Use a Yes/No parameter to toggle a view to black and white

[Anonymous]

I have an architect requesting that the title block of a project print in color while the plan itself remains black and white. I have heard that you can apply a Yes/No parameter to all categories in a project titles "Black and White" that you can then create a schedule for where you do not itemize every instance. This gives you an easy location to go to to click a check box and make everything int he project black and white.

Well, I have gotten this far. I can turn "Black and White" on and off project-wide, but I don't really know how to make checking "yes" override all graphics to print in black. How/where in Revit can I put in a formula that says "if yes is checked, the line colors are overridden to black"?

[Revit_Whisperer]

If you are wanting to change the views to be printed to be black you can fix that by creating view templates that changes all of the colors to black.  If you want some views in color for working and some in black for printing for the Architect I would duplicate the views rather than swapping view templates as needed.

If the views that are going on the sheet are not in color, but elements on the titleblock are you can simply set the sheet to print in color in the print setup and save it to use as needed.

I can't think of a native way to have a yes/no parameter control the graphics of a view....however, if you create a View List and add the yes/no parameter for BW and also add the View Template category you can assign the view template to the views you need to from there.

[mikesander]

Hi all,

Did you find a solution to this?

I'm about to go down the road of a dynamo script to alter the colors, but wanted  to check first.

The yes/no color is exactly the same problem i have.

Cheers

Mike

[RobDraw]

The solution is to set up your printing views so that everything is black. This is actually the standard that I've been working with since I started using Revit. 

[ToanDN]

- transfer project standards > view templates from your project to a blank project, name it Color templates

- make a copy of the blank project and name it BW templates

- open BW templates and modify all view templates to BW

- when you need to print in BW, open BW templates and transfer project standards > view templates to yours and override existing

- when done printing, Undo, or open Color templates and transfer project standards > view templates to yours to restore colors

[RobDraw]

Good idea and easy to execute. 

I'm wondering if this is opening up another can of worms. Color plots usually make little use of lineweights. Switching to black lines might require setting lineweights also. If those settings are not already established, there may be even more work to the templates for the switch to work.