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Chapter 1: Preparing Drawings in CAD or ... > Working with Revit Architecture 2011...
Working with Revit Architecture 2011 Models
You can enhance Revit plans, elevations, and section drawings in Photoshop, just as you can AutoCAD drawings. However, there is no easy way to automate Revit to output every layer as a separate image file. Therefore, our approach will be to export each drawing as a single image for later enhancement in Photoshop.
In the single-layer approach, we lose the ability to control lineweight in Photoshop, but this isn’t the end of the world. You can carry Revit’s default treatment of lineweight into Photoshop or force all lines to be as thin as possible prior to transfer. I’ll show you both methods because each has its strengths and weaknesses.
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.
