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This can be done in 2016 version too. The intention of my original post was that it is too cumbersome and adding a print window selection tool would simplify matters tenfold.
This work around to print "window" will no longer work with 2019. With the tabs, you can't change the view size. So not only have they not added a print window functionality, they took away the one work around that we did have!!
I have only found 2 ways to untab a view, have multiple views open and tile them, and to drag the view to another monitor. either way, its a work around to get to a work around.
@RichConyers If you print to a scale, it will still print outside of the window if it will fit on the paper or it will zoom in more if the paper is not large enough. Fit to Page will print exactly what is on the screen/window.
@beriock This isn't a workaround....it is how Revit has worked for years. If you are just used to AutoCAD and ArchiCAD then I can see that you think it is. But Revit is not either one of those programs so it has a different UI on how things work. Also, just drag the tab down...it doesn't have to go to another screen.
I am familiar how revit works, have been using it since release 2. Just because that is how something is, doesn't mean it isn't a problem. and yes it is a work around. just about all of the programs that i use have had a "get window" "print window" for well over a decade except Revit.
This is obviously an issue as multiple people are complaining about the functionality. The print to visible is not accurate. That is literally the complaint of this thread. @mpwuzhere, if you have an actual solution please contribute, but if you're just here to tell people they don't know how a program works because they would prefer it work better, then your comments are not relevant to the thread.
@RichConyers how is it not accurate? If I print to a specific scale to a certain size sheet it will print just that centered on what my window is set at. Technically I don't have to change the window itself, as it just grabs the window and I zoom in on where it wants to be. It will print with a priority of what is centered in my view to what the paper size is.
Printing to a regular full size sheet, then zooming in on a plan and printing at 200%(1:50), then zooming in and printing just the room legend scaled to fit. It does what it is supposed to do.
Now...if the complaint is that it still prints outside of the crop region/window...well yeah, a window is endless, there are no boundaries. You are printing a window. The only way you can print "exactly what is shown on the window" is "fit to page" then what's the point in that? It's not to scale and you are better off using the snipping tool.
@beriock...Version 2 eh? And you didn't know about this? Revit was its own program back then, not even Autodesk related except for the fact that the designers used ADT. It couldn't look exactly like other programs, Autodesk would have sued for copyright infringement. Look at ArchiCAD, it doesn't have a "print to window" either. You have to create a flashing crop region and print to the region.
But it has been almost exactly 2 years since this idea was submitted and it has only 200 votes and still "gathering support"...well, it had 199, I just evened it out with my vote. I don't see this one making the Road Map...surprised it is still open.
We the people want to print a window within 1 second. We don't want to play around with minimizing and resizing windows. The video illustrates more perfectly than I could describe the cumbersomeness of the workaround. And I very definitely consider it a workaround.
EXACTLY! Sometimes I only want a small portion so I can write in the margins. Sometimes it's hard to get it centered just right. How difficult is this concept to understand?
This is been asked for a number of times on AUGI and probabably a million other times on other revit forums..... Just saying first time was almost 15 years ago!!!!!! Much needed feature
Thank you all for your feedback. We have a dedicated team looking at the issues.
If you can also share screencasts, comparable images and what feature you are looking for, or anything additional to help the print job, that would greatly benefit and help push this idea.
Here's one example of where a Print Window would be useful:
I want to show a client a PDF of the elevations of all 4 walls in a Room.
I already have a Sheet full of Interior Elevations. All 4 of the Elevations are on the Sheet right next to each other.
I can't place those 4 Elevations on another Sheet without either taking them off the Sheet, or Duplicating the Views.
I "could use the "Print Visible portion" print option, but if I do, I also get all the other Views on that Sheet - or at least what fits on the "page size". That is confusing to the client, and also looks unprofessional. The "extra" views nearly always get chopped off where they hit the margins
@Viveka_CD It seems incredibly clear that not only are a vast number of people seeking this solution (ironically not a new solution, one that already exists in AutoCAD) but they have been asking almost since Revit was released. Is there someone who would make a direct statement about where this solution is on the road map and why an already existing Autodesk solution is taking so long to make it into a parrallel program (at least regarding printing).
Thank You for your responses, I'm sure we are all glad this is getting some attention.
Print window(Bottom Left) screen shot below from AutoCAD . Also need the Plot scale feature(Middle bottom) so a 1:100(DS-Drawing Scale) can be printed 1:1(PS-Plot Scale). With display method a 1:100(DS) plots 1:99 or 1:101... when you measure something with a scaled rule.
There also a number of tutorials on youtube. Or get anyone familiar with printing in AutoCAD give you a demonstration on how this all works.
