Discover the step-by-step process of completing a midterm project in Revit, from naming items in your title block to printing and exporting the project as a PDF. An emphasis is placed on ensuring details are correctly filled and the final document is well-formatted and ready for submission.
Key Insights
- The article guides through filling details in the title block such as the owner name and project name, ensuring they are populated across all sheets.
- When ready to print the project, the article outlines the process to print as a PDF, highlighting the use of built-in PDF writers in Revit, and the importance of setting appropriate print settings.
- The workflow for exporting the printed project is also covered, focusing on the need to specify a save location and ensuring the exported file is correctly named before it is finally uploaded into the learning management system.
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We're ready to go ahead and finish up our midterm. So let's go ahead.
We're going to go ahead and name some of these items real quickly. Under owner, here's what I'd like for you to go ahead and do. So just click on your title block here on your sheet.
Under owner, go ahead and put in your name. So I'm going to put in mine. And then under Project Name, go ahead and put BIM 322 dash midterm.
And that will take care of that. Now that's going to populate on both sheets, both the second-floor plumbing and the first-floor plumbing sheets there. Let's go ahead and save.
And now we're ready to go ahead and print this. So I'm going to go up to File. I'm going to go to Print.
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You may have—I have CutePDF and Adobe PDF on my machine here. Also, Revit has a built-in PDF creator here.
We can actually go ahead, hit cancel. I'm going to go ahead and go File. I can go to Export.
Or you can go, I believe it's under manage. Not quite. It is somewhere up here on the ribbon, but we can just use the Export option there.
So I'm going to go File. I'm going to go to Export. I believe it's really just under export.
Create PDF is built into Revit. So what you want to go ahead and do is Current Window.
We're going to go selected views and sheets. I'm going to go ahead and edit this list. So right now we have nothing.
You can set up a display filter here. I'm going to go ahead and make sure that you uncheck it. If you want to see just sheets, you can have all sheets checked, and then you only see your sheets and no model views.
I'm going to go ahead and include those. I'm also going to go ahead and create a new empty set. Let's go ahead and name this Midterm.
You're going to have to recheck that. If you did that beforehand, it would stay checked, but we did it kind of a reverse order there. So Midterm, I'm going to go ahead and save the current set.
There we go. Everything else there is good. I'm going to go ahead and hit Select under our Export Setup here.
I'm going to use sheet size so I can use sheet size, or I know I'm using a 30 × 42, so I can select Arch U1. Go ahead and select it.
Make sure it's zoomed to 100 percent of size. You never want to print fit to page, just in case there's something floating off to the side. Orientation will be automatic, raster quality set to high, and color.
Everything else is good. There we go. I'm going to go ahead and hit Export.
We can go ahead and save those settings so we can go ahead and name it 30 × 42. Hit OK. That's so that we can use it later on.
And there we go. And it was saved. Let's go ahead.
Let's go back to File, Export. So the one difference with this here is that it's going to save based on this location here. It's not going to ask you for a location.
Sometimes with Bluebeam PDF, Adobe PDF, or CutePDF, whatever PDF writer you're using, it may have some item to where it's going to ask you where to save it. You'll need to specify that location here. So you can see it went to my documents folder.
I'm actually going to just reprint this real quick. I'm going to hit browse. I'm going to go ahead under Documents, then VDCI, my BIM 322.
We'll just save it right there. Open. Let's set the file name, and I'm going to add dash midterm.
So you want to make sure all that there is good. I'm going to hit export and there we go. And you've exported it.
So go ahead and make sure you upload your midterm into the learning management system and we'll see you in the next steps of the class. See you then.
