Explore the meticulous process of creating and printing PDFs of A2.0, A2.2, A5.1, and A8.1 in a clear and concise manner. Learn the importance of double-checking and rectifying any graphic inconsistencies, adjusting grids and dimensions, and ensuring everything looks good before final printing.
Key Insights
- Thoroughly reviewing each sheet for any graphic inconsistencies and making necessary adjustments is a crucial step before printing, ensuring everything comes out as expected.
- Before printing, it's recommended to select the correct print driver, choose the sheets to print, and decide on whether to make one combined PDF or separate files. It's also possible to save a session for future use, particularly for projects that involve numerous sheets.
- After printing, a final review of the PDF is necessary to verify everything is correct. If any errors are spotted, it's advisable to fix them and reprint the document to ensure maximum possible points for the assignment.
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For your final submission, what I'd like you to do is print a PDF of A2.1, A2.2, A5.1, and A8.1. So that'll give us a good idea of how you've done going through the exercises here. And one of the things that's going to be really important is that you go through and you check each one of these sheets for any graphic inconsistencies. And so what I mean by that is we'll want to go in and double-check and make sure that even if there were things that were already drawn before, you've gone in and double-checked them.
Because one of the key components of this type of work is to make sure that you've gone in and double-checked, triple-checked, and even quadruple-checked the work that you've done so that everything comes out the way you're expecting it to. I've seen that I've lost a couple of dimensions here, and that's perfectly fine because we know how to add those back. So here you can see this used to be a continuous string.
And so I can use Edit Witness Lines to add it back and a combination of Tab to add this one back. Then I can add the overall back onto level two here. That'll give me the dimension string similar to what we have on level one.
I also adjusted the grids and dimensions, so that the section bubble wasn't overlapping. And I'll just give it a good review before I finally print the PDF. That was my review of A2.1. So I'll look at A2.2. I don't anticipate much going on here because we turned off so many different elements.
This one looks good. And then A5.1 we just created, we want to just double-check and make sure everything looks good.
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Looks good from here. And then A8.1, which is the one we just created as well, looks good and is ready to go. So at this point, the file is ready to be printed.
We'll go through that process of printing the PDF. We'll go to File, Print, and select Print here, and we'll make sure we're using the correct print driver. So this is one of the ones that we've made available in the Resources tab as a download link.
So you can grab that one from there. And then we want to pick the sheets that we want to print. So you can see I've selected Views and Sheets here.
I don't want them as separate files. So you can make one combined PDF, or if you want to do separate files, that's fine as well. But sometimes when you do multiple, you want to make sure it's just one.
Then we'll go ahead and uncheck Views here so that we can just select our Sheets. We don't need to see 2.01 again, so just the 2.1,2.2,5.1, and 8.1 here, and hit OK.
It's asking if you want to save this for a future session. It's only four sheets, so it's not that big of a deal. But if you wanted to—like if you had a project with 50 sheets that you were constantly having to redo, reselect, and all that—you can go ahead and say yes to this, and it would save a session for you.
So I can save this as "final." Then when I go in, I always have this option of "final, " which would select just the sheets that we're printing. The next thing we'll do, which we should already have set up because we set this up during our Midterm, is the 30 × 42 print setup.
And we want to make sure that Hide unreferenced view tags is selected, and we'll hit OK. And one thing you can do, since we don't have the option to preview, but I think we're pretty good, is you can always go back to Current View and preview the print. This is an option we'll get because of the settings we have on our sections and wall sections for the depth.
It's going to print in raster mode instead of vector mode, so it'll tell you that every time. Sheet looks good, so I'm going to hit Print. I'll hit OK to print it.
Oh, but before that, we need to go back to our selected views, make sure it's on Combine files. This is set to final, so we know it's going to print the set we asked it to, and we'll hit OK. Same warning we got before, and then you'll want to go through and save the file.
You want to use this browse option if you're using Bullzip or whatever PDF printer you're using, but you're going to want to save it into your Student Folder. What we'll do is we'll go ahead and call this one BIM with your first and last name as shown here, and we'll call it "final" so that we know it's your final exam you're uploading. And click Save.
Make sure everything is set correctly and click Save again. One thing when we're using raster is you might want to check and see what the image quality is going to be. Every PDF writer is a little different, so it's hard for me to go through that, but you want to make sure you have it at a higher quality so you get sharp line work. So I'm going to click Save again, and it'll create the PDF. When it's finished it'll pop up in your default PDF viewer, and this is your last chance to give it another review.
So I'm just going to scroll through and take a quick look, and honestly, if you notice something that should have been fixed, go ahead and correct it, then reprint because that's the best way to ensure you'll get the most possible points for your assignment. It looks pretty good. If you've got everything set up, this could be submitted as your final assignment.
I hope everybody learned a lot through this process. We have so much more to learn, which would continue on in the next series of Revit courses. As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to your Instructor.
