Printing and renaming PDF from Dynamo

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I’m new to Dynamo and am trying to make my first Dynamo workflow to work.
I’ve followed Konrad’s post (http://archi-lab.net/printing-pdfs-w-dynamo/) but got an error ad the end (in the Rename Files).

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Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 27, in
WindowsError: [Errno 2] [Errno 3] Could not find a part of the path ‘C:\Users\jnb\Desktop\PDF test pints\New PDF Document.dpf’.

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Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 27, in
WindowsError: [Errno 17] [Errno 183] Cannot create a file when that file already exists.

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Hi Bart,

I had a similar problem so I wrote a script in C# to batch rename the PDFs and CAD files. You can find the node in the package manager named RenamePDF. Below is a link to my post along with a video.

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It would be nice if Konrad would update the Rename Files node, since it does not work in the latest version of Dynamo. However, it does still work in older versions. I was able to get it working without any issues in Dynamo 0.9.1.4062 (this is the version that installs with Revit 2017) with archi-lab version 2015.10.3.

Obviously not ideal, but Dynamo 0.9.1 can be installed side by side with newer versions, so it’s not a big issue.

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I seem to get the exact same error message as you Bart, did this get solved?

Thanks, Jack.

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I’ve been very busy with other stuff and unfortunately didn’t have time to look into this.
When I solved it, I will post it here.
But any input is still very welcome.

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Another way to get at it is to use string logic to write a BAT file that RENAMEs all the PDFs. The BAT can be then used outside of Revit/Dynamo.

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In that graph, we had folders full of PDFs made by Bluebeam and the file names needed to have the sheets’ revision number in them.