Discover the importance of quality control (QC) before printing your work in this class-oriented article. Learn how to use the provided checklist, double-check keynotes, and correct any discrepancies, before creating a combined PDF of all your sheets for final submission.
Key Insights
- This article emphasizes the significance of thorough QC before printing, using a checklist to ensure all necessary elements have been included and executed correctly.
- Corrections may be needed, especially in areas such as keynotes and graphics. The article advises a meticulous review and necessary adjustments to ensure all details are accurate.
- Final submission involves creating a combined PDF of all sheets. The article guides through the process of printing all sheets, saving them as a set, and ensuring correct print settings before exporting.
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So as you go through and do your final QC before we print, what you'll want to do is take a look at the checklist that was provided on the Resources tab. And there are just a lot of items that I see students making mistakes with in previous courses. And so I just wanted to get in front of it for this class.
So before you print or after you print, you'll want to go through and just double-check to make sure that all of these items have been taken care of, which most of them have because we did a lot of this in the class together, but just double-checking to make sure that it's done. Checking for these graphics—a lot of this is low-hanging fruit stuff that I will mark up on the midterm and final reviews. And then just double-checking to make sure you've got the Keynotes and everything entered correctly.
When we go through—and let's say we'll just cherry-pick one on A601. If we look at our Keynotes just really quickly, you can see that I've got a weird one here: F07 Urinal Floor Plan. And we know that we have that because when we look at our Keynote file, there was not a tab, or a tab wasn't added, or a tab was added twice or something in our Keynote file.
We can open up that Keynote file and then make any changes that we need to get that corrected. And so what I'll do is look at my Floor Plan notes, and I can see here that it says Urinal Space Tab Floor Plan. We just have a little bit of extra text in there that needs to go away, and I'll go ahead and save that.
We can close that one, and then I just need to reload the file and we're ready to print. We'll use the same process that we have in previous videos, but we're going to use Export to PDF because that will allow us to create a combined PDF of all of our sheets. We can say Selected Views or Sheets, then we can pick the sheets that we want to print.
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What I'll do is have it only show the sheets here, and then I'm going to print all of these sheets. So I’m going to hit Check All. And if you wanted to, what we could do is set this as a Print Set. If I hit Save As right here, I can call this one BIM 303 Final.
And so anytime I go to print now, this is what will be selected—all 19 of these sheets. It's odd that it asks if you want to save this since that’s what we just did, but we can go ahead and then choose where we want to save it. And then once you’ve got it in the right folder, you just go ahead and click Open to save it in that location.
This will be your file name, and then we’ll double-check to make sure that we have the right settings for our print. We want to use the Sheet Size for those settings, but we want to make sure that we’re zooming to 100% here so that it does print to scale. The other thing—if you created many elevations or sections that weren’t necessarily placed on views—you’re going to want to go ahead and check this Hide Unreferenced View Tags because otherwise those are just going to show up everywhere.
And then everything else should be good here, so we're going to hit Export. It’ll ask if we want to save it because we can use an Export Setup here, but I'm going to say no because we only made a couple of changes there. And then we’ll let it print.
So mine took a few minutes to print, and it gave me the typical error about raster images because we are printing both vector and raster images here—and that's no big deal. Then we just take a look at it once you’ve got it printed, and I’ll open it up. You just always want to do that last scan-through because there could be a couple of things that you could correct that could total up to be a lot of points. Just keeping in mind—this is BIM 303, it’s towards the end of your Revit training here—so I will be looking at this pretty closely, and we just want to make sure everything comes out good and is something that you’d want to be proud of and representative of.
And generally it looks good. So once you’ve completed your QC, go ahead and get that submitted as your final. If you’re looking for additional things to do to keep practicing, you can always lay out another one of the tenant suites that we’ve developed.
There are four suites in the building, and you can use any of those as additional practice. Or you could look at how you could potentially render some of these 3D views based on some of the skills that you learned in BIM 301. I hope you enjoyed the class—it’s a little more challenging and includes a lot more of the base production work as we continue to evolve in our Revit training, but these are all skills that are needed to complete projects successfully within an office.
Thanks for joining, and I hope you take a look at some of the other courses that are available.
