Preparing Midterm Submission: Printing Design Options and Sheets for Submission

Now that we've completed the first half of the course, it's time to prepare our midterm for submission. So to do that, what I'd like to do is include the sheet that we see here, and the sheet that we use to create our design options. So these will be two PDFs that we'll want to submit.

We've already printed the PDF that you see here after we completed that lesson. If you haven't done so, you'll want to go ahead and print that. This one's on 11 × 17.

And then we'll also print this sheet here, which is A2.1. So to do that, I'm going to use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+P, which will open up my Print dialog. And I'm going to set my printer to Adobe PDF, the PDF printer I'm using. And there are multiple free ones that you can use that'll allow you to print to full-size sheets like you see here.

And I'll go ahead and do the setup. So I'll go through the setup process, where I can pick my preset, if I've made one. In this case, we have not.

But I will change it to the right sheet size, which is going to be Arch E1. And that's a 30 × 42 sheet, which this is a 30 × 42 sheet. And I'm going to make sure this is set to center and to zoom 100%.

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The other thing I want to do is, I want to make sure I click Hide Unreferenced View Tags. So things like this section that's already there and this elevation that's already there, those are view tags that are unreferenced, so those will print if I don't check this box. And I don't want those to print, so I'm going to go ahead and check that box.

So I'll hit OK. It's asking me if I want to save this for a future Revit session, and I think it's a good idea, so I'm going to go ahead and say yes. And I'll give it a name, and I'm just going to call it 30 × 42, because that's the sheet size that we're dealing with.

All right. Before we print anything, we always want to make sure we do a preview. And so I'll do a preview.

I'm going to double-check to make sure everything looks good. And there's one thing I'm seeing that's bothering me a little bit, and it's the fact that we went through the effort to clean up these rooms here, but we really didn't do anything with the offices. So what I want to do is I'm going to go back in, and we can do that pretty quickly from here.

I can double-click to activate the view. This is my crop region, so I can turn that off. And then I can go through, and I can actually pull these tags out by just adding a leader and then adjusting their location so that we have more of a clear look at the office.

And this one, you know, I put it up at the top because there's not as much space over here. It doesn't matter which way you do it. You just want to make sure it's clear and easy to read.

If I move it out to this location, I'll adjust the leader around like you see here. And then I'll just go through and repeat that process for all of these rooms. And it doesn't really matter which location you go or how you move it around, just as long as, again, like I said, that it's clear and easy to read.

And a couple more to adjust here on level two. And we should be good. I'm just trying to navigate the view title and everything.

And so I can always move this around. And then the last one here. And we'll go through and do the same thing on level one.

And so this is a much clearer way of setting it up. You can see it's messy because they're all bounced around all over the place. So what I'll do is I'll move them around.

And the ones that are locked in, you can see that line gives you an indicator. And so I can move this guy until it hits that point. No reason I can't move the window tag either.

You'll get used to this as you go through the process. This one's a bit of a unique case because we do have that callout there. So I'm not going to worry about moving that one.

But I will grab this last one here and adjust the tag. And then I'll go through and do the exact same thing on level one. This is one of those cases where a lot of people might ask, is there a quick and easy, one-button solution here? And unfortunately, that is not the case.

We'll just go through like I have been doing and make sure we get all of these in. And the best way, honestly, is to make sure you try to get them in relatively the location that you want right off the bat because the more you have to go back and modify it, the more work you're creating for yourself. And so if you're able to place these in the location you want earlier, the better you will be for documenting later on.

And you can see it only takes a few minutes, so modifying isn't a big deal. As you notice here, I got a little aggressive with my clicking and I missed the drag button. And so if I move it now at this point, it'll mess up the room tag and it won't work.

So I need to make sure I'm on that drag button before I move that out. And then it looks like I gave myself a little bit more room with the dimensions here. We have a little bit more space.

First, I'll add that leader. And we'll set that leader. And last one here, Office 102.

And now we're all set to print. So I'm going to return to the Print dialog, make sure I'm set to that 30 × 42, which I am. Just double-checking my settings, and everything looks good.

And, of course, before I print, I'm definitely going to do another preview and just scan the page, make sure I don't have anything overlapping each other, make sure it looks good, make sure I have the title block filled out. Looks good to me. So I'm going to go ahead and hit Print.

Hit OK. And after the file prints, you'll want to just double-check again that PDF. And you should be good to go.

And so we will have that PDF and also the PDF that we created earlier in the class to submit for the midterm.