Printing Visiblity Question

[Doug]

I have a model that has 3 different floor slab. I want to be able to print each one seperately. I have then as different slab names as well as didderent mateirals. I have them in a 3d View and I turned them off using the Hide Isolate command... but when I print them all of the slabs print even though they do not show up on the Sheet I placed them on.

How can I accomplish this?

[aaronrumple]

You should use filters...

The hide isolate is called "Temporary Hide Isolate" It is reset during printing or when the file is closed.

[Joef]

I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to accomplish, but No.1 thing is that hide isolate does not affect what is printed. At all. Ever. This is on the oldest known Revit wishlist and is probably never going to happen. So visibility graphics, worksets and filters are used. You could always do a screen capture. Depends on what you are trying to do.
If you are trying to create 3 separate 3d views and print them why not create 3 separate 3d views and crop the views to show what you want in each view. If this is not what you are trying to accomplish you might try attaching a picture to help us along.

Joe

[Doug]

Thanks Guys!
I started learning about filters last night... seems like it'll work... but I really didn't have time so I did a quick down & dirty solution... (erased what I didn't want and printed it the 3 different ways) Tonight when I get home I am going to try the filters.

Thanks again!

[Joef]

When I want to hide something using filters I usually put a word that is descriptive of the selection set in the comment field of the object and then use that to isolate it. Then I just use the filter: comment field = "whatever". It is very easy if you don't have a lot of different stuff to hide.

[Kiteman48]

A simple visibility solution for printing is to delete the element that you do not want to show. Print the drawing or view and then hit undo until it comes back. Not permanent but it does work easily.

[irwin]

Doug, are these three floor slabs different alternatives? If so, Design Options is the tool intended for this purpose. If not, I'd recommend making three different views and permanently showing exactly one slab in each (using filters or 3D section box).

There is a general philosophy in Revit that your sheets should be set up the way you want them printed. When researching requirements for Revit 1.0, we had found that many AutoCAD users had a multi-step printing process: they would turn on and off various layers, do other adjustments, print, and then put things back the way they were. Needless to say, it led to lots of errors and wasted A-sized sheets. We wanted the printing process in Revit to be single step -- just print things the way they are.

The reason that temp hide/isolate doesn't affect printing is that it is intended as a temporary change -- something to let you see or manipulate something more easily, not to change your deliverables. If, to get the printout you want, you need to hide something, print, and then restore it, then it is easy to make mistakes. As it is implemented, you can feel free to use the temp hide/isolate tool without worrying that you will mess up your deliverables. If you really want to change your deliverables, then use a tool (such as filters) for permanently hiding that thing in that view. The same concern applies to George's suggestion of deleting, printing, and undoing.

After all, you wouldn't want to show up at your construction meeting with no text on your drawings, right? ;-)

[Kiteman48]

Just read this tonight. Now I have to learn more about filters.
The delete- print- undo does work for a Temporary printing of a design option, rather than setting up another sheet, duplicating views and eventually deleting both.