topic Re: How can I print the view name on the view itself? in Revit Architecture Forum

How can I print the view name on the view itself?

dc — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 21:30:17 GMT

I know how to get the view name on the sheet, no problem. My question is about showing the view name on the view itself. My workflow sometimes involves printing some views and schedules, so I can see them all together on individual sheets. I sit at a big table away from the computer, compare details among all the views and mark them up with a pencil. When finished, I either perform the edits at the computer or have it done. The problem is the time-waster of hand-printing the view names on the printed sheets so I can keep track of them. Today I have thirty-plus sheets. I would like to paste a family in the view. Even better if I could associate the family visibility to a global parameter to shut them all off when printing sheets. Any ideas? Thanks.

Re: How can I print the view name on the view itself?

barthbradley — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:17:03 GMT

@dc wrote:
I know how to get the view name on the sheet, no problem. My question is about showing the view name on the sheet itself.

I'm confused. Your question is about how to show the view name on the sheet, yet you say you know how to get the view name on the sheet.

Re: How can I print the view name on the view itself?

martijn_pater — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 09:31:53 GMT

I think you will have to use a generic annotation and enter the view name manually or using Dynamo.

Re: How can I print the view name on the view itself?

martijn_pater — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 09:49:47 GMT

A generic annotation family that is, with an instance parameter in label for the view name to input manually/using Dynamo. You could add a visibility parameter in the family and associate that to a global on/off parameter in type properties (right click in project browser).

Re: How can I print the view name on the view itself?

hmunsell — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 12:51:32 GMT

for schedules its easy, include the Title Text and that is the name of the schedule...
for views you will need to create a Generic annotation like @martijn_pater suggested and use a dynamo script, or some other method, to read the View Name parameter of the view or enter it in manually.

Re: How can I print the view name on the view itself?

ToanDN — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 01:33:20 GMT

- Export all the views you want to DWGs
- Batch Print in AutoCAD, enable Plot Stamp and add Drawing name

Re: How can I print the view name on the view itself?

RDAOU — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 10:05:32 GMT

@dc

It depends on the PDF Editor you are using...some commercial editors support adding/printing Tokens and Metadata allowing user to add stamps to PDF documents such as Path/File Name/Date/Author....etc

From Revit Print Menu, select "Create Separate Files." Appends view name to the specified file name...then from the PDF Editor you can add the stamp (in this case the file name - view name)

ALTERNATIVELY

You can write your own C# to stamp PDF automatically or you can download a free one similar to the one shown below

Re: How can I print the view name on the view itself?

stanfordG8BUY — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:54:25 GMT

Unfortunately no way to do this within Revit. Revit does retain the view names when exporting views as an images. Then it is possible to print images from another program that gives you the option to print with names. Windows 10, Lightroom and Picasa all have this feature.

Re: How can I print the view name on the view itself?

dc — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 10:54:02 GMT

Typo. Thanks for spotting it. I meant on the view itself .

Re: How can I print the view name on the view itself?

RSomppi — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:52:17 GMT

It appears to be an extremely intermittent issue since it took almost two years to get a clarification.