Thread: Printing question

I am trying to print some sample PDF's of the families I created. I also created a titleblock. For some reason the 3D view takes an excruciating long time to print out. Is it because it's shaded? Is there a way I can get it to print correctly yet cut down on the processing time?

Export the 3D view as an image and place the image on the titleblock perhaps.

Is the filesize very large as well after it takes so long to make the PDF?
If so, I think there should be some setting in your PDF printer that might cause that, like DPI or embedded images.

I remember in the past we had to do something different when creating a PDF from Revit. That it didn't work very quickly creating a PDF. There was an extra step needed. I don't recall that process though. I have set everything to draft settings, I turned off the far clipping plane, and it is still bogging down and not creating a PDF.

Any chance you can use a different PDF printer to see if it is the printer or Revit causing the issue?
I think I had issues with the Adobe PDF printer giving extremely large files (and taking forever to print).

I did tune down the DPI a bit to 600. Also, I noticed that I have to do a print preview, then I hit print, from the preview screen, it sends me back to the main print dialogue box, and from there, once I hit print, it works just fine.

I would decrease the DPI to 300. If the 3-d view has hatches, patterns, or anything overly detailed, the PDF output can take 10-20 minutes. Reducing the DPI from 600 to 300 can reduce the output time down to a fourth of the time.

Originally Posted by MPwuzhere

Export the 3D view as an image and place the image on the titleblock perhaps.

I had the same issue with a project. When I started exporting and placing images on sheets, the plot time returned to what it was before hand.


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