Printing/plotting error/bug for duct drops with shade/colour fill Revit 11-18

[Anonymous]

Hi there,

We like to put shades on the duct systems to make them stand out on the drawings. This is something that Revit does very well... until you try to print it.

It looks great on the screen...

   No pastey of screenshots?! See Screenshot(Revit).png

But then when Revit sends to the plotter it seems to favour the duct-drop shade and puts it infront of everything.

   See Screenshot(PDF).png

This happens on all plotters I have tried, PDF and hardware. I have tried rearranging filters etc. No fixes (except pasting another small view infront with overridden view params, which is a giant pain in the rump).

Also, this forum is basically unusable. Can we get Revit MEP broken down into sections!? Revit MEP seems like a pretty broad topic for a forum.

Thanks. When can we expect a fix on this one? I've asked about this before but can't find my old post.

[Radish_G]

Hi @Anonymous,

May I know the method that you used to fill the duct.

I tried in two ways, one is by system and the another one is legends, it's working well. Attached PDF copies for your review.

[Anonymous]

Cheers Radish G.

I use filters, the same way as you have depicted in your PDFs. Duct drops are showing fine, as you show. The issue is if you have an item infront of a duct drop when you are using the duct colour fill filters. The duct drops want to show up in front of everything.

Put a piece of mechanical equipment above the SAD drop. Looks good on the screen. Prints with the duct drop shade on top.

Cheers for looking into this. Hoping someone from Autodesk looks into this as well.

Lee.

[Anonymous]

Further clarification...

If I add another unit above the two supply air ducts of the existing units I get the attached. Looks good on screen. Not so much on the print.

I'm going to add a workaround into the filters where I can type "no shade" into the comments and it removes the shade. Boom!

It would be nice if this could be perma-fixed though.

[Anonymous]

Jimenez Crickets!!! I forgot how filters work! Also, problem persists even with no shade on the hidden duct drop. Duct drops trump all, all the time!

Back to the original fix of pasting a reduced view range viewport over the top of the original viewport. Pain!

I need your help, Autodesk.

[Anonymous]

I discarded the filters and tried the colour scheme for duct shading (I was testing out some other Revit features and stumbled upon the colour fill feature).

Even using this, printing still renders the duct drop issue. See the plan view of the attached.

[martinTstewart_Adsk]

Hi Lee,

I've confirmed that this is on the Revit development team's radar.

Here is an article that has some workarounds that have worked for others: Parts of Revit family instance (e.g. Duct fitting) incorrectly displayed with hidden lines when prin...

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