Plotter and Exporter Updates
- Enhancement:Can now export Model Compare files for projects with duplicate non-shared project parameters
- Enhancement:By customer requests, when Plotter and Exporter is filtering for Model Compare snapshots, parameter name filtering no longer applies to project parameters. All project parameters are always retrieved.
- Enhancement:New table – LogAddIn. A List of all add-ins loaded in Revit
- Enhancement:In Revit 2020 only, when exporting to Navisworks you can now set the Facet Factor value.
- New Feature: When defining a scheduled task, new right-click menu choices allow deleting configuration files from the task list.
- New Feature: Added the ability to use a custom date format for file and folder names
- New Feature: The wildcard library editor now allows duplicating an existing wildcard (right-click / Duplicate)
- New Feature: The wildcard library editor now allows renaming an existing wildcard (right-click / Rename)
- New Feature: When performing a “Run Now” a new option will allow the process to execute in “preview only” mode. In this mode, no plots, files or folders are generated but the log will display what would happen if the current settings were to be run on the project
- Enhancement: By request, when creating a new wildcard which uses filters, the default is now that “All” filters much match (an “and” filter) which is how Revit schedule filtering works. Previously the default had been “Any” filters must match (an “or” filter)
- New Feature: Plotter and Exporter can now create CTC Model Compare snapshot files
- Enhancement: When building a wildcard search for sheets, new parameter filters have been added to help find sheets of a specific size: Sheet Width, Sheet Height and Title Block Name
- Enhancement: Parameter filtering comparisons now allow for a very small tolerance due to rounding errors caused by how Revit stores data, for more accurate comparisons.
- Enhancement: More robust handling of printers and print settings during PDF exports and printing.
- New Feature: View/Sheet Sets defined in a project can now be used to define the views and/or sheets to plot or export (by view/sheet set name).
- New Feature: Plotter and Exporter can now export to FBX files.
- New Feature: If more than one project file is open, the current export settings can be applied to any selected projects all in one export using the new “Run Now on Selected Open Projects” button.
Fixes
- Fixed an issue causing launch errors because of DAL version conflict with other suites
- Improved PDF and Printing that should now support any view or sheet even if no saved sheet sets exist in the project.
- When exporting to DWFx, an additional “.dwf” suffix was being added to the filenames.
- When using the <space><hyphen><space> file name separator the extra <space><hyphen><space> on the end of the file name generated has been removed.
- When scheduled exporting occurs, if the exported files were being sent to a relative folder they were accidentally being stored relative to the Temp folder. This has been fixed.
- When scheduled exporting occurs, relative links were being lost. This has been fixed.
- Fixed an issue where the product errored on launch because the Sheet Width parameter was blank
- Fixed an issue that can prevent scheduled exports from working with workshared projects.
- Fixed an issue that prevented printing (including to PDF) to work when running on a schedule
- Fixed an error when accessing a settings screen on non-workshared projects in Revit 2019.1 or later.
- IFC and Navisworks exports no longer require selecting at least one view.
- When using custom settings for DWG or DXF export and an older AutoCAD version is selected, it was always saving to the latest version. This is fixed.
- The checkboxes on the export selections tree had disappeared in the 17.0.12 release. This has been permanently fixed.
- The checkboxes on the export selections tree had disappeared in the 17.0.10 release. This has been fixed.
- When starting Plotter and Exporter, the list of wildcards from the wildcard search library was not being displayed in alphabetical order within each view type.
- Resolved an issue where sometimes a wildcard search for views wouldn’t necessarily find all of the matching results. Also improved wildcard search processing.
- Resolved an issue where going back to edit an existing wildcard search may lose custom parameter values for which to search
- Fixed an error that can occur when emailing a log file.
- Fixed an error that may occur when configuring the scheduler.
- Fixed an error that would appear when launching the tool if no sheets exist in the current project
- Sheets would not be available for selection (or exporting) if more than one title block were used on any sheet. This has been fixed.
- Affecting Revit 2014 only, fixed issue where Navisworks exports could fail.
- Fixed an error which may occur on startup on some sheets which have multiple title blocks.