things I missed most was being able to “drag” the sheets and have them automatically renumbered, something that I had fully internalized in Archicad.

One of the strengths , for me perhaps the most important along with its parametricity, is the existence of an open programming API . Migrating something like reordering lists is as simple as a few dozen lines of code, complex if you don’t have programming knowledge, but elementary with some basic notions. 

My approach to the BIM world came hand in hand with efficiency, and if there’s one thing that underlies the entire BIM methodology, it’s none other than the necessary improvement in productivity, linked, of course, to the digitalization of the sector. Any workflow must be susceptible to improvement… if the followers of ” Lean Construction ” allow me, we must add ” kaizen ” to our daily methodology. 

The utility I’m presenting allows us to reorder plan lists in the simplest way possible by simply dragging the plan numbering into the desired order. I’ve approached this problem from different perspectives: planning tables and subsequent sorting, an Excel table with the list of plans and modifying the numbering using Dynamo… all solutions are ” effective .” However, the solution that, at least in my workflow, is the most ” efficient ” is to create a small plugin within Revit, assign a keyboard shortcut, and call the utility.

I say it’s the most efficient solution for me, for my studio. I know colleagues with a much more structured mind than mine who, as soon as they start a project, know the exact number of plans and the order in which they’re going to be done. In my workflow, there are still aspects that are “personal” decisions, such as: ” In this project, the ‘furnishing’ plan should come before or after the ‘dimensions’ plan…  Everything will happen.” 
Best regards, José Gémez.