Auto Name is a utility that provides fast and accurate updates to your Pages’ Sheet Number and Sheet Name. You don’t need to use another app to rename your pages or spend hours renaming them manually; let On-Screen Takeoff and Auto Name do it for you in seconds. Our Auto Name utility helps you get your project setup in no time. After you load your plans (see the previous articles for the different ways to add plans), use Auto Name to scan your plans to extract Sheet Name and Sheet Number.
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You need an active, high-speed Internet connection to use this Auto Name (plans are uploaded to our cloud, analyzed, and then a data file is downloaded to On-Screen Takeoff that contains updated Sheet Numbers and Sheet Names). Please see Related articles for information on ensuring your Firewall is set up to allow this communication with the "Cloud".
Takeoff BOOST™ AI-Powered Auto Name
v.4.0.0.1006 and newer (09-08-2026 Release)
Now part of the Takeoff BOOST suite of AI-powered takeoff and automation tools, the updated Auto Name is better than ever! Using the power of AI, Auto Name now requires no user intervention - it simply uploads your plans, analyzes them, finds the Title Block, and extracts the Sheet Number and Name - automatically. In seconds.
Takeoff BOOST Auto Name is available to all On-Screen Takeoff subscription users (Essential, Core, Plus, and Professional) plus legacy users migrated to the email/password login versions on Advanced or Premium maintenance. (Standard Maintenance customers still have access to the previous Auto Name version.)
Takeoff BOOST’s tools use Artificial Intelligence to provide results. It is your responsibility to verify results to ensure accuracy.
Use of Auto Name requires uploading of some or all of your project plans. Ensure you have the legal right to do so. Please see the End User License Agreement and Master Service Agreement for more information.
You run Auto Name from a Project’s Cover Sheet.
Starting Auto Name from the Cover Sheet
Notice that Auto Scale button next to Auto Name. After running Auto Name, run Auto Scale to get through another tedious process in seconds!
The first time you run Auto Name, you’ll see a welcome screen.
Takeoff BOOST Auto Name Welcome screen
This welcome screen is information only - you can click “Don’t show this again” to not see it again.
- Click the Get Started button
And literally, that’s all you need to do!
Auto Name uploads your plan set (if it hasn’t been uploaded in the past 30 days) and then extracts the Sheet Number and Name and updates them accordingly.
As Auto Name churns through your plan set, you’ll see a progress indicator in the bottom-right corner of the application.
Auto Name processing indicator
You can continue to work in this or any other Project while Auto Name runs - keep an eye on that progress pop-up to see what Auto Name is doing.
When Auto Name is complete, you’ll see that in the progress pop-up.
Auto Name progress indicator showing “Complete”
You’ll see the updated Sheet Names and Numbers in the Cover Sheet and in the Page Navigator on the Takeoff Tab.
Auto Name results showing in the Page Navigator on the Takeoff Tab
Original Auto Name
Versions prior to v.4.0.0.982.
You must be under a current Maintenance Subscription to use Auto Name. If you have allowed your Subscription to lapse, please contact our Client Services at 866-426-2447 to renew today!
Auto Name is a two step process: first, you tell Auto Name where to look for the Sheet Name and Number on your plans. Then you run Auto Name which does everything else for you.
- Select the Pages on which You Want to run Auto Name
- Define the Sheet No. and Sheet Name Locations
- Run Auto Name and Check Progress
Select the Pages on which You Want to Run Auto Name
Open the Cover Sheet for the Bid (if it's not already or still open).
Note the current Sheet Numbers and Names - based on the Image File name...
Click the 
button at the bottom of the dialog box; the Auto Name panel displays and a "Status" column is added to the Plan Organizer grid. (If no Page(s) is selected (clicked on/highlighted) in the grid, the panel is disabled.)
Next, we're going to tell Auto Name where to look on each plan for its Sheet No. (optional) and Sheet Name. First, though, we have to make an educated guess and try to figure out which Pages' plans would have the have their Sheet No. and Sheet Name in the same relative location on each plan.
Select those Pages or use Page Folders to put them in a folder (see Related Articles for details).
Page Folders
When you use Page Folders, you can select the folder instead of the Pages inside the folder. Auto Name assumes that all Pages in a folder have their Sheet No. and Sheet Name in the same location so you set the Sheet No. and Sheet Name at the folder-level, rather than per-page.
- If you organize your Pages into Folders, you define the reference location for all the Pages in that folder. If there are Pages in that folder that have Sheet Number or Name locations that don't match the others, move them out of the folder - Auto Name will not process them.
- You must select Pages of the same Size - Auto Name uses the defined location for all the selected Pages based on the coordinates of the first Page, if any of the Pages are smaller or larger, Auto Name will not process them.
Define Sheet No. and Sheet Name Locations
Once you have one or more Pages selected, click the 
button.
Setting the Location is critical to getting good results with Auto Name, because it instructs the service where to look on your Plan for Sheet No. and Sheet Name so it can ignore the rest of the content on the drawing.
A preview of the plan opens with two boxes in the bottom right corner (they are similar in function to the editing Rectangle Annotations) labeled "Sheet No." and "Sheet Name".
You'll resize and move these boxes to define where Auto Name should look for the Sheet No. and Sheet Name on the plan.
First, you'll probably need to pan and zoom to locate the Sheet No. and Sheet Name in the title block. You can use the buttons at the top of the screen or the normal keyboard shortcuts to manipulate the plan view.
Next, drag the boxes to their appropriate location and resize them. Here's an example from our plan set...
Here's another example of placement of the location boxes from a different plan set...
Make the boxes (especially the Sheet Name box) big enough to accommodate Numbers and Names that are longer than what is shown on this plan. Don't just cover the current Sheet Name, cover the entire "field" that can be used for Sheet Name. Same for Sheet No.
These location boxes allow Auto Name to "ignore" the rest of the plan when trying to determine the Sheet No. and Sheet Name and these regions are used for all the Pages you selected in the Plan Organizer.
When you have set the Sheet No. and Sheet Name locations, click the OK button at the top of the dialog box.
This returns you to the Cover Sheet. Notice the Status column displays "Ready" for the Pages for which you've set Sheet No. and Sheet Name Location.
"Ready" only indicates that you have opened the Set Location dialog box for these Pages and then clicked OK, this does not mean the location is correct - that's up to you to ensure you've defined the locations correctly.
If you need to adjust the Sheet No. or Sheet Name for one or two Pages (after setting location for some/all of the Pages in the Plan Organizer), you must select those Pages and click the 
button before editing/updating the location boxes. If you don't Reset individual Page, Auto Name will update the location for all Pages in "Ready" status.<
Run Auto Name and Check Progress
Click the 
button, a notification displays...
While Auto Name is processing this project's plans, you can work it in it or any other project in On-Screen Takeoff.
Each Page's Status updates from Ready to Processing and then to Completed, as it is processed by Auto Name.
Click the 
button to interrupt processing. Pages whose Sheet No. and Names are already updated remain updated.
As each plan is processed, the Page's Sheet No. and Sheet Name update immediately and its Status is set to Completed.
You can close the project's Cover Sheet anytime and monitor progress on the status bar...
Bad Results?
Auto Name relies on the user to tell it where to find the Sheet No. and Sheet Name on one or more Pages. Setting the Location properly is what allows Auto Name to run quickly and with high accuracy. Please review the FAQ Why is Auto Name Returning Bad Results? if you aren't getting back the results you expect from Auto Name.
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