You can use this export option when needing to generate PDF files from your Revit Project. Firstly select the required Revit Sheets or Revit Views to be exported from the main interface and then click the Export button from the ribbon. The top half of the Dialog box relates to the ‘Print’ settings and options for the resulting PDF files as shown by the below image. Most of the options emulate those available inherently from Revit itself. PDF Printers – Drawing Manager will scan and detect any installed PDF printers on your machine the first time you use the Export to PDF option and display available PDF printers in the drop down window. Paper Size – Select an option from ...

Firstly select the required Revit Sheets or Revit Views to be exported from the main interface and then click the Export button from the ribbon. The top half of the Dialog box relates to the ‘Export’ settings and options for the resulting IFC files as shown by the below image. Most of the options emulate those available inherently from Revit itself. IFC Export Settings Split Walls & Columns by Level: If required you can choose to ‘Split Walls & Columns by Level’ when exporting to IFC Export base Quantities: If required you can choose to ‘Export base Quantities’ when exporting to IFC Include Space Boundaries: if required you can either set to None or choose the appropriate Level from the ...

In addition to Exporting sheets/views to various formats using Drawing Manager you can also print your sheets or views to your normal office printers – in fact you can even send the same set of drawings to two separate printers at the same time. For example you could send one set of drawings as a print job to say a large format A1 or A0 printer, and then send the same set of drawings as another print job to say a second small format printer for an A3 set simultaneously. You can control your printer setup for each device respectively as you normally would for example Printer 1 could be your large format printer set for Black & white or ...

When you start using Drawing Manager in conjunction with very large Revit Projects it means of course that you will result in having a large number of Revit Sheets and Views listed in the main data grid to navigate your way through. For this reason when it comes to selecting Sheets or Views on a repetitive basis you can select required groups of sheets or views the first time and then save them as a Selection Set whereby you give the Selection Set a name accordingly.  In future when you need to select the same sheets or views simply choose the previously saved Selection Set from the ribbon drop down list and those sheets or views will automatically be selected ...

Issuing Sheets from Drawing Manager is the first step in creating your document transmittals when documents are issued out of the office either as hard copies or electronic copies. Drawing Manager provides the ability to maintain a comprehensive and historical database of document transmittals for tracking document issues, not just for your own architectural Revit Drawings but also for your External Documents entered into the DM database. There are Two different styles of Document Register layouts provided to you with Drawing Manager to use however you also have the ability to customize your own layout using the built in Report Designer interface. Alternatively you can contact the support and development team at RTV Tools who can provide you with a ...

In order to generate an Issue and subsequent Document Register first of all select the required Sheets / Views / External Documents to be included in the current Issue from the Main User Interface data grid then click the Issue Button from the Home tab of the Ribbon. The top half of the Issue Sheets dialog box is all about the Current Issue Information to be included on the current issue and Document Transmittal. Transmittal Number: required field that will automatically appear in sequential order Issue Date: set the date for the current Issue.  This is a required field. Issued By: enter Name or Initials of the person generating the current Issue. This is a required field. Attention: optional field ...

Once you start generating Issues with Drawing Manager they will be stored in the Drawing Manager SQL database as a historical record that can be recalled and referred to at any point. To access the Issues Register click on the Issue History button from the Home Tab of the ribbon as shown below. The top half of the Issue Register dialog box will display a complete list of all Issues that have been generated for the project to date in order to then generate an associated Document Transmittal. Report Style: select from the drop down list the required report style to be used for the Document Transmittal Report. Show Recipient Columns: if enabled will also display the Recipient Column in ...

Work Packages are a useful and time saving feature of Drawing Manager where you can bundle together any combination of Revit Sheets or External Documents for the purpose of generating Repetitive Issues. Note that Revit Views cannot be added to Work Packages. You can create any number of Work packages as Required which will be stored in the Drawing Manager SQL database.  Once a Work Package has been created you can then add selected Revit Sheets or External Documents to it and then using that Work Package generate an Issue based off the bundle of Sheets and external documents defined by the Work Package. Create a New Work Package: To create a Work Package go to the Work Packages Tab ...

Report Designer is a bundled application included with Drawing Manager which allows users to customise and edit your own Transmittal Reports as required. There are a number of pre-formatted Report styles provided with Drawing Manager however you will most likely want to edit these to suit your needs and incorporate company logos etc. To access the Report Designer click the Transmittal Report button from the Home Tab of the ribbon as shown below. On the Transmittal Reports dialog box select one of the pre-formatted default report styles as a starting point for which to edit and then click the Edit button to launch Report Designer. Using the Report Designer Tools you have the ability to modify and customise a report ...

For very large and complex projects where you may likely have numerous separate Revit Models (.rvt files) linked into one master Revit file. Each of the individual Revit models will most likely therefore have their own separate Drawing Manager SQL databases as well as the main host file having its own Drawing manager SQL Database. To make it easier when it comes to managing all the associated Sheets and External documents between all the various models and SQL databases involved you can establish the Main Drawing manager SQL Database and then link in all the other associated SQL databases.  This will make it a lot quicker and easier to manage Master Document Registers and Issues for the project as a ...