RTV Xporter PRO additional and new features include: Simultaneously Export Sheets/Views Automatic creation of DWG/DXF, DWFx/DWF, PDF, IFC, RVZ, DGN, NWC, TXT, and FBX files from Autodesk® Revit® drawing sheets and views. Manage Sheet Revisions Manage your Sheet Revisions prior to Exporting by providing a more user friendly interface to Revit’s own native Revision System. Edit Sheet Data Edit Revit Drawing Sheet data directly from the Xporter Pro data grid prior to Printing or Exporting. Selection Sets for Revit Sheets / Views For large Revit projects with numerous Revit Sheets and Revit Views constantly re-selecting the same Sheets/Views is a time consuming effort so for this reason with Xporter Pro you can create Selection Sets for both Revit Sheets and Revit ...
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When it comes to Project Parameter Binding you can handle this on a project by project basis using Shared Parameter Manager in conjunction with you currently open Revit project to Add, Replace, or Remove bindings or you can chose to Add or Remove Project parameter bindings to multiple revit project files contained in a designated ‘Folder’ as a bulk process. To remove Project Parameter Binding from Revit files at a folder level firstly select the required Shared Parameters from the data grid to be used then click the Remove Binding button from the Folder Parameter binding panel of the Project Parameter tab of the ribbon. Define the ‘Folder’ containing the individual Revit Project Files that the Parameter Bindings are to ...
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If you have existing Sheets created natively within Revit that have also got views already placed on them, then when you import the sheets into Drawing Manager it can detect that there are already views placed on the imported sheets as indicated by the icons below. Sheets that do not have any view icons in the column beside them are indicating that the sheet exists but no views have been placed on the sheet as yet. You will also note that sheets which do not contain views also do not report a drawing scale in the scale column until such time a view is placed on the sheet. This can of course still be done natively within Revit as you ...
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With Xporter Pro you now have the ability to directly edit and modify Sheet parameter values from the main user interface data grid meaning that you don’t need to keep going in and out of Xporter Pro to effect changes to parameters such as Sheet Number, Sheet Name etc. In order to do this ensure you are on the Revit Sheets Tab of the main user interface and click the Edit Sheet Data button from the Ribbon. Note – Edit Sheet Data button cannot be used if the Revit Views tab is currently active. Once the Edit Sheet Data mode has been activated you will see a Blue frame around the Data Grid and each data grid cell becomes editable ...
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As you are no doubt aware, just like we can bind a Project Parameter to a Shared Parameter, there is the need to Bind Family Parameters to a Shared parameter. In doing so it is not enough that the Parameter Name needs to match between the Revit Family and the Revit Project file, the GUID ID must also match in order for things to work as they should. Given that you cannot see the GUID related to a Parameter either in a Project or Family file environment with Revit natively this can make it difficult to ascertain when you only see the Parameter Name in Revit. Therefore SPM can make this process much easier to manage between the Project File ...
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One of the fundamental benefits of Drawing Manager is the ability to have virtually any Revision Format / Sequence needed on your Revit sheets and not being limited by restrictions of revision sequences natively within Revit itself. The built in Revit revision system restricts you to using either Alphanumeric or Numeric revision sequence but you need to predefine the sequence ahead of time to suit what you may need. This is an improvement in Revit native revisions but still not as flexible as revisions using Drawing Manager by comparison. With Drawing Manager the Revisions are stored outside of Revit in the SQL database meaning that you can utilize any Revision sequence or system as may be required to suit your ...
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When you start using Xporter Pro 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 form the ribbon drop down list and those sheets or views will automatically be selected ...
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To add a Family Parameter Binding ensure first of all that you have the required Revit Family (.rfa) file open in your current Revit session and then launch Shared Parameter Manager where you will see all of the tools on the Family Parameter Tab of the ribbon are active and available for use. If you don’t currently have a family file open in your Revit Session and have a Revit Project file (.rvt) open instead then some of the tools on the Family Parameter tab will be greyed out and unavailable. Select the required Shared Parameter(s) from the SPM data grid that you are wanting to create the binding for to the open Revit Family File. You can either select ...
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Whilst you can edit individual sheet information as required there will be situations where you will want to apply the same information or change to more than one sheet and doing each sheet individually of course is time consuming. For this reason you can use the Multi Sheet edit functionality of drawing manager to apply changes to multiple sheets at the same time. There are several reasons why you may want to do this such as; Assigning the same Revision to multiple sheets Auto incrementing multiple sheets already containing a revision to the next one in the sequence Reset the Revision sequence to multiple sheets Swapping out titleblock families Implementing a temporary Sheet Project Status Override for a particular Issue. ...
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For large Revit projects containing numerous Sheets and Views it can be a time consuming exercise sifting through them in order to find and select the required data especially if you need to repeat this on a regular basis. With Xporter Pro there are two different filtering mechanisms available to assist in Searching for specific content in the data grid – using the Find and Search Panel or by using Auto Row Filtering. Find and Search Panel By default the Find and Search panel is turned off in Xporter Pro. To enable the Find and Search panel click the blue magnifying glass icon in the top right corner of the Xporter Pro window as shown below. Once enabled you will ...
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