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Have you experienced a blank and somewhat non-responsive Print dialog in Revit? Pressing Setup does nothing in this situation: What’s going on here? Well, there is something in the Microsoft Print to …
To do this in Windows 7, open up the printer from the Devices and Printers option on the Start menu (or search for your printer by name). Drag the relevant files onto the printer window, and you’ll se…
You can make certain layers export as non printable layers when exporting from Revit 2012 to AutoCAD DWG or DXF files. First, you need to set the following checkbox in the Modify DWG/DXF Export Setup …
Sometimes you will want to produce a large set of PDFs where each drawing sheet is in its own PDF file. You also want the PDFs to be automatically named and created. There are a number of ways to acco…
After trying many free PDF Writers over the years, I have found CutePDF Writer to be the best. In order to ensure you are producing the best PDF files you can (high quality while still keeping file si…
I find it quite funny that one of the ‘solutions’ to this problem is…don’t lock your computer (“you can prevent this behavior by not locking the computer when printing or exporting”). Thanks a lot! Re…
So, you try and print a view with an image in it, and Revit 2010 just decides to crash…and you can’t figure it out! Well, Revit wants you to choose ‘Raster’ instead of ‘Vector’ under the ‘Print’ dialo…