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Vector shadows in hidden line prints

Is possible for either:

 

a) either a vector shadow output in hidden line view, or

 

b) the shadows to be raster underlayed behind a vector drawing? (my current workaround being a duplicated drawing behind with lines etc overridden)

 

Cheers!

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Advocate
Advocate

Everything should output as vector - there really isn't a reason Revit shouldn't be able to do it, as at least one of its competitors can...

Anonymous

Ability export Views e. g. to DWG or PDF in vector format when Shadows is enebled. 

Advocate
Advocate

Little update, workaround b) doesn't work in 2017 or 2017.1 as if a sheet has any view that needs to be rasterised on it, it will rasterise the entire sheet - apparently a bug that isn't going to be fixed until 2018(?!) 

Anonymous

Revit should at least be able to combine vector lines with raster in printings (PDF prints in realistic style). This is a wish of our customer "Obermeyer Planen+Beraten GmbH".

Advocate
Advocate

Just want to give this a little bump again - the raster issue is a big problem, and needs to be addressed. Renderings are really the only thing in Revit that should ever output as raster, everything else should be all vector all the time (ie, shadows, shaded views, etc).

 

Also, if something in a view has to be rasterized (say, a point cloud, maybe), it shouldn't cause everything else to be rasterized in that view, and especially not on an entire sheet (and really, point clouds should be able to be vectored as well...).

Anonymous

Hey guys, I have the same issue!! My major concern is that you can't link these elevations with bluebeam and snap to do estimating. However you can on ArchiCAD for like for like settings. Check out my feedback here.

 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/fixing-shadowing-issues/idi-p/8448400

Participant
Participant

This has been on my wishlist since I started using Revit in 2011.

Contributor
Contributor

Serious Autocad? No vector shadows 10 years after? 

Explorer
Explorer

People at Autodesk, please ask Graphsoft (Archicad) how to do this.    I have been asking this since 2010!!! 

Explorer
Explorer

I can't believe this still is not possible. It really makes elevation view with shadows subpar, no matter the settings.

Simply not acceptable knowing the technology exists.

 

Advocate
Advocate

Someone has probably posted this before, but we need to be able to print vector PDF's when shadows are turned on. The PDF quality is too low with the raster prints which defeats the purpose of using shading.

Advocate
Advocate

Is this perhaps a limitation of the Postscript format that is used for PDFs ?

I haven't seen an example of vector PDF with shadows before -- does the Magratheans great creation Archicad manage this feat ?

Explorer
Explorer

It would be huge improvement for Revit: ability to have elevations, sections and site plans printed out to pdf not as pixel image but entirely vector, with customisable hatches for shadows.

Explorer
Explorer

As long as we are asking for raster shadows to be printed with vector linework, can we include color as well?  Those nice, crisp lines over a drawing with both color and shadows will really help to communicate the design to the owners, AHJ and contractors.

Contributor
Contributor

2023 and we still with the raster shadows....  

All the competition has this for ages!!! 

 

 

Explorer
Explorer

Please... the size of the planes with shadows is unmanageable

Observer
Observer

Archicad has vectorial shadows since forever, why can't Revit do something about this??? It'a 2024 jesus

Observer
Observer

Common Autodesk! Archicad has this feature since like forever! This should be number 1 priority feature, it's 2024 jesus

Explorer
Explorer

V2025 without vector shadows? really?...

Explorer
Explorer

MADE WITH REVIT 2019

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SAME FILE OPENED WITH REVIT 2025

aa.png

 

THANKS AUTODESK (ironic mode on)... of course, neither vector shadows...

Contributor
Contributor

R2025 still no vector shadows.

Explorer
Explorer

I'm not just talking about the shadows, but about the different realistic visualization of the same file in different versions of Revit

Community Visitor
Community Visitor

Really poor that this is still not available.  Please autodesk fix this.  It is already difficult enough to make revit drawings look nice, but having to raster when we need shadows to show depth on elevations is really terrible.

Observer
Observer

Everything should have a vector export option!