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SeanKirkland

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Hello all, Over the years I have worked on Revit I have found it very annoying at the quality of elevations when using the shadows. 

I assume this is all to do with the Vector/Raster processing and the quality you set your print too. However regardles of quality, it always looks sub average. Recently, after observing a like for like setting in ArchiCAD I got quite annoyed at how much crisper the print is. 

The major issue being though, when linked with Bluebeam to do estimating, you cannot snap to points when you have shadows on with Revit (due to R/P Processing) however, with the shadows on in ArchiCAD you can still snap to points as required. To me, this is a major issue as Autodesk seems to be really pushing the use of Bluebeam with Revit.

I've had to stop using the shadow's on all drawings for this reason.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this. I assume its a software flaw, if this is the case do you think Revit will ever fix it?

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tim123

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I do not seem to have the same issue as you - my shadows seem quite crisp.

Although I haven't used Bluebeam, if shadows are switched on the Revit users raster processing when printing  This is no doubt causing your issue.  However, we advise our users (actually a protocol) to switch shadows off in views unless the view is for presentations or shadow studies.  Shadows in views require additional processing and can therefore slow the model down.  We don't use shadows on any of our construction drawings.

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I agree with tim123.  My shadows are like his.  Your problems are in your settings or your plot/print.

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blue442

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Revit uses raster settings instead of vector when shadows are on.  Make sure your PDF driver has a higher setting DPI to make it sharper.  More info here.  Might want to set your PDF writer to something like 600 dpi.  But it might make your files really big too.  Won't help you snap in BlueBeam though. because its no longer a vector line.

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