topic Re: Unlimited printing loop in Revit Architecture Forum

Unlimited printing loop

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 22:15:28 GMT

I have met this situation for 3 times. I print all my drawings from revit model. I used Bluebeam plotter to print out as a pdf. The computer will run all the pages that in my drawing set and combine them into 1 file. however one the window pops out asking me where to save it. I finish saving the file. The computer automaticly run all the pages again try to print out the file again. Once save this file for 2 time however it started save all the pages again. I can hit esc to stop that. however all these 3 times, revit just crashed and pop out a window asking me if debug the program.

Need help for this.

Thank you very much.

Re: Unlimited printing loop

Anonymous — Tue, 02 May 2017 22:25:14 GMT

Have you checked your Print settings? Make sure the "Combine multiple selected views/sheets into a single file" is selected.

Re: Unlimited printing loop

ToanDN — Tue, 02 May 2017 22:52:09 GMT

@Anonymous

Make sure the active drawing is not schedule view. Might as well close everything except for one Sheet.

Re: Unlimited printing loop

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:39:15 GMT

All the drawings are in sheet format. Every time I try to print them out, I just close all the windows except one view due to the heavy model. I couldn't find out why cause this problem. And it happened again last night. Will update once I find any clue on this.

Re: Unlimited printing loop

ToanDN — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:48:08 GMT

What is the view you left open when print?

Re: Unlimited printing loop

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:53:17 GMT

The start view with project information, project name, location and etc. I suspect that this problem relates to the number of the sheets you try to print. It works fine when the number of print sheets is lower than 15. Every time I try to print over 20 sheets, Revit will loop over again and again.

Re: Unlimited printing loop

ToanDN — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 22:11:11 GMT

It could be. What are you printing to? A printer or PDF?

Re: Unlimited printing loop

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 22:15:09 GMT

PDF. try to print the document to pdf. The plotter I am using is Bluebeam.

Re: Unlimited printing loop

andybrack — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 22:36:38 GMT

I'm going back a little on this one, but I seem to recall that there was a bug a far up as Revit 2015 with the behavior you describe. It had to do with the active view window prior to hitting File (Big Blue R)--> Print. Before you do that, open a printable view such as your level 1 floor plan and click inside the view. The old forum thread can be found here:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/printing-to-pdf-problem/td-p/3169354

I haven't been experiencing this problem in Revit 2017.

-Andy Brack