Printing draw order on vector is wrong

[ryley.g.h]

At our office we have a lot of trouble with Revit printing. We seem to have this issue: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Draw-ord...

Currently using 2022.1, and the Diroots plugin to print our files.

The suggested change to raster printing works, and corrects the draw order, but it makes our files so large that some building departments refuse to accept them! Because they are rastered, once they are compressed a lot of the quality is lost, and things become pixilated. Is there any better solution to this issue, or perhaps a different plugin that will generate correct looking PDF's if plotted as vectors?

Here is our Diroots print settings:

We have found that anything less than Presentation quality produces low quality prints that again, are all pixilated.

[RSomppi]

Start with the root of the problem.

What is it about the draw order that you are trying to overcome?

[ToanDN]

Have you tried Revit native Export to PDF tool?

Can you share a sample model with the issue?  I can't tell from the total of 12 pixels in the referenced article.

[barthbradley]

The second suggested workaround is asinine.  Use the Linework tool?  WTF?  

Thanks for posting that article.  Someone else on this forum recently posted about having the same issue.  

[ryley.g.h]

There are multiple examples of this happening, but the one that is most noticeable would be curbs along walls. We model a 6" tall by 6" wide curb along an exterior wall with a floor. We prefer this to a sweep because it's easier to phase sections of a floor for existing/demolition/new as we repair parts of the curb.

Office standards for existing exterior walls is a grey, solid infill with solid black cut lines, and the existing curb is just grey solid lines as it isn't being cut through.

Image 1 vector print:

Image 2 Raster print:

Image 3 vector print:

You can really see the issue in image 3, as only one side of the wall has a curb, the interior portion of the wall is the intended solid black line, while the portion of wall with a curb we are leaving existing to remain looses this solid black line.

[ryley.g.h]

I found the line work tool suggestion funny too... it's like telling us to use Revit as if it were AutoCAD....

[ryley.g.h]

Thanks for suggestion, but didn't work...

[ToanDN]

Here is a PDF printed using Bluebeam with Line Merge. 

But I agree with you that the way Revit printing halftone and colors over black is just dumb.  They ought to fix it.

[ryley.g.h]

I'm not familiar with blue beam. Did you print from Revit using bluebeam, or did you do this after printing a vector pdf from Revit?

[ToanDN]

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@ryley.g.h wrote:

I'm not familiar with blue beam. Did you print from Revit using bluebeam, or did you do this after printing a vector pdf from Revit?

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I printed it from Revit to Bluebeam PDF printer.

[emodderman]

Ultimately, I've been informed that the development team is aware of it and they're still working on a solution. No timeline is available, so my guess is it's pretty low priority at this point.