Sheet index

Lists the sheets of a set — drawing number, title, revision, status, date and scale — read from their own title blocks, and exports the list as a spreadsheet.

Why you would use it

A drawing register is kept by hand on almost every job, and is wrong by the second revision. The information is already on the sheets; this reads it, and checks the set as a whole, which no single sheet can: two sheets with one number, or a sheet with none.

For example

What to do

1. Choose Add PDFs, or Add the open drawings.
2. Read the flags in the Check column. If sheets didn’t read well, choose Scan sheets that didn’t read (a few seconds a sheet).
3. Type over any value that’s wrong; it’s marked as edited.
4. Export CSV.

Going further

The files are read in this browser and aren’t uploaded; each is opened only long enough to be read. Values come from the sheets: the file name is shown as a flag when it disagrees and is never used to fill in a blank. A sheet whose title block is a picture with a text layer made by recognition is read by the patterns of its values and says so in the Read by column. Template text such as “Unnamed” isn’t listed as a title. Scanning reads the sheets that didn’t read by text recognition on this computer: one sheet at a time, it can be stopped between sheets, rows you have typed over are never touched, and scanned rows say so in the Read by column; recognition can slip on small print, so check them.