This step-by-step guide provides comprehensive instructions on how to save and print your work in Revit for fire protection designs. The guide discusses in detail the processes of setting up the printer, combining files, adjusting paper placement, hiding reference work planes, selecting views or sheets, and saving the project.
Key Insights:
- The guide emphasizes the importance of selecting the correct settings when preparing to print your work in Revit, including choosing the correct printer, setting the orientation to landscape, and ensuring the paper size matches the dimensions of your plan.
- When saving your work, the guide suggests combining all sheets into one file for ease of access and organization. It also recommends creating a specific file name to ensure your work is easily identifiable.
- Checking every sheet one last time before finalizing the work is advised. If any errors are found, it is recommended to go back to the Revit file and make necessary adjustments.
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All right everyone, congratulations—first of all, you made it to the final video. It has been quite a journey, and as you can see, fire protection in Revit requires a lot of detail with pipes, sprinklers, and setting up your sheets, but it’s part of the process and part of the industry—and here we are, finally at the end. So before we print the PDF, let's go ahead and save.
All right, so let’s go to File > Print. Okay, for your printer, go ahead and, if it’s not already selected, choose the Bullzip PDF Printer, and then click Properties. Ensure the orientation is set to Landscape, and then go to Advanced. If your paper size is currently set to Letter or something different, make sure you choose ARCH E1, which matches the size of the sheets we brought in and used to set up all of our plan sheets.
Okay, go ahead and click OK. Next, let’s combine everything into one file. Since we have seven sheets, we don’t want seven separate PDFs. We’ll combine everything into one file. Click Browse, and choose where you’re saving your course work.
You could put it in your BIM 324 file downloads or have a separate folder. I created a BIM 324 Coursework folder. Okay, now name this BIM-324-Final-[YourName].
Once that’s done, let’s go to Setup under Options, and please make sure your Paper Placement is set to Center, and the Zoom is set to Zoom: 100%. You don’t necessarily need this for this project, but you do want to make sure Hide Reference Work Planes and Hide Unreferenced View Tags are selected—just in case you use this setup for another project in the future. Click OK. When asked to save these settings, choose No for now.
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Now under Print Range, select Selected Views/Sheets, then click Select. If you’re seeing anything else, deselect 2D Views and 3D Views so that only your sheets appear. Select all of them, click Select, then click OK. You should now see your print summary.
Click Create File, then click Save—your PDF is now complete. Here’s the PDF. I recommend checking each sheet one last time. If you find any errors, feel free to go back into your Revit file and make the necessary adjustments.
Once you're satisfied with everything, don’t forget to save your Revit file for your final upload. Please go to Save As > Project, navigate to where you’re saving all of your coursework, and save your file as BIM-324-Final-[YourName].
And with that, I’d like to say thank you for joining me. I hope you enjoyed this Revit for Fire Protection Design course at Virtual Design and Construction Institute.
We also offer other Revit MEP courses, and we look forward to seeing you there.
