i want to print halftone

i want to print halftone

Dougd9HQTL
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i want to print halftone

Dougd9HQTL
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hello, unlike people who have problems with things printing halftone when they do not want them to, i actually WANT to print a whole set in halftone to be used as sketching underlays. my boss does not want to have to go into individual views to change them all to half-tone. he just wants to print the whole set that way, preferable with thin lines as well.

 is this a function of the print driver or settings or am i missing something here? he says that in Autocad, you simpley change the pen set and you can print the whole set easily a certain way. he wants the same functionality in Revit

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ToanDN
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There should be a setting in your PDF printer to output as halftone.

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barthbradley
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Printing with thin lines is not possible. You will need to override all categories to use #1 lineweights through VGOs. 

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Dougd9HQTL
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thank you for your response. Revit 2023 has a built-in pdf export function, and i cannot find any settings on printing halftone or with thin lines. Some of the cheaper or free pdf print drivers are really basic and bare bones. do you have any suggestions on which softer to try or use?

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ToanDN
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@Dougd9HQTL wrote:

thank you for your response. Revit 2023 has a built-in pdf export function, and i cannot find any settings on printing halftone or with thin lines. Some of the cheaper or free pdf print drivers are really basic and bare bones. do you have any suggestions on which softer to try or use?


I take it back.  I couldn't find the settings on any PDF printers I use.  

As a workaround, you can export to DWG and print DWG sheets in AutoCAD to halftone (via plot styling).

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Dougd9HQTL
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i also see that in your example you changed the VG on the sheet, but view templates do not apply to sheets, only to views. also, changing the VG settings on a sheet change only the items not in views inserted on the sheet. therefore i would STILL have to into every single view on every single sheet and repeat the process dozens if not hundreds of times.

 

SURELY i am not the only one who needs to print sheets from a set, or the whole set as a halftone or "thirdtone) for a designer to use as a background for sketching of design changes....   it is RIDICULOUS that lowly autoCAD has a super easy way to do this by changing pen sets to a 40 or 50% shade for the plot, NOT forcing someone to go into a hours long ordeal of changing view properties instead of being able to change the PLOT properties instead. think of it as a Master plot override that EASILY allows you to plot a whole set (including title blocks etc) as a halftone, or as a different color.

 

Come on people, surely i am not the only one who sees the logic of this possibility

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barthbradley
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@Dougd9HQTL wrote:

i also see that in your example you changed the VG on the sheet, but view templates do not apply to sheets

 

You're quite right, but that wasn't the point. Apply View Template to All Views was the point. Did you read the information I provided a Link to?  

 

 

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Dougd9HQTL
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my apologies, no i did not read it yet...  would you still have to open each sheet and do the apply to all views thing page by page?  i will have to study that link more carefully. thank you

 

 

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barthbradley
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@Dougd9HQTL wrote:

my apologies, no i did not read it yet...  would you still have to open each sheet and do the apply to all views thing page by page?  i will have to study that link more carefully. thank you

 

 


 

No, that isn't entirely true.  Read the information I provided.  

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barthbradley
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Just swinging back by to drop this link off as well:

 

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/Revit-C...

 

Maybe it's useful, maybe it's not. Just anticipating the typical follow question.  😉  

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