topic Re: Drawing Issue / Document Transmittal Sheet in Project data & BIM

Drawing Issue / Document Transmittal Sheet

Sam Parish — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 12:21:26 GMT

I have been trying to find a way to create an automated drawing issue sheet in ArchiCAD 20.

I have started to get my head around the issue history schedule but I am struggling to find a way to translate the capabilities of this into a reliable automatic schedule.

I have attached an image of what I am trying to achieve, I have previously used this type of issue register in Excel, filled in manually, but thought ArchiCAD might be able to automate it resulting in less errors.

My original thought was to combine a layout index (to ensure all of the issued layouts are included) with the issue history index (to provide revID, Issue Date, Issuer Initials etc.) on a layout with the grid and logos as elements of the master layout.

I can't figure out how to get the information from the issue history index to display horizontally or retain the previously issued revID so that it builds up as new issues are created.

Any ideas or direction of someone had looked at this previously would be appreciated.

Re: Drawing Issue / Document Transmittal Sheet

JamesLEDA2 — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:26:38 GMT

did you ever get anywhere with this? we are starting to look into this also, seems silly to manually do the work when ArchiCAD automates so much of the information already!

Re: Drawing Issue / Document Transmittal Sheet

Sam Parish — Mon, 13 May 2019 02:11:17 GMT

Hi,

Sort of, I ended up making an excel spreadsheet based on the document transmittal system I found in the Skewed S21 template http://www.skewed.com.au/blog/skewed-s21-bim-template-archicad-21. It uses ArchiCAD to generate some Issue and revision text documents, these can then be imported into excel and will automate the filling in of the issue sheet as long as the correct date and issue are input into the box at the top.

It took a bit of fiddling around with the project indexes to get the right stuff exporting but if you follow the guide in the Skewed template it's fairly simple.

I can't seem to attach the excel spreadsheet but may be able to email you if it would help. Setting up the formulas so that it would auto fill from the info provided through archiCAD took a bit of time and may have some issues but it seems to work most of the time for us.

Re: Drawing Issue / Document Transmittal Sheet

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 09:22:39 GMT

Hi Sam,

Trying to struggle with the same problem here - how to get the issue sheet to display like our old excel versions. So far i've been looking at pivot tables in Excel but did you find a more elegant way in the end?

Re: Drawing Issue / Document Transmittal Sheet

Sam Parish — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 21:12:33 GMT

Hi Glazz,

It's not a particularly elegant solution but I did manage to get it to work following the guide posted above. It does require creating various schedules and loading them into Excel.

We recently found out that Central Innovation who distribute ArchiCAD in NZ are including a drawing issue tool as part of their addons shortly so I have given up on my slightly lackluster implementation. It's a GDL object which works on the same principle of creating specific schedules but works in archicad so we don't have to involve excel at all.

Re: Drawing Issue / Document Transmittal Sheet

gmorgan — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:12:01 GMT

We have this now on myci for AUS and NZ Select customers in the essential / Select Library.

Re: Drawing Issue / Document Transmittal Sheet

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 22:52:06 GMT

Hi Gareth. I can't find this object in the CI Essential library ( We have AUS select). Is it a separate download from My CI?

Re: Drawing Issue / Document Transmittal Sheet

Sam Parish — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 04:36:08 GMT

Thanks Gareth,

I haven't tried it yet but am downloading the library to give it a go. I watched the presentation on it a couple of months ago and it seemed to tick all the boxes.

Also thanks for adding a date to the title, I was downloading it regularly after the presentation to see if it had been updated and eventually gave up but the date makes it easy to keep a record of which version I have installed

Re: Drawing Issue / Document Transmittal Sheet

james1 — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 02:41:26 GMT

Hi Gareth. Where do I find the document transmittal object on the CI Essential Library? cant seem to find it.....

Re: Drawing Issue / Document Transmittal Sheet

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 04:52:25 GMT

Hi there,

likewise.. what name does this part have? Can't find it.

Re: Drawing Issue / Document Transmittal Sheet

james1 — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 05:19:47 GMT

Hi Deviz, just received this from Central Inovation.

There is an object called Document Transmittal Form #1990 under my select benefits Archicad 23 Essential library (Updated 02/03/2020) that probably will be a good solution for you.
If you don't have the Essential library installed yet, you can download it from your MyCI account.
https://myci.centralinnovation.com/

Also, we have a webinar where Josh explained how does it work.
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This video can be found under My Select Benefits > Videos

Looks really good, download and add the Archicad 23 Essential Library to your Archicad Library 23 folder, its worth watching Josh's video as well to get started,

Re: Drawing Issue / Document Transmittal Sheet

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 06:09:15 GMT

Fantastic James!
Look forward to exploring it!!

Thank you so much

Re: Drawing Issue / Document Transmittal Sheet

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 05:57:51 GMT

Hi James,

I've had a change to explore the object and didn't get too far with it.
Asked Central Innovation (CI) for assistance and they got me to 99% of it being perfect. The missing 1% unfortunately is quite critical to make it usable. It would in fact appear that either you chose to have all your drawings in descending order (top to bottom) or your issues in chronological order (left to right) - see attachment.

I'm still discussing this with CI cos I can't believe they have left this out of their thoughts when they developed it, however it would appear that it will be a suggestion for the next release of it (~3 months away).
Do you (or anyone else) have a workaround for this?

Re: Drawing Issue / Document Transmittal Sheet

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 03:09:44 GMT

Hi all,

so you know I've worked this out.
Trick is to keep issuing one layout religiously at every single issue.
I've created a sheet with the transmittal in it and chosen that as layout to issue every time.
You can then chose not to show that specific layout in the transmittal via library part settings. Yay! Automated transmittal is a thing now! Was about time! Thank you CI for developing it!

Re: Drawing Issue / Document Transmittal Sheet

Chuso — Tue, 25 May 2021 14:49:57 GMT

Hi Deviz,

We have just bought a CI licence and checking all tools and objects. I was wondering if you have had a chat with CI regarding the Document Transmittal Form and the possibility of include other data like scale, size of drawing, issuer initials. Looks like they are including just a few data but the object could be much more flexible.

Regards,

Chuso

Re: Drawing Issue / Document Transmittal Sheet

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 13:25:52 GMT

Hi Chuso,

apologies for my delay, I didn't receive any email notification of this message or I've missed it.
I didn't ask any of that as I normally don't include that information in the transmittal. I only care which drawing (number) and in which file format went to whom and when. Sorry