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The printing company that we use most for printing our plans needs a plot file (file extension .plt) to print. It will make .prn files for me all day long when I check the "print to file" box. Am I missing something really basic that I can't get Revit to make a plt file?
Thanks for any help.
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When you get to that point where you name your prn file, click the browse button. Select the "Save as File Type" pulldown. Select plt as your file type.
Todd Behning
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Thanks, works like a charm.
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Well, let me ammend that last statement. It apparently works like a charm for creating a plot file, but my sheet in my plot file has lots of white space around it, so each sheet needs to be manually scaled in the printing program to make it look right, but that messes up my lineweights since you're scaling an image. Another issue is that my titleblock text in my plot file is squished and diagonal, not nicely spaced and horizontal. Any suggestions? I have no idea why its doing this, the same settings always work perfectly with AutoCadLT.
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Well, I'm just going to mention this first. I don't know of too many printing/plotting companies that don't accept pdf/dwf files. If you have this capability and they accept it, I would do it this way first.
I used to do plot files all the time until the printing company finally accepted pdf files. This way your lineweights are perfect.
However, you sound like you need help with plt files. I just want to make sure from you that you have the correct printer (drivers) installed on your computer. You need to make sure that the printer you use for the plot files is the exact machine they use at their business. Other than that I would fiddle around with the settings. If you have alot of space around the border it sounds like you might have selected a larger sheet in your settings and on their end they use a different sheet size. Or you might have your scale % off, or scaled to fit checked or unchecked.
As far as the text being skewed, that's puzzling. I used to use SoftPlan and I could not get Acrobat to print pdf files properly. There was a corruption somewhere that was unfixable on my computer. Yet another reason I dropped SoftPlan for Revit. Wish I coould be more help to you.
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I am happy to give you a solution to printing PLT's but also have to agree with "framerman". Most reprographics companies should be able to handle PDF/DWF's. You will get a much better result from PDF/DWF's than PLT's. I have spent days looking for a good HP/GL2 driver for my PLT printer. No luck. I am afraid I am not the person to answer your question since I never got mine to work in Revit. Call the repro company and find out if they accept PDF/DWF's.
Good Luck,
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