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we've got our three floor plans and they're each on a separate sheet got the ground floor plan the level one floor plan and the level two floor plan so how do we actually get these outside of revit that's a question that can easily be answered what we need to do is print the sheets and that doesn't necessarily mean printing it to an actual physical printer to get a paper copy printing or plotting is what revit calls i guess exporting these sheets into an actual pdf document and you can see at the top there's the print button or the print icon or you can also press ctrl p and doing so is going to bring up some printer properties so there are a few different printer settings that we'll want to change before we export this out first of all you obviously want to go to choose the right printed type now you can see that there's a microsoft print to pdf or there's also an adobe pdf printer and these aren't physical printers these are virtual printers and drivers on your computer which are going to allow you to print to a pdf which is what we want if you don't have one of these printers you can go ahead and download what they call a pdf printer driver and that might be an adobe program or it might be a microsoft program this will allow you to print to a pdf i'm going to use the microsoft print to pdf because it's going to be the simplest one the first setting we want to look at is how is this file or how are these files going to be produced are they going to be exported as a single pdf that are all combined or are they going to be exported out as separate files each as a separate pdf and most the time we want them to be combined because then we've got an actual document an actual architectural set and so once that's set up that's fine you don't need to choose a location here under browse you will do that in a second what we want to do is select a view or sheet and we'll click that selected views or sheets to be printed and then we select which sheets or views we want now we don't want to print out the actual views because they're not on sheets they don't have title blocks so usually i'll just untick show views and we'll only show the sheets that we have and already you can see we've got the one two three sheets that we've created so i'm going to check all of them and click ok because they're the ones that we want to print i'm just going to click no for now but we can touch on that later lastly we just want to check the actual settings as you can see if we click on that setup under settings you can already see that the paper size is wrong it's not actually a letter size we want an a1 size now the issue here is that the microsoft printer pdf doesn't have an a1 size we've got a3 a4 and a5 which is great i usually do a lot of my documents in a3 but for larger documents you're going to want an a1 size and that's where the adobe pdf printer comes in you can print to a1 or above so if i just change this to the adobe pdf you're going to see those settings...