Discover the ease of creating a comprehensive PDF from multiple sheets on Revit. Learn how updates on the sheet number and index can be reflected in the cover sheet and how to compile all these details into one PDF file.
Key Insights
- Revit allows for realtime updates on your sheet number and index, which are instantaneously reflected on the cover sheet.
- When exporting sheets on Revit into a PDF, it's important to ensure that all relevant sheets are selected and that they appear in the proper order. The option to edit the print order is available if changes need to be made.
- Revit enables the consolidation of multiple sheets into a single PDF file, ensuring a clean and organized presentation of work. The file can be named and saved in any preferred location on your computer.
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Now that we have our awesome sheets here, let's go back to our cover sheet—our E001 electrical cover sheet—and we can see the magic of Revit. We've updated our sheet number and index, and it's looking pretty good. We might make some updates to that later, but so far, so good.
Let's make this into a PDF. To do that, we'll go to File, Export, and then PDF. This will create PDF files—it’s super easy.
We'll go through some settings here. First off, we want Selected Views/Sheets. It might say All Sheets, but sometimes when I’ve clicked this, it doesn’t print all the sheets. So what we can do is click Edit. For example, right now, it just has the one cover sheet selected, and we’ve got 'Hide Unchecked Views' enabled.
Uncheck 'Hide, ' and filter to 'All Sheets.' Now, we can select all of those sheets, and we’ve got them here. We can edit the print order, but right now, it's looking pretty good.
It's E001,010,130,140,430, and E700, so the order looks good. We've selected everything we want, and I think that looks pretty good. Then we’ll hit Select.
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We don’t want to hit Select until we know we have all of those sheets. It's one, two, three, four, five, six sheets selected. Click Select.
It will ask if you want to save these settings for a future Revit session. We’ll say no, because our next set will have different sheets. We’ll say no.
Then name the file BIM323_Midterm_FirstLast.
Do we want to combine the selected views and sheets into a single PDF file? Yes, we want it to be one PDF.
The file location can be anywhere you'd like on your computer. I'm going to save mine to My Documents, and that’s perfect. Now, this is pretty cool.
The size: we can use the sheet size. The sheet is already set up as an E1—that's perfect.
Set Zoom to 100%. That way, it’s scaled correctly. Paper placement should be set to 'Center, ' and we can leave everything else as is.
All these check marks look really good. All you need to do now is click the Export button and wait a moment.
Once it processes, you’ll see 'Ready' at the bottom for a moment. Then it goes away. Up here, if I browse to My Documents, which is where I saved mine—you can save yours wherever you'd like—it will make a PDF.
I can double-check that PDF by double-clicking it, opening it in Acrobat or Acrobat Reader (or whatever PDF reader you have on your computer), and take a look. We want to make sure there are multiple sheets included.
We've got our cover sheet—that looks good. We’ve got our electrical analysis sheet.
The third is our Lighting Plan – Level 1, followed by the Lighting Plan – Level 2.
We've got our enlarged plans. We've got our switchboard schedule and our one-line diagram. If we see all of those, we're good.
If not, we'll go back and re-export. Make sure to check the box for each sheet needed. Congratulations! It’s great to have the midterm done.
When you have your PDF, you can submit it to the class.
