Publishing
Using the publish locations that you have already added to the project, you can publish your Revit files to other formats, including PDF, DWG, and image. You can also publish schedules and quantities to a Microsoft Excel file. The new files will be stored in the destination folder specified in the publish location, which can be on the local file system, in a ProjectWise datasource, or in the ProjectWise Share portal of a ProjectWise project.
Publish to PDF
You can publish views from Revit project or family files as PDFs.
- Open your project in the ProjectWise browser.
- Make sure you have
already:
- installed a supported PDF printer
- specified which installed and supported PDF printer you want to use as the default PDF printer for this project (see Creating Revit Advanced Integration Projects)
- added at least one publish location to this project (see Adding Locations to Projects)
- Open the Revit project or
family file you want to publish.
You can open the Revit file the way you normally would (for example, ProjectWise browser by right-clicking the Revit file in the Work in progress location and selecting Open.
), or if you have added the Revit file to your project you can open it from the - In the ProjectWise browser, right-click the publish location you want to use for publishing PDFs and select Publish to PDF.
- In the Print dialog, do the following:
The PDFs are created and stored in the destination folder specified in the selected publish location.
If the location setting Populate the location with bound content is on, then a link to each published document in the destination folder is automatically added under the location in the ProjectWise browser.
Publish to DWG
You can publish views from Revit project files as DWG files.
- Open your project in the ProjectWise browser.
- Make sure you have already added at least one publish location to this project. (see Adding Locations to Projects)
- Open the Revit project
file you want to publish.
You can open the Revit file the way you normally would (for example, ProjectWise browser by right-clicking the Revit file in the Work in progress location and selecting Open.
), or if you have added the Revit file to your project you can open it from the - In the ProjectWise browser, right-click the publish location you want to use for publishing DWGs and select Publish sheets to DWG.
- In the Publish DWG Settings dialog that opens, do the following:
The DWGs are created and stored in the destination folder specified in the selected publish location.
If the location setting Populate the location with bound content is on, then a link to each published document in the destination folder is automatically added under the location in the ProjectWise browser.
Publish to Image (JPG, BMP, PNG, TIF)
You can publish a Revit project file as an image.
- Open your project in the ProjectWise browser.
- Make sure you have already added at least one publish location to this project. (see Adding Locations to Projects)
- Open the Revit project
file you want to publish.
You can open the Revit file the way you normally would (for example, ProjectWise browser by right-clicking the Revit file in the Work in progress location and selecting Open.
), or if you have added the Revit file to your project you can open it from the - Open Revit's Render dialog ( ) and do the following:
- In the Publish dialog that opens, do the following:
The image file is created and stored in the destination folder specified in the selected publish location.
If the location setting Populate the location with bound content is on, then a link to each published document in the destination folder is automatically added under the location in the ProjectWise browser.
Publish Families
You can publish Revit family files to a family publish location so that they can be used by other users. You can publish the open family file, or you can open a Revit model and publish some or all of the family files in it.
- Make sure you have already added at least one family publish location to this project. (see Adding Locations to Projects)
- Open a Revit family file,
or open a Revit model that contains one or more Revit families.
You can open the Revit file the way you normally would (for example, ProjectWise browser by right-clicking the Revit file in the Work in progress location and selecting Open.
), or if you have added the Revit file to your project you can open it from the - Right-click the family publish location in the ProjectWise browser and select Publish Family.
- Do one of the following:
- If you have a Revit
family file open, the
Publish Family dialog opens,
prompting you to save a copy of the open family file to the destination folder
specified in the family publish location.
Click
Yes.
or
- If you have a Revit model open, the Select Families to Publish dialog opens. Select which families in the current model you want to publish and click OK.
- If you have a Revit
family file open, the
Publish Family dialog opens,
prompting you to save a copy of the open family file to the destination folder
specified in the family publish location.
Click
Yes.
The selected family or families are published to the destination folder specified in the selected family publish location.
If the location setting Populate the location with bound content is on, then a link to each published document in the destination folder is automatically added under the location in the ProjectWise browser.
Publish a Schedule or Quantity to XLSX
You can publish the schedule or quantity that is currently open in Revit to any publish location in your project. The schedule or quantity will be published as a Microsoft Excel file (XLSX).
- Open your project in the ProjectWise browser.
- Make sure you have already added at least one publish location to this project. (see Adding Locations to Projects)
- Open a Revit project file and generate the schedule as usual.
- In the ProjectWise browser, right-click the publish location you want to use for publishing schedules and select Publish Report.
The schedule is published as a Microsoft Excel file (XLSX) and stored in the destination folder specified in the publish location.
Overwriting Documents or Creating New Versions When Publishing
When you are publishing a document and a document having the same file name already exists in the destination folder, you can select whether you want to overwrite the existing document or create a new version of the document.
If you select Create Version and the destination folder is a folder in ProjectWise, then publishing creates a new version using standard ProjectWise versioning rules. The newly published document becomes the active version, and the previous active version becomes a non-active version. In the ProjectWise browser, under the location, the active version of a document is shown as plain text, and the non-active versions are shown in italic text.
If you select Create Version and the destination folder is a folder in ProjectWise Share or on the file system, then publishing creates a new copy of the file with the same base name and with a number appended to the name. For example, if there was already a file in the folder called published.pdf, then a new file is created called published(1).pdf.