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How to Create Sheets in Revit
Seven steps in Revit, or one sentence in Mira.
Do it with MiraClick View tab › Sheet Composition panel › Sheet and pick a title block. Set its Sheet Number and Sheet Name in Properties, then drag views onto it from the Project Browser. For many at once, add placeholder rows to a sheet list.
Or, just ask Mira, a free add-in, to create sheets from your list, a plan on each.
How to do it in Revit
Step 1: Add a sheet
Click View tab › Sheet Composition panel › Sheet. In the New Sheet dialog, pick a title block, or click Load to bring one in, and click OK (Autodesk Help: Add a Sheet). Choose None for a sheet without a title block.
Step 2: Number and name it
Revit gives each new sheet a default number and name. Change Sheet Number and Sheet Name in the Properties palette, or right-click the sheet in the Project Browser and choose Rename (F2). Revit warns you if the number is already in use.
Step 3: Place the views
Drag a view from the Project Browser onto the sheet, or click View tab › Sheet Composition panel › Place View, pick the view and click Add View to Sheet. Click to drop the viewport where it belongs (Autodesk Help: Add Views to a Sheet).
Step 4: Make the sheet index
Click View tab › Create panel › Schedules › Sheet List and add Sheet Number and Sheet Name as fields. Drag it from the Project Browser onto the cover sheet like any schedule, and it updates as sheets change (Autodesk Help: Create a Sheet List). More in how to create a schedule.
Step 5: Plan the set as placeholder rows
In the sheet list, click Modify Schedule/Quantities tab › Rows panel › Insert Data Row for each sheet you plan, and type its number and name. These placeholder sheets live only in the list, not in the Project Browser (Autodesk Help: Add Placeholder Sheets to a Sheet List).
Step 6: Create the sheets from the list
Click View tab › Sheet Composition panel › Sheet again. Under Select placeholder sheets, Ctrl-click the rows you want, pick the title block and click OK. Revit creates every selected sheet at once, already numbered and named.
Step 7: Duplicate a sheet you've set up
Right-click a sheet in the Project Browser and choose Duplicate Sheet. Duplicate Empty Sheet copies only the title block, Duplicate with Sheet Detailing adds its schedules, legends and annotation, and Duplicate with Views also makes copies of its views.
What to watch for
A view goes on one sheet. Each floor plan, section or elevation can sit on only one sheet, so duplicate the view to show it twice. Legends and schedules, the sheet list included, can go on as many sheets as you like.
Sheet numbers must be unique. Revit warns when a number is taken. Since Revit 2025, Sheet Collections let a number repeat once per collection, which suits separate submissions in one model.
Keep a sheet out of the index. Clear Appears in Sheet List in a sheet's properties to leave it out of every sheet list, as Autodesk suggests for the cover sheet that holds the list.
Line plans up across sheets. A guide grid, or from Revit 2026 a saved position, puts each plan in the same spot on every sheet. See how to align views on sheets.
Swap the title block later. Select the title block on a sheet and pick another in the Type Selector. To build your firm's own, see how to create a title block.
Every project builds its sheet set by hand. A 60-sheet set means 60 numbers, names and title blocks typed one at a time, and each project numbers them a little differently. Autodesk's own advice is to put the standard sheets in the project template, so a new project opens with them already listed. Keeping that template current as part of your firm standards means the next team doesn't start from an empty Sheets list.
Or, just ask Mira to do it.
Mira is an AI thinking partner for Revit that automates the work you repeat and builds tools your team needs.
- Type this in Mira
Create sheets A-101 to A-106 from this list, with our title block, and place each floor plan on its sheet.
Mira reads the list you paste with the prompt, asks which title block is yours if more than one is loaded, and checks that each number is free and each plan isn't already on a sheet. It writes a small tool to create the sheets, which asks Allow first, and names any sheet it left empty and why.
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