Unlimited printing loop

[Anonymous]

I have met this situation for 3 times. I print all my drawings from revit model. I used Bluebeam plotter to print out as a pdf. The computer will run all the pages that in my drawing set and combine them into 1 file. however one the window pops out asking me where to save it. I finish saving the file. The computer automaticly run all the pages again try to print out the file again. Once save this file for 2 time however it started save all the pages again. I can hit esc to stop that. however all these 3 times, revit just crashed and pop out a window asking me if debug the program.

Need help for this.

Thank you very much.

[Anonymous]

Have you checked your Print settings? Make sure the "Combine multiple selected views/sheets into a single file" is selected.

 

[ToanDN]

@Anonymous

Make sure the active drawing is not schedule view.  Might as well close everything except for one Sheet.

[Anonymous]

All the drawings are in sheet format. Every time I try to print them out, I just close all the windows except one view due to the heavy model. I couldn't find out why cause this problem. And it happened again last night. Will update once I find any clue on this.

[ToanDN]

What is the view you left open when print?

[Anonymous]

The start view with project information, project name, location and etc. I suspect that this problem relates to the number of the sheets you try to print. It works fine when the number of print sheets is lower than 15. Every time I try to print over 20 sheets, Revit will loop over again and again.

[ToanDN]

It could be.  What are you printing to?  A printer or PDF?

[Anonymous]

PDF. try to print the document to pdf. The plotter I am using is Bluebeam.

[andybrack]

I'm going back a little on this one, but I seem to recall that there was a bug a far up as Revit 2015 with the behavior you describe.  It had to do with the active view window prior to hitting File (Big Blue R)--> Print.  Before you do that, open a printable view such as your level 1 floor plan and click inside the view.  The old forum thread can be found here:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/printing-to-pdf-problem/td-p/3169354

I haven't been experiencing this problem in Revit 2017.

-Andy Brack