Fill Patterns Printing Errors Revit 2019

[Anonymous]

Dear Autodesk,

Can someone please help me?

I have a color fill / legend for a plan view.  The live view graphics look fine.  I go to print (used both Cute PDF and Adobe) and the fill is overtaking the wall boundary.   It has to be a printing issue.  Are there changes in 2019?  I have used versions 10 - 19  (I skipped versions 15 and 18 tho because those were problematic and basically garbage releases).  I have worked professionally with autodesk since 1999 (cad v. 14 - 2016) 

I have tried just about everything:   

Raster and Vector (doesn't impact issue, raster makes the print quality worse / pixelated)

Print Driver is compatible and working well otherwise, no other printing issues

Display Model Fine, Normal, Coarse (Coarse is what I need, doesn't impact issue)

Color Scheme Location Background (This does impact the issue, but only on my live view / screen.  It is having no impact on the final PDF print)

The fill is associated with a Area Boundary.  I turned 'on' the Model Category Visibility of Areas to both Color Fill and Interior Fill.  If I check only Color Fill, the Boundary overlaps the wall, and negates the wall fill pattern filter.  If I turn Interior Fill only on, I loose the Area Boundary fill.  The legend still reads but the fill does not.    If I check mark both Color and Interior Fill on I get the exact result I need (although NOT intuitive at all, and there is no "help" or "tip" on this) - The Interior fill 'crops' the color fill pattern to the interior wall boundary.  I can then see my exterior wall filter pattern perfectly. 

No, I can't print directly from Revit 2019 to a full size paper.  We have no full size plotter.  No one in  a small studio does this anymore Autodesk.  We need a direct export to PDF INCLUDED in our very expensive subscription (or something that works well with this software that you created  and now we can't seem to work in this profession without).  I prefer Cute PDF.  It is the least disruptive to my fonts and other graphics.  I have too many problems with Adobe creating substitutions and visual artifacts that are not there.  (Adobe thinks its smarter than me.  It is not.)

Yes I have filters (wall type pattern (s) , and a view template, because that is what i need to create these plans and should be how I control the graphics for the views). 

Please help.

Thank you-

mie

p.s. see attached graphic example (screen capture) and print (waste and garbage print)

[Viveka_CD]

Hi @Anonymous

Can you share the file and a data-set for further diagnosis?

Revit - Collecting and sending diagnostic data to Autodesk Technical Support

Regards,

[fantastic_amr]

  hello and thank you for your concern in advance i was having the same problem with revit 2019 and have searched for a solution to it for 2 days now and can`t seem to find any suitable solution in any place in the internet , and to demonstrate all the problem aspects here is it 

- The (VG) visibility graph under -room  -color fill is marked and nothing else in room is  marked

-the scheme definition is set to fill pattern for floor finish under the category room name 

have the same problem when printing to pdf and i did trey 4 pdf creator with revit till now the problem doesnt show in one situation when i export to cad all the hatch in the file is shown as it is in the revit view port 

need a solution for this problem and would be glad to show you any data you need to solve it and will attache a link for the file that have this problem the file that have the problem in all FP view

[Viveka_CD]

Hi @fantastic_amr 

Can you confirm if you have the latest updates installed for Revit 2019?

Regards,

[Anonymous]

thank you for the help - mdn

[Viveka_CD]

Hi @Anonymous 

Could you share the file with us to test further?

Thanks,

[fantastic_amr]

sorry for the delay  i have revit 2019 v 19.0.0.405 

[Viveka_CD]

@fantastic_amr 

Thanks for responding.

Can you share the file to test further?

Regards,

[AFatRat]

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles...

I assume you're using a color scheme for your fill patterns. If so, it's a known issue that is present in 2018 as well. However, when I set the fill pattern location to background and print in raster it shows correctly. It just looks like trash. Also, printing directly to a printer doesn't change anything. If it shows incorrectly in the print preview, it's going to print incorrectly, regardless of the printer.

[Viveka_CD · Accepted solution]

Thanks @AFatRat 

@Anonymous  and @fantastic_amr 

I looked into this incident and it is currently being investigated for a possible cause and resolution.

Please watch this article shared by @AFatRat for further updates.

Color Fill with fill pattern does not print correctly in Revit

Regards,

[N.Looney]

solution...?