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■ WORKING WITH REVIT ARCHITECTURE 2011 MODELS
Note: If you own AutoCAD and Revit Architecture as many architects do, you’ll gain the most flexibility in
Photoshop by exporting a DWG file from Revit, cleaning it up in AutoCAD, and proceeding to follow the AutoCAD
instructions in the previous section.
Carrying Revit’s Default Treatment of Lineweight into Photoshop
Revit has built-in export functionality that supports raster image creation directly from
Revit’s vector database. Perform the following steps to export an image from Revit:
1. Launch Revit Architecture 2011 and open the Basic sample project.
2. Double-click Level 2 in the View hierarchy panel. Revit automatically generates
a 2D floor plan from the 3D building information model stored in its relational
database (Figure 1.19).
Figure 1.19 Revit sample project Level 2 drawing
3. Choose Revit menu > Export > Images And Animations > Image (Figure 1.20).
4. Click the Change button in the Export Image dialog box and then select a file-
name and path.
5. In the Image Size area, select Fit To, type 3000 pixels, and select Horizontal as
the direction.
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