Split and name your permit drawings—without doing every sheet by hand.
Select your combined plan PDF, review the sheet names, and download individual drawing files in one ZIP — all in your browser. Enter your building department's naming pattern, or use a source-checked profile based on the authority's published instructions, linked on each local page.
One PDF, up to 100 pages and 100 MB. Plan sheets only — not reports, calculations, or forms. These are our product limits, not government requirements.
Your plan PDF is processed on your device. Account and payment information is handled separately. Sheet text, thumbnails, and filenames stay local.
$29 one-time for one source PDF of up to 100 sheets. Tax shown at checkout.
Verified permit jurisdictions
Four authorities have had their own published drawing filename rules read end to end. Each page shows the pattern, worked filename examples, the official source links, and the date the rules were last verified.
King County, WA
DWEL24-9999 A1.01 First Floor Plan.pdf
Requirements last verified: 2026-09-06
Portland, OR
006 A102 Site Plan Residential Demo.pdf
Requirements last verified: 2026-09-06
Clark County, WA
003 A101 Reference site plan.pdf
Requirements last verified: 2026-09-07
City of Miami, FL
A-01.pdf
Requirements last verified: 2026-09-07
Everywhere else, Permit Prep works from a portal template or your own naming pattern — those pages are labeled as unverified and are not presented as local rules.
How do I split a plan set for ProjectDox?
Many building departments that review plans in ProjectDox ask for the plan set as individual drawing-sheet PDFs — one file per sheet — rather than one combined document. Some do not, and some only ask for it at a particular stage, such as after your application is accepted for screening. The instruction that matters is the one your own permitting authority publishes, so read their upload handout before you split anything.
Where single-sheet files are required, the manual version of this job is slow: open the combined set, export page by page, then rename every file to the sheet number and title printed on the drawing. Permit Prep does that pass for you. Select the combined plan PDF, and it reads each page, proposes the sheet number and sheet title it found in the title block, and shows them in an editable table with a confidence flag on anything it is unsure about. You correct what is wrong, then download one ZIP containing an individual PDF per drawing sheet plus a manifest. The pages are copied as-is — nothing is cropped, rescaled, flattened, or redrawn — and your drawings are read and split in your browser, not uploaded to us.
Filenames come from whichever pattern you pick. If your authority has a source-checked profile here, use it: the pattern was taken from that authority's own published instructions, which are linked with a review date on the local page. If it does not, get the pattern from your building department's handout and enter it under custom naming. Permit Prep will apply it consistently and flag filenames that break the length or character rules you set, but it cannot tell you what your jurisdiction requires, and it does not submit anything to a portal or guarantee acceptance.
ProjectDox file naming conventions vary by jurisdiction
ProjectDox is software, not a naming standard. Each authority that runs it writes its own convention, so a pattern copied from another city or county is one of the most common reasons a submittal gets kicked back. The four we have read the sources for are not remotely alike: King County ProjectDox file naming puts the county record number first, then the sheet number and sheet title, and forbids date stamps; Portland ProjectDox file naming starts with a three-digit ordering number that matches the sheet index, caps the whole filename at 50 characters, and rejects several punctuation characters; Clark County ProjectDox file naming uses a three-digit order number matching the cover-sheet index, suggests keeping names under 40 characters, and forbids a long list of punctuation characters; and City of Miami ePlan file naming uses a discipline designator plus drawing number in all caps with no spaces. These jurisdictions require a resubmitted sheet to keep its original filename — but that is a portal versioning behaviour, not a promise about your jurisdiction.
Source-checked local workflows are listed below as we read them. Everywhere else, use custom naming with the pattern from your own building department.
Where the rules come from
Permit Prep splits and names plan sheets for a submittal anywhere in the US, but only four authorities have a source-checked profile: King County, WA; Portland, OR; Clark County, WA; and the City of Miami, FL. These naming profiles are based on the authorities' published instructions, linked on each local page. Everything else is either a portal-family template — the common shape of that e-plan software, not a statement about what your building department requires — or your own naming pattern. Get the pattern from your building department's handout and enter it under Custom naming.
Source-checked workflows
These naming profiles are based on the authorities' published instructions, linked on each local page.
King County, WA — ProjectDox drawings
King County building permit, plans uploaded to Avolve ProjectDox after intake on MyBuildingPermit.com
Profile version 2026-09-06.kc1 · sources last reviewed 2026-09-06
Portland, OR — ProjectDox file naming standards
Portland Permitting & Development plan review, files uploaded to ProjectDox
Profile version 2026-09-06.pdx1 · sources last reviewed 2026-09-06
Clark County, WA — ProjectDox plan files
Clark County Community Development electronic plan review, plan files uploaded to ProjectDox
Profile version 2026-09-07.clark1 · sources last reviewed 2026-09-07
City of Miami, FL — ePlan / ProjectDox drawings
City of Miami ePlan Review, drawing sheets uploaded to ProjectDox
Profile version 2026-09-07.mia1 · sources last reviewed 2026-09-07
Portal-family templates
Starting points only. These are not reviewed against any jurisdiction's published rules and carry no review date, because no source establishes them.
ProjectDox / Avolve portal (any US county or city)
ProjectDox-style drawing preparation
Not jurisdiction-verified — confirm the pattern with your building department.
Accela Citizen Access portal (any US county or city)
Accela electronic document submittal
Not jurisdiction-verified — confirm the pattern with your building department.
Tyler EnerGov / eTRAKiT portal (any US county or city)
Tyler EnerGov plan submittal
Not jurisdiction-verified — confirm the pattern with your building department.
CityView / eplans portal (any US county or city)
CityView portal plan submittal
Not jurisdiction-verified — confirm the pattern with your building department.
Email or counter submittal (any US county or city)
Manual submittal to a building department
Not jurisdiction-verified — confirm the pattern with your building department.
Custom naming
Your own naming pattern
Enter the pattern from your building department's handout. Nothing is checked against any jurisdiction.
What this does — and does not do
- It splits a combined plan set into one PDF per drawing sheet and applies the naming pattern you choose.
- It copies page content — no cropping, rescaling, watermarking, flattening, or redrawing.
- It does not review code, approve permits, submit anything to a portal, or guarantee acceptance. Some requirements, such as clear stamp space, are listed as manual checks for you to verify.
- Certificate-signed or certified PDFs, encrypted PDFs, and PDFs with interactive form fields are not supported in this release.
Permit requirements by city and jurisdiction
Pages where we have read the authority's own published instructions, grouped by state. Each one lists the submission platform, filename format, character and size rules, source links, and the date we verified them.
Find your state
Naming guidance and the usual portal for major cities and counties in each state.
Frequently asked questions
How do I split construction plans into individual sheets?
Select your combined plan PDF in the Permit Prep workspace. It reads each page, proposes a sheet number and title, and produces one PDF per drawing sheet in a single ZIP.
How should permit drawing files be named?
It depends entirely on the authority. Of the four workflows here that have been checked against published instructions: King County, WA uses record number + sheet number + sheet title; Portland, OR uses a three-digit order number + sheet number + description within a 50-character limit; Clark County, WA uses a three-digit order number matching the cover-sheet index + sheet number + description, with a 40-character tip and a list of forbidden characters; and the City of Miami, FL uses a discipline designator + drawing number in all caps with no spaces. Read your own building department's handout and enter that pattern.
Which permit portals are supported?
There are templates for the common e-plan systems — ProjectDox/Avolve, Accela Citizen Access, Tyler EnerGov/eTRAKiT, CityView, and email or counter submittals — plus fully custom naming. Only King County, WA; Portland, OR; Clark County, WA; and the City of Miami, FL have had their published rules read; every other template is a starting point you should check against your own building department's handout.
Are my plans uploaded to a server?
No. Your plan PDF is read and split in your browser on your device. Sheet text, thumbnails, and filenames stay local.
What does Permit Prep cost?
Previewing and naming your sheets is free. Generating the split ZIP is a $29 one-time package covering one source PDF of up to 100 sheets. For 30 days you can rebuild that package at no extra charge — your drawings are never stored on our servers, so you reselect the same PDF in the workspace to regenerate it.
Does this guarantee my submittal is accepted?
No. PDFOnCall is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or approved by any building department or portal vendor. Requirements such as clear stamp space are listed as manual checks for you to verify.
PDFOnCall is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by any building department or permit portal vendor.