BATCH RENDER CREATION

This describes a method to create multiple rendered tiff files using an edited revit Journal file.

It is a bit of a hack so has limitations:

• • only camera views can be rendered (not orthagonal views).

  • it will only create TIFF files.

  • you need to set it up very carefully before running it.

First set up your Revit project file:

• 1. All views to be rendered in the file MUST have render settings set to "print" NOT "screen".

  2. Render quality of each view must be set to something other than target output (i.e. you can't save the view with quality set to "High" if script is going to set it to "High" too).

  3. Exit Revit.

Then edit and run the script file:

• 1. Copy the script file to the same folder as the .rvt file to be rendered, rename it by including the Revit file name.

  2. Set your render settings (name of file, names of views, quality, size, etc) in the space provided. (Please read the instructions in the script carefully, it's easy to put in bad information and the script is a sensitive hothouse flower)

  3. Save changes and drag this file from Windows Explorer onto your Revit shortcut icon to run.

  4. Images are saved in the same folder, so make sure to remove all output before running for a second time, as the script will fail if you try and overwrite exisiting files.

  5. Revit will exit without saving when finished.

Best practice is to:

• 1. Set quality in each view in your Revit file to "Low".

  2. Do a test run with quality set to "Draft" in the script file. If you are doing a lot of renders do the test run with only a few views.

  3. Once it works start the proper run, but watch the first render before going home to make sure it is working.

The script file is in S:\Revit Settings\Batch Files\Revit Scripts and is called BatchRenderViews.txt