Explore the step-by-step process for combining multiple selected views into a single PDF file. Learn how to select sheets, change settings and set up your PDF printer for efficient file printing.
Key Insights
- The process involves selecting the PDF printer and then choosing the option to combine multiple selected views into one file. This way, you receive a single file that you can use for submission.
- Settings should be adjusted to ensure the file is printed properly, such as setting the zoom to 100% size and making sure it is centered. Additionally, it is recommended to hide unreferenced view tags for a cleaner look.
- Before finalizing the print job, it is advisable to do a quick scan of each sheet to ensure everything looks as expected. If there are any issues, they should be corrected in the model before reprinting the PDF.
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The process we use for printing to PDF has not really changed, and so we're just going to go through with the same thing. I'll set to my PDF printer here. I want to make sure that I have it doing combined multiple selected views into a single file, so I get one file that I can submit for this.
And then I'm going to go ahead and pick all of my sheets. And so I'll select here. I always uncheck views so that I can just see my sheets.
And then we're going to submit all of the sheets here, so I want to select them all and then hit OK. It's asking me if I want to save it, and I'm going to say no this time because we don't need to save it for anything. And then we'll go ahead and we'll pick our setup.
And so if we have a default one selected already, which we don't have one that we've saved, so we have to pick the settings now. And so we're looking for E1. And then I want to set this to zoom so that it is 100% size and then make it center here.
The other thing that we want to make sure we're doing is that we're hide unreference view tags so that we don't see those extra sections or elevations or anything else that you may have created. And then I'll hit OK. And now we've got all the settings correct.
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We can go ahead and hit OK. If you wanted to, you can always do a preview by changing this to current window and then hitting preview. When we print graphics like this, it's going to want to do raster printing instead of vector printing, so it's always going to give you this warning here unless you check that box.
And so this is what my view is going to look like. And so I just hit escape and then I can enter the print dialog box again. And then I can just check to see those are my sheets.
Looks good. This looks good here. These settings look appropriate for our print.
And then I can hit OK and it'll go through the process of printing all of those sheets to PDF. My PDF printer is going to pop up a dialog box, and so I just want to save this into my class files. And so we'll use the same nomenclature we did before, but instead of first last, we'll go ahead and call instead of first last midterm, we're going to say first last final.
So first last is your first and last name. And then we'll just hit save and then we'll go ahead and hit save again and it'll pull up the PDF when it's done. My PDF has finished printing, and so I can just kind of take a look at it and then I'll go ahead and just do a quick scan of each of the sheets to make sure everything looks the way I want it to.
And this is the point when if you see something you don't like, then you want to take note of it, correct it in the model, and then reprint the PDF because it's just better to make sure that you've got the right looking views now than to submit something that you know you could have easily corrected. One of the things it'll do is it'll start to show the elevations kind of light from far away, but you'll notice as I zoom in on it, they actually don't look that light. They actually look pretty good.
So keep that in mind. Sections look good. And that would be our final PDF for BIM 302.
