RTV Drawing Manager – Interface Overview standard

Drawing Manager was where things all began as the very first Revit Plug-in developed by RTV Tools and still remains to be our flagship application in the RTV Tools suite intended to automate BIM and enhance the productivity of all Autodesk® Revit® users worldwide. What is RTV Drawing Manager? Drawing Manager Defined RTV Drawing Manager for Autodesk® Revit®, automates the process of creating drawing sheets, document transmittals (including Autodesk® Revit® drawing sheets and external files), PDFs, DWG, DWF, DWFx, DXF and IFC files (including automatic project file naming), display parameters and custom metadata parameters, drawing revision clouds and revision notes in Autodesk® Revit®. RTV Drawing Manager is ideal for Architects, Interiors Designers, Engineers, Landscape Architects and Visualization Artists using Autodesk® ...

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RTV Drawing Manager Project Database Creation standard

In order to create a Drawing Manager SQL project database for your current Revit Project you will need to make sure you have saved your current Revit Project with the required file name first as Drawing Manager will name the SQL database to match your Revit Project file name. If you have not saved your Revit project before launching Drawing Manager you will receive the following dialog display message. Once your Revit Project has been saved then launch RTV Tools Drawing Manager from the RTV Tools ribbon tab by clicking the Drawing Manager button. When you launch Drawing manager for the very first time when working with either an existing or newly created Revit Project, it will then create the ...

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RTV Drawing Manager Project Setup standard

When you start using Drawing Manager for the first time and don’t already have a specific company Drawing Manager Template to be using you will need to go through and define some Drawing Manager Settings initially so that once configured you can generate a Drawing Manager template from them to be used in future. The resulting Drawing Manager template is stored within the SQL server along with all your Drawing Manager Project databases. Typical setups required by Drawing Manager to be included with a Company Specific template are controlled via the Project Configuration Dialog box and would include; Project Information setup Numbering Format Setup Parameter Mapping Setup Titleblock Setup Various List setups

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RTV Drawing Manager Project Information Setup standard

Within Drawing Manager you can setup the Project Information details to be synchronized with your Revit Project in the same way that you would do natively within Revit. If you have already entered the Project Information details directly within Revit itself it can be imported into your Drawing Manager database when you Import Revit Sheets that are Setup in your project by selecting Yes on the dialog box shown below. Alternatively you would enter the Project information directly within Drawing Manager first when starting a new Revit Project (recommended) which will in turn synchronize back to your Revit Project. To enter the Project Information directly to Drawing Manager either click the Edit option from the Project drop down button on ...

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RTV Drawing Manager Number Format Setup standard

Configuring the Drawing Number setup and formatting is something you will need to do up front prior to synchronizing with your project as this is what will be used in conjunction with the drawing number on your Sheet Titleblocks. If importing existing sheets from your Revit Project into Drawing Manager then again you will need to first of all configure the Drawing number formatting to match the format in your Revit project in order for the Drawing Number to display correctly when imported into Drawing Manager. With Drawing Manager you can effectively cater for virtually any number sequence or format required no matter how complex it may be for larger projects by utilizing any or all of the available Prefix ...

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RTV Drawing Manager Parameter Mapping Setup standard

The Parameters tab of the Config dialog box provides the list of parameters used by the Drawing Manager Project database when synchronizing with your Revit Project and Revit Titleblock families. Ideally the Drawing Manager parameters would be added to your company specific Shared Parameter file, and then be included in both your company specific Revit Template file and Titleblock families. The default RTV Shared Parameter file can be found in the following default location; C:\Program Files\RTV Tools\Drawing Manager 2016\RTV Shared Parameters File.txt The top section of the Parameters Tab determines the Parameter Method to be used Pre-defined Parameters: selecting this option will automatically map the required Drawing manager Parameters to the corresponding default Revit parameters and will create the Project ...

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RTV Drawing Manager Title Block Setup standard

When using Drawing Manager in conjunction with Revit you can setup as many Titleblocks as you like within Drawing Manager and configure their setup accordingly to be assigned when you start adding Sheets within the Drawing Manager database. Once you Synchronize back to Revit then your project is updated with the sheets and Titleblocks generated from Drawing Manager. For this reason it is recommended that your Company Revit Template should ideally not contain any ‘sheets’ which will then end up getting ‘imported’ into Drawing Manager. Sheets should be created primarily in Drawing Manager using Defined Titleblocks also from within Drawing Manager and then pushed back into your Revit project when synchronized. To define your Titleblock setup with Drawing manager go ...

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RTV Drawing Manager Lists Setup standard

Drawing Manager contains a number of predefined lists for various functions that you can utilize, add to and customize as required from the Project Configuration dialog box. Examples of such lists include: Issue Stamps Revision Stamps Project Status External Document Types Issue Distribution List Issue format Issue Media Transmittal Method Task Templates Document Status User Meta Data The purpose of using such lists within Drawing Manager is again to standardise on documentation to provide consistency and efficiency throughout the company amongst all users.

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RTV Drawing Manager Issue Stamps standard

The intention behind using Issue Stamps is to ‘Stamp’ your drawing sheets electronically with the chosen stamp in the same way that many companies would do manually by stamping printed hard copies of drawings as they are issued out of the office. Utilising the Issue Stamps within Drawing Manager and the corresponding parameter in your Revit Titleblock family means you can do away with the old manual stamps and the time involved to manually stamp each printed hard copy of drawings. You can modify the Issue Stamp list as required by adding additional stamps or deleting any unwanted stamps from the list. To configure your Issue stamp list go to The Project Settings tab of the Ribbon > click Configuration ...

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RTV Drawing Manager Revision Stamps standard

This tab contains a ‘List’ of all the various Revision Stamps within Drawing manager that you may wish to use with your Revit project which of course like all other lists you can modify as required. You can choose the required revision behaviour in terms of the clouds or revision tags themselves when synchronizing back to Revit as these simply mimic the options available with Revit by default. In order for Drawing manager to synchronize with your Revision Tag family in your project you can either use the RTV family provided free or map the parameter names from your own Revision Tag family into Drawing Manager instead (remember these are case sensitive). To configure your Revision stamp list go to ...

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