- [Narrator] So in this video,
we're going to talk about
one of the most common forms of output.
And that is printing.
Now, I'm actually going to print to a PDF.
But I'm also going to talk about
how you can print to a hardcopy printer as well.
So we're really going to look at both
because we use the same command,
regardless of which one you're doing.
So I've got a sheet open here,
but you can actually print any view.
So that's the first thing that you want to know.
So it's not necessary to have sheets in order to print
but sheets usually give a more professional output.
You go to the File menu
and highlight the print option
and that will expand a sub menu.
And there's a few different options over here.
So print preview and Print Setup,
you can actually get to both of those
directly from the print window.
And then of course batch print is as you can see here,
it's if you want to create a large number of prints
so you can use that
but I'm going to go to print then and here's setup
and here's preview.
So both of those commands
that were in the sub menu are also available here.
Let's start in this window
kind of systematically go through it.
It's actually fairly straightforward.
So if you've ever printed anything before,
then there's a lot of stuff here that is familiar,
starting with the printer.
So each printer is going to have different settings
unique to that piece of hardware.
So it's always a good idea to start with the printer
because you don't want to configure a bunch of settings
and then change printer
and then have to do it all over again,
I'm not going to click the properties here,
because that's going to be totally unique to the printer.
So what I see on my screen would look very different
than what you have available.
So just choose the printer that you want to print to.
And if it's a hardcopy print device, choose it there.
Otherwise, one of the options that you can do is Adobe PDF.
So I'm going to choose Adobe PDF
so that we can actually create
the printed output right on screen.
But like I said,
if you actually want to do a physical print
then feel free to choose your print device from the menu.
And it's the same dialog either way.
Now when you choose Adobe PDF,
it will enable the file area down here.
And there's two options here,
you can either combine multiple views
and sheets into a single PDF file,
or you can create separate PDF files.
Now I personally like to combine them together.
So I prefer to have just one PDF.
And if I'm going to print all of these sheets,
I want them all to just be pages in that PDF file.
Now that option is not available if you choose
a hardcopy print device
because it will literally print several sheets of paper
so it's a little bit different.
Now here it will suggest a location,
but you can click this Browse button
and point it to someplace else.
But honestly,
I usually don't bother with that because when we click OK,
it's going to ask us anyway where we want to put it,
So we'll come back to that in a moment.
Let's move down to print range,
several options here,
you could do the current window,
which means
whatever you see on screen there in the background,
that's what's going to print,
you could do the visible portion of the current window.
Now it's tough for me to show you what that looks like
unless I close this window.
I'll zoom in, like so.
And then I'll go back to file,
highlight print,
choose print again.
And now with the visible portion of the current window,
I'll click Preview,
and notice that it's zoomed in on that general area
that I asked for.
If I close this preview,
it will close all the way out of the command.
I'll have to go back to print and print again.
If I did current window and preview,
then you see how it does the full sheet.
Now if you don't want to close
and have to go back to the print command,
you can click this print button here.
Which is a little counterintuitive,
because you think
that's just going to send it to the printer.
But actually,
that just means get me back to the print window.
So those two are what you would choose from
if you're just printing the current window on screen.
My favorite choice though,
is this option here,
which allows you to click this Select button.
And then it will list out all the views
and sheets in your model.
And you can print multiples.
And really that's what I intended anyway,
because back in the background here
I chose combine multiple views into a single PDF.
Now down here at the bottom,
there are two checkboxes to show sheets and show views.
So I'm going to uncheck views and focus on just the sheets.
But if you want to print views, you can absolutely do that.
Then I'll do check all and print the entire set.
Now if you want,
you can save this as and give it a name.
And when I do that will show up in the list right there.
I'll click OK and because I gave it a name
It'll tell me that's what I'm printing all sheets.
So now let's look at setup
because there's a few settings in there
you might want to configure.
So I'll click this.
And most of this is self explanatory.
But as I say,
there's a few things that you might want to adjust.
Because we're printing to a PDF,
we will have access
to not only the smaller laser printers sheet sizes,
but we'll also have access
to the full size architectural sheets.
So in my case, I'm in Imperial.
This title block is an arch e1 sheet size.
If you're working in the metric file,
its arch a.
So choose one of those
and when you export to PDF,
it will use that size virtual piece of paper.
Now you can center it on the sheet
or you could offset it some distance
from the corner with a user defined x&y.
I'll just go ahead and center it.
You could zoom to fit here.
But that's not necessarily to scale,
if you want it to be to scale,
so whatever the scale was you set for each view,
you want to zoom 100%,
you want to do a half size to zoom 50%.
Of course, you've got landscape orientation.
And some of these options,
vector processing is usually higher quality
and a little bit faster.
But sometimes you need to do raster processing.
And in fact,
if Revit can't do vector processing,
it will prompt us to do raster.
And if necessary,
you'll see that message,
you can tell it what level of quality you want to use
and how you want to treat colors.
So if you have any color
and you want to force it all to black,
you can do that.
Now down here at the bottom,
there are some hide checkboxes.
So most of the time in Revit,
the rule is if you see it in the view,
then it prints so what you see is what you get,
unless it's one of these items,
so if you have reference planes,
you can hide them at print time,
if you have scope boxes,
which we didn't create any,
but that's a utility object like a reference plane,
you can hide that at print time,
hide crop boundaries,
crop boundaries had their own little hide option.
But if you forgot to toggle that off in a particular view,
you can hide them all here at the time of printing.
And then hide unreferenced view tags
if you think back a few videos
where we talked about view references,
the ones that are on sheets,
where it said this is detail two on sheet,
A6 that's going to print regardless,
but the ones that weren't on a sheet yet
where there was no view reference.
If you check this box,
it will hide those and they won't print.
Choose whatever settings you like here,
you click OK.
And then assuming you're ready to go,
you click OK again
and it will start to create the PDF
and this is what I mentioned a moment ago,
is even if you choose a location for it,
it's probably still going to prompt you
where you want to put it anyway.
So I will put this on my desktop.
And I'll just call this fullset
and click Save.
So when it's done,
you should have that PDF in the folder
that you placed it in.
And you can just open that up.
And you will see over here if you go to pages
that each of the sheets will be
a separate sheet here in the file,
and you can page through them, like so.
One really neat feature of working in the PDF here,
let me just zoom it in a little bit.
And then pan down here
is these become hyperlinks.
So if I click right on this,
it will take me to the sheet that references that section.
So that's the other reason
that I like to combine all of my sheets into a single PDF
because then we are able to take advantage of that feature.