Auto Numbering

Auto Numbering

Numbers, renumbers, and tags Revit elements in the order you choose — by row, grid, curve, or hand-picking — with a full preview before anything changes in your model.

How to use

1. Open Auto Numbering from Revit with your project open, then open the plan, section, elevation, or schedule you want to number from.
2. Under Scope, choose what gets numbered: everything visible in the active view or schedule, the current Revit selection, elements you pick one by one, or the whole model. Narrow it down by category, level, family, type, or a parameter condition.
3. Choose the numbering order — along rows or columns, clockwise or counter-clockwise around the plan, along curves you have drawn, by nearest grid, in the order you picked, or in creation order.
4. Pick the parameter to fill, such as Mark, then set how the numbers look: start value, step, padding, prefix, and suffix.
5. Decide how groups and existing values are treated — restart the count per group, keep or replace current values, skip duplicates or fill gaps.
6. Click Preview to see every proposed number before the model is touched. Click a row to find that element in Revit, use Color order to see the sequence on screen, and review any conflicts.
7. Click Apply. The whole run lands as a single step you can undo in Revit.

Good to know

• Numbers can weave in live values from the model — grid location, level, room or space, category, family, type, or any parameter — so a door near grid A-4 can come out as A-4-01 automatically.
• Sequences can be plain (1, 2, 3), padded (001), fractional, negative, lettered (A, B, C), or follow a custom alphabet of your own.
• Parameters & tags can create a fresh text parameter for your numbers (for example AN_Number), fill a parameter with each element's permanent Revit identity code for coordination, and place tags that display the numbers — generating a tag family automatically where your Revit version allows it, or using a compatible tag type you already have.
• Preview is read-only, duplicates and conflicts are flagged before you apply, and preview colors are cleaned up with one click.
• Save named configurations of your numbering rules, export them to a settings file to share with your team, and your last-used settings come back automatically next time.
• Trying a new office standard? Run it on a copy or detached model first — nothing is written until you click Apply, and every applied run is one Revit Undo step.