Project Indexes in V10?? Not Useful!!

[Anonymous]

What is the purpose of Project Indexes pull down menu under Document? I can't get the list of my drawings to show up in the order that I need them to show for our cover sheet. It also still shows a sheet I told it not to look at. It would be fabulous if it could show automatically the sheets used for our sheet index. Then we don't have to check to see if we named them correctly or if we have 3 sheets of interior elevations instead of 2. WHO does this help? Before I continue with my rant, am I not using it correctly?

Please prove me wrong,
Michele

[James Murray]

Michele wrote:
I can't get the list of my drawings to show up in the order that I need them to show for our cover sheet.

Try this.

It also still shows a sheet I told it not to look at.

It would be fabulous if it could show automatically the sheets used for our sheet index.

The way to control what layouts are listed is the Criteria section. You can list members of subsets (best IMO), layouts with given masters (eh), and/or which layouts were published in a given publication (Combine this with the subset criterion to not list non-published layouts).

HTH?

[Link]

There was a similar problem with the Drawing Index here.

The 80% target has successfully been reached again!

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

I found out in the criteria section you have to list all the subsets you WANT to list. Which of course is the longer way of doing it!!!???? I can just list the ones I don't want to list. AND I have to list the sheets that start with L or S or M separately so that I can arrange them the way I want them to appear after I place them in the layout.
another example of a good idea not fully thought though.

Thanks,
Michele

[matthewjj]

I agree, to some degree. The Sheet Index for example should have a way of adding sheets that don't exist in your Layout Book.

For example: I have just finished a set with 152 sheets, 52 of them were mine. I cannot use the Sheet Index because it doesn't contain the other 100 sheets that I received from my consultants. I have to type it in no matter what I do, I don't mind that. I would like to be able to use the Sheet Index and there is no way to add 'Ghost-Sheets'... making 100 blank sheets is an unacceptable 'work-around'.

[Laura Yanoviak]

Michele wrote:
I found out in the criteria section you have to list all the subsets you WANT to list. Which of course is the longer way of doing it!!!???? I can just list the ones I don't want to list.

Apparently (from my recent experience) the "is not" filtering criteria does not work. I, too, had to specify the items I WANT to list.

[SeaGeoff]

The is-not is working for me (966). Clearly the index needs some polish. The ability to sub-sort by subset is the first and most obvious requirement. Matthew's need to insert sheets from other sources is also common. Of course you could fake it now with blank layouts. You'd have to be sure not to print them but that's easy with Publisher sets.

[Anonymous]

We use the automatic drawing list for the in-house sheets and either a text block or linked PDF for the consultants. The lists are typically separate columns on the cover so the formating isn't much of a problem, and the consultant's sheet index has to be maintained manually anyway so I don't see that much advantage to including it in the automatic system.

[Anonymous]

Matthew wrote:
We use the automatic drawing list for the in-house sheets and either a text block or linked PDF for the consultants. The lists are typically separate columns on the cover so the formating isn't much of a problem, and the consultant's sheet index has to be maintained manually anyway so I don't see that much advantage to including it in the automatic system.

I am still on Archicad 9.0...Is there a way to make a project index list using Plotmaker 9.0?

Or is this a Archicad 10 feature only?

Jaime Neto

Archicad 9.0.0, 2045 Int Full | PlotMaker 9.0.0 2045 INT Full | Apple PowerBook G4, 1GB Ram

[TomWaltz]

That's a new feature in Archicad 10.