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My solution to autmatically print totally different paper sizes from Revit. This solution is metric, as windows stores the sheet sizes in milimeter. You can use this on an imperial project in revit, however the new sheet sizes will be named according to the sheet sizes in milimeter. You can modify the dynamo script if you want to name them in imperial.

Prerequisites

• Required programs: Revit, Dynamo, Design Review

• Required dynamo packages: Clockwork, Spring nodes

Built and tested on Revit 2017, Dynamo 1.3.3, Clockwork 1.31.0, Spring nodes 132.2.0 It should work on Revit 2016+, Dynamo 1.x

Installation

• Run winforms-1.0.1.sfx.exe. It will copy winforms to Program files(x86). Do not modify the default install path, unless you modify it in the script as well.

Usage

• Start Revit, the project you want to print, and the AddSheetSizesToPrinter.dyn in dynamo. It should work in dynamo player as well, but for a first run I highly recommend running in the full environment, not in the player.
• Run the script, it will add the sheet sizes to windows.
• Export the required sheets to dwfx. On dwf export settings - DWF properties - Print setup - Paper - Size select use sheet size. This is the default value, so you don't have to change if you first export a dwfx
• Open the exported dwfx in Design Review

Notes

You can delete the sheet sizes created by this script by hand in the "print management" or in "devices and printers - print server properties". Or from the command line with winforms. If you installed to the default path: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Winforms\winforms-1.0.1.exe" --del="2300x594" This command deletes the sheet named 2300x594

Uninstall

Delete the files you downloaded and the following folder with it's content: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Winforms"

Special thanks

Steve Friedl, creator of Winforms. More info here: http://unixwiz.net/tools/winforms.html