Printing in Revit

Printing in Revit is noticeably different from AutoCAD. First there isn't a print region box, Revit uses the real extents of the sheet as it appears in the view. What that means is, if you have a 24X36 title block in a sheet view and you print at 100% it will automatically determine the print area using the extents of the title block and center it on the printed sheet.

Trouble Shooting
At times this can get tricky/troublesome. If for instance, if you have a view on a sheet that hangs off the edge, outside the boundary of the title block, Revit will try take the full extents of the view and create a new center that it will place at the center of the printed sheet. What this will do is push your sheet off the edge of the printed page, causing a mess. To make sure everything prints nicely, make sure all the views are cropped if necessary and items placed on a sheet view fit within the extents of the title block.

Scaling Sheets
Often times its necessary to print a reduced size set of drawings. Scaling drawings down in Revit is a little different than CAD. Below I will provide a couple handy print setting that can be used for creating 11x17 scaled prints of 24x36 and 30x42 size sheets in order to maximize the sheet.

24x36 scaled to fit 11x17

Zoom factor: 46%
Offset from corner: User Defined
     0.500" = x   -0.020" = y

30x42 scaled to fit 11x17

Zoom factor: 37%
Offset from corner: User Defined
     1.500" = x   -0.050" = y