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SteveB

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I am plotting a revit2012 drawing where i have improted a color jpg image as a background. I am plotting to a laser plotter.  Previously in r2011, I can make this work by selecting the postscript version of the printer. It doesn't matter if I select raster or vector... blank page. But in r2012, all it will print is a blank page EXCEPT that it prints fine if I "print visible portion of current view".  then it prints just fine, except I have to manually crop the image on the screet to fit the screen.  

What's up with that? 

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SteveB

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let me add a possiblity:  this revit drawing contains an imported engineers site survey.  attached is a screen print showing that the surveyors "project base point" is way off the sheet.  Is it possible that revit is trying to print somewhere out there, and there is some setting to make it print within the limits of the revit sheet?

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nastyclown

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inside the cad, you have to center the sheet (just create a line, and in "startpoint" set 0.0.0). Most drafters draw off the axis, try to center all your drawings. Now, its a sheet with a draw on it, that means you haveto create a family for the sheet, and create a new file to create the survey. Only then you can import back the survey to revit, but make sure its on the correct elevation to every line, to use later the toposurface tool in revit.

Once you done that, you crop the view, and put it on the sheet.

Seek on the forum for "sheet creation"

Seek on the forum for "toposurface"

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SteveB

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are you saying that within autocad, the origin has to be re-set inside of the (autocad) drawing portion (in this case inside of the site plan that the surveyor has drawn)?

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Yes, and dont forget to match units . Since you already have a "real" origin in revit, try to match with it, from what corner or point was set as origin.

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