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Multiple ClarityPDF Drivers

I've been noticing a bottleneck in the scalability of Clarity as a PDF automation tool. You can increase the number of Revit sessions that can run at one time on your task machines, and you can vary the PDF drivers to allow for each session to run PDFs simultaneously. However, varying the drivers only makes sense if you're ok with not having the PDFs coming from Clarity follow the same standard.

Our use case requires all PDFs to be printed as individual sheets, which requires us to have the naming be consistent and clean. Only the Clarity PDF driver does this out of the three available.

If we could have multiple Clarity PDF drivers installed (ClarityPDF1, ClarityPDF2, etc...) that would allow us to run multiple PDF tasks on the same machine while still getting the consistency that we are looking for.

Not sure how Revit/Clarity would behave having to pick whichever driver is available, or how many driver duplicates would be appropriate to install. I would like to see 3-4.

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Maybe the drivers could be actively created/removed by the Clarity Windows Service? That way you could add/remove as needed.

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Holden - 

The PDF Xchange driver that we ship with Clarity was made to address this issue (it dynamically generates more drivers)... Remind me if there's an issue that you can't use this one?

Also: depending if you're using Revit 2022 or higher, but can you use the built in Revit PDF Export mechanism? That also should be not bottlenecked by drivers, and able to deal with individual sheets?

-Matt

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Hey Matt!

That's a good point about the native PDF export. I'll give that a try and see if it produces the same or better from what we've been getting from the ClarityPDF driver. I think I just hadn't switched it since we've been using the ClarityPDF driver since the start and haven't had the need to switch until now.

For both or either of the solutions you recommended (particularly the native PDF export), do I get the same dynamic control of the outputs that I do for ClarityPDF (or better?). Meaning, will the file naming, sheet order, etc... be the same. Will it also do hyperlinking on top of that?

Thank You,

Holden

Holden,

there’s always tradeoffs. I believe the Native Export is probably your best compromise if you want hyperlinks. It’s just not quite as good at naming- but it handles 90% of the requirements.

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