I use the Print Preview to see what my print will look like. BUT I routinely need to zoom in on something just to be sure everything looks good. But the "Zoom In" button only zooms in a very minimal amount.
My practice is NOT using Thin Lines if you want to see if something will look good on View/Sheet. Since the use of 3rd party software for bulk PDF/DWG/... "Print Preview" has been out of use for several years. This goes for our entire firm, the actual result, e.g. PDF is the only result that count. The time we generate a PDF vs a Print Preview, gives us the benefit, if the result is good you already have the end product.
Second, if you have a graphics card which is "a bit on the low side", Print Preview will not show as you want it, whereas the generated PDF will mostly be the result you want. In this case Zoom Window will not have any benefit at all.
The only use of Print Preview which is left to use is a "quick 'n dirty" printout of a partial View, since the not using Thin Lines gives me a very good idea what to expect on the printout.
Anonymous
10-11-201612:37 PM
10-11-201612:37 PM
In Autocad you can pan and zoom around in the print preview so it's actually usable. In Revit, it's almost not worth bothering because you get two levels of zoom and no panning. It's almost easier to just print to a PDF and see what it looks like...
We don't want (nor should we need) to install some 3rd party software to do this. And the overhead of creating a pdf file that I'll need to delete afterward is not ideal either.