PRINT USING BLUEBEAM

Bluebeam is a PDF viewer with markup, compare and other utilities. There is a CAD version designed for use with large format sheets. It comes with a PDF printer and printing add-in for Revit.

You can use Bluebeam as a PDF printer from the normal Revit print dialog, or use the Bluebeam Add-in to print.

The Revit add-in allows limited control over PDF file naming, but it can not include revision in the PDF file name.

If you need revision in the file name print via the standard Revit method and rename the resultant PDFs.

Refer to Renaming PDF files

The instructions below are how to use the Bluebeam Revit Add-in to print.

In Revit:

go to the Add-Ins tab.
select Change Settings (if it is not there the Bluebeam Add-in is not installed).
Under What to Plot choose Selected Views/Sheets (unless you want to only print the current view or sheet), hit Select button.
In next dialog at the bottom hit Check None button.
Tick Sheet.
Hit the button with 2 triangles top left, sort alphabetically.
Select whether you want One File per View/Sheet (tick), or a multi-page PDF (untick).

4a. Instead of all the above, and if you have created a sheet set, you can select it from the drop down list.

Next go to the Page Setup tab

From the Page Setup list select the appropriate paper size and orientation.

If what you need is not listed, select Custom and make changes as necessary to other settings.

Hit Create File to start printing.

If you selected One File per View/Sheet a dialog box will appear list the files that will be created.

Tick Remove 'Sheet' Prefix and type in your project's drawing number prefix opposite Prefix.

Hit Start to, well, start.

You can add new Page Setup settings by:

clicking on Manage... button,
add and name the new setting,
return to original dialog box,
select the new setting from the Page Setup list,
make the changes you want for this setting,
Hit Save button.

Settings are saved, so if you need to print again with the same settings you can simply hit the Create PDF button.