topic Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason in Revit Architecture Forum

Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:59:06 GMT

We're printing sheets of details and some views are printing as raster images instead of vector, leading to inconsistent graphics. We're getting the "Revit is going to use raster settings" warning box, but these details don't have shading, depth cueing, point clouds, gradients, or anything else that would typically trigger raster printing. I can't figure out what the issue is, as these views are all created the same way using the same view template.

Help! (Using Revit 2018, fyi)

Screenshots below:

Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

ToanDN — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 19:01:15 GMT

Ar those detail or drafting views?

Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 19:09:04 GMT

Detail views. Also happening in some sections as well.

Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

ToanDN — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 19:14:53 GMT

One reason could be they were created as Section View and Depth Cue is enabled. then later on, they were changed to Detail View, where Depth Cue is not available, but they still inherit the previous settings. To check that, change a view to Section view and inspect all the Graphics settings.

Another reason is a coordination Navis model is turned ON for those views.

Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 19:28:49 GMT

Problem solved, thank you!

There must have been some inherited graphics settings from the section view. I assumed that turning off depth cueing in the applied view template would have solved that, but it didn't.

Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

jeffmorris5837 — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 00:47:37 GMT

This is exactly what I just had to do with a Revit 2018.3.2 project. All sheets now print as "vector". Thank you for the posted solution.

Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

jbrr27 — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 17:04:36 GMT

I'm having this issue in Revit 2020, with elevations. None of these options are turned on. No links, no depth cueing, no shadows. The issue with details vs. sections wouldn't apply here. Any idea why I'm still getting this message? Shadows were turned on in the view template originally, but I turned them off. Is there some setting that's retained that is messing it up? I have to have a vector image as we're sending clients a PDF, and it looks like garbage with raster images.

Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

jbrr27 — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 18:16:12 GMT

Update: My elevations were on "shaded" (no shadows, just showing color). Changing them to hidden line meant I could print in vector mode. But I'm sure I've printed color elevations in shaded or realistic without having this problem before. Is this really not possible? That seems like a big issue.

Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

ToanDN — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 18:18:19 GMT

Try Consistent Colors visual style instead of Shade.

Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

jbrr27 — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 20:34:14 GMT

Thanks, that works. Do you know why it does when shaded doesn't?

Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

ToanDN — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 21:07:44 GMT

The only thing I know is that they are by design. Colors in shaded depend on lighting and orientation so they are raster.

Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

Anonymous — Wed, 20 May 2020 08:50:35 GMT

I've got the same issue

-happening in 2020,

-all are section views @1:10,

-no navisworks,

-no filters,

-no by element or by category overrides,

-all in hidden line

-all controlled by the same view template,

yet some views appear grey and rastered

the only thing i can thing of is this project has many ex-2018 (now upgraded) Revit links

any help appreciated,

thanks

Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:26:02 GMT

I`m having exactly the same problem.

Using 2020 Revit:

Sections, Elevations, Draft Elevation don`t print has a raster!

Already try to change the colour scheme, VG, repair Revit, uploads, etc, nothing worked yet...Anybody with a solution?

Do i need to uninstall Revit and install again?

Would appreciate some help...Thanks in advance!

Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 12:49:30 GMT

Did you set it to print to Vector?

Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 13:08:32 GMT

yes, set to print to vector

No navisworks
No depth cueing
No shadows
No shading
No point clouds
No coordination models

Happens in all Revit files not just the recent one
only prints in vector with hidden lines...

Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

ToanDN — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 01:01:12 GMT

Only print as vector in hidden lines? Which visual styles print as raster?

Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

redsWYYA5 — Tue, 07 May 2024 15:15:14 GMT

Ok, so I just wanted to add to this for the benefit of everyone else who didn't understand it. Here are the that steps I did when I solved the problem I was having.
1. Select view in Sheet, change the View Template to NONE from the Properties Bar.
2. Activate the View, change the Type from Detail View to Section View from the Properties Bar.
3. Click the Box Icon at the bottom panel and click "Graphics Display Button"

4. Change the settings that might be affecting the vector printing from here (transparency, gradient, etc.). For me it was the Depth Cueing ----it seems like this is checked off when the view is a Section type (might be aligned to what ToanDN mentioned).
5. Change the View to Detail View and then apply the correct View Template/

*note: It seems like there are some items in the view settings that even selecting a View Template will not prevent it from being overridden. Some settings remain in the non-template-ed "VV" settings of the view even when you apply a View Template to the view. Kind of similar to the cell settings in the schedules that the formatting remains the same even after a schedule template is applied to it.

Re: Unwanted raster printing - unknown reason

leanner — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:44:54 GMT

Thank you for the step by step instructions. Worked like a charm.