Rebar display problem

[galdaBZ5L9]

Hello !

Does anybody know why rebars display as a sqare instead of circular when printet/exported as dwf or pdf ? 

[ovidiu_paunescu]

That's interesting 

Could you upload a sample model showing this behavior?

[galdaBZ5L9]

Here is a Revit section model.

Could it be the video card ? we use NIVIDA Quadro K2200

[ovidiu_paunescu]

Hi @galdaBZ5L9 

I exported your sheet using the Adobe PDF printer and that exported correctly.

When exporting to DWF, the system is doing triangulation based on the scale of the view and the size of the circle.

I think this is a limitation of DWF export for small circles, since the same behavior can be observed for a generic model circular extrusions or even the circle end of the tag leader.

My recommendation is to use PDF or DWG.

Thanks,

Ovidiu

[dlugo799]

Hello, I have a similar problem and i can't find a solution no matter what printer I use. In the image "screen revit" I show a section of rebar and they look like perfect circles in the program. But then when I export the plan to pdf the rebar looks like hexagons, as you can see in the image "screen pdf vectorial". I've also tried using Adobe printer, PDF creator printer and Bullzip printer, with both vectorial and raster processing, but I obtain similar results. In the "screen pdf vectorial" image I show 3 possibilities: rebar (looks like hexagon), filled region (looks perfect, this is the result I need) and detail line (looks like hexagon). I realized that in Autocad you can change the "Arc and Circle smoothness" setting, but I couldn't find that option in Revit. Is this a model problem or printing setting issue? Thanks.