Drop shadow looking weird after printing.

[Anonymous]

My drop shadows look different between the elevation view and the printed PDF file. I'm attaching screen snips of both. I'm using Revit 2017. Has anyone experienced this problem before and do you have any tips on fixing it. I don't want to turn off shadows completely.

[Anonymous]

It is possible that it is your monitor settings that are showing the view lighter (or darker - you don't say which view is which).  Adjust your settings so that it prints the way you want, and adjust your monitor settings to suit.

[Anonymous]

I'm not talking about the lightness or darkness of the shadows. If you look on the left side of the buidling you will see that the shadows don't look whole, but rather fragmented and with a bunch of holes in them. It looks as if it took a bunch of elements and added only their shadows.

[Anonymous]

Does the fragmented view come from the PDF or the screen?

[Anonymous]

The fragmented view is the pdf, the normal looking one is the view. But when I zoom in deep into the view it fragments the shadows the same way they are fragmented in the pdf. 

[Anonymous]

It's possible that the view is corrupted.  You can try creating a new one and deleting that one to see if solves the issue.

[Viveka_CD]

Hi @Anonymous 

Can you share a file to test on our end and screencast of what you are trying to do?

Which version of Revit do you use?

Regards,

[Anonymous]

I will lose a lot of linework and things I added to the view if I delete it and start again. Also I doubt it's the view itself. I'm sorry, but I can't do a screencast. I will upload the screenshots again and try to put a bit more explanation inside of them so that you can understand what my point is exactly.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Well create a new view anyway to confirm if it is the issue or not.  You should be able to copy the linework to the new view if this is the case.

[Anonymous]

Hey, I'm sorry I doubted you it actually fixed the shadows when I copied the view. Now I just need to add the lines do some invisible lines and it's all set. Thanks for the help, if the problem shows up again in the future (hope it won't) I will keep you posted.

[Anonymous]

You should be able to select everything in the view and filter out detail items and lines.  Copy and paste these into your new view.

[Anonymous]

Yeah I did that, but I still needed to do some invisible lines, but it took about 20-30 minutes of work so it's all fine. Thank you for the help, much appreciated.