Revit. Sheet Export 5.0. Export instead of printing, export to project folder, new printing algorithms and other features
Introducing a major and important update to the Sheet export plugin version 5.0!
In this update you can expect:
- split into two versions
- quick plugin launch
- export to project folder
- improved printing algorithm with color exclusion
Read more about these and other changes below
Exporting instead of printing
Until today's release, the plugin performed export to pdf via print. However, as of version 2022, export to pdf has already been added to Revit itself. We didn't redesign the plugin for a long time, because there was a possibility that the changes would be so large that we would have to make two different plugins. We even planned to split the help into two on the site. But everything turned out well and the plugin versions are almost identical in appearance. In the plugin version for 2022 version and above there will be no printer settings, custom print formats and compression of pdf file.
New printing algorithms
While developing the version with export instead of print, we came up with new algorithms for the print version as well. If you are using Revit 2019-2021, we have good news for you - now there will be no option in the plugin to select the format detection algorithm and there will be no long plugin startup when selecting the “By Content” algorithm! Now the plugin will start quickly in any project!
Moreover - the updated algorithms for both the print and export versions can now export sheets with several Title Blocks arranged vertically. And not just vertically - but with any arrangement on the sheet at all. The only nuance that remains unresolved is that if there are a lot of Title Blocks on a sheet, the resulting pdf file may have a small offset error along the sheet edges. In this case, unfortunately, no ideal solution could be found. But to be fair - sheets with a lot of Title Blocks are incorrectly exported by Revit itself.
But that's not all! Previously, when printing a pdf of a sheet with several Title Blocks, it was necessary for the printer to have a format that would accommodate all the Title Blocks. Now this is no longer necessary and it is enough to have a format that fits the Title Block. And even if there is no such format, the nearest larger format will be selected and the pdf file will be trimmed to fit the Title Block!
Printing with color exclusion
We are glad to announce that we have finally found a solution for printing with color exclusion. Previously, the problem was that the algorithm turned any colored pixel into a black one. Thus, for example, room fills turned into black shapes. But now color processing has become much more efficient and such fills will become gray with different shades. In general, if you had printing problems with color exclusion, be sure to try the new version!
Other features
And in a little less detail, let's list other important and useful changes:
- The current sheet is now marked bold in the sheet tree. As in the Project Browser.
- If more than one document is read, the number of checked sheets will be displayed in the document headers. It will also be possible to exclude any document:
- Added ability to export sheets using the project location folder as the export destination folder:
- Added option with behavior after export to settings:
- Added ability to display sheet name by mask directly in the sheet tree:
- Added ability to use sheet parameters in the merged file name mask.
- Added possibility to check (select for export) sheets by filter by parameters. In this case you can select sheets in all open documents at once:
- Added possibility to set file name mask and merged file name mask by organization settings. Let's say a little more detail here - initially we planned to make it possible to set the entire configuration by organization settings, as it is done in other plugins. But after analyzing the settings, we came to the conclusion that too many settings should not be set centrally. So we decided to add overriding of only certain settings on request. And just now we had a request to override the file name mask.
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