Re: Printing templates
Posted by Gary S on Nov 22, 2022; 10:40pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Printing-templates-tp5722191p5722195.html
Hi Sam,
This is a admittedly a cludge and a bit of a chicken and egg thing when determining scale...
As an example, say you want to print a 'detail' on A4 from the complete drawing scaled to fit on A1:
1. Setup the drawing with paper size that you want to print the detail on; A4.
2. Switch to Print Preview and adjust the scale (Toolbar / upper left) so the detail you want to print fits the page. Note the scale. (Hint: Use the 'Tab mode' to switch back and forth between the drawing window and the print preview window.)
3. Switch back to the drawing window and on a new layer, called for example [PageSpace-Detail1], draw the page border, porportional to the paper size, to the inverse of the scale as determined by step 2 (or insert your page border block from the Library Browser that you create previously
scaled accordingly). If you determined the scale to be 1:10, scale the page border by a factor of 10.
4. Switch back to the Print Preview to fine tune the location of the page border (The page can be dragged around relative to the drawing/detail) or turn off all layers except [PageSpace-Detail1] and click the 'Centre to page' button. Still in the Print Preview, turn the layers making up the detail to be print back on. The Print Preview window is 'live' and will be updated accordingly.
When you want to print the entire drawing back on A1 paper, turn on the respective page space layer, i.e. [PageSpace-All], turn off [PageSpace-Detail1] and adjust the scale as needed/previously determined.
It is a bit of a pain to setup, but once it is setup it is easy enough to switch back and forth. Certainly using blocks for the page border / title block makes it a bit easier...
Gary
PS: I draw on ANSI sizes and my page border blocks accomodates a 1/2" margin. So my page border for an ANSI A / Letter (8 1/2 x 11) is 10 x 7 1/2 (landscape). If I'm working with a 1/4 scale I'd factor it up by 4 when inserting it as a block resulting in a rectangle for the border 40 x 30.
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Printing-templates-tp5722191p5722195.html
Hi Sam,
This is a admittedly a cludge and a bit of a chicken and egg thing when determining scale...
As an example, say you want to print a 'detail' on A4 from the complete drawing scaled to fit on A1:
1. Setup the drawing with paper size that you want to print the detail on; A4.
2. Switch to Print Preview and adjust the scale (Toolbar / upper left) so the detail you want to print fits the page. Note the scale. (Hint: Use the 'Tab mode' to switch back and forth between the drawing window and the print preview window.)
3. Switch back to the drawing window and on a new layer, called for example [PageSpace-Detail1], draw the page border, porportional to the paper size, to the inverse of the scale as determined by step 2 (or insert your page border block from the Library Browser that you create previously
scaled accordingly). If you determined the scale to be 1:10, scale the page border by a factor of 10.
4. Switch back to the Print Preview to fine tune the location of the page border (The page can be dragged around relative to the drawing/detail) or turn off all layers except [PageSpace-Detail1] and click the 'Centre to page' button. Still in the Print Preview, turn the layers making up the detail to be print back on. The Print Preview window is 'live' and will be updated accordingly.
When you want to print the entire drawing back on A1 paper, turn on the respective page space layer, i.e. [PageSpace-All], turn off [PageSpace-Detail1] and adjust the scale as needed/previously determined.
It is a bit of a pain to setup, but once it is setup it is easy enough to switch back and forth. Certainly using blocks for the page border / title block makes it a bit easier...
Gary
PS: I draw on ANSI sizes and my page border blocks accomodates a 1/2" margin. So my page border for an ANSI A / Letter (8 1/2 x 11) is 10 x 7 1/2 (landscape). If I'm working with a 1/4 scale I'd factor it up by 4 when inserting it as a block resulting in a rectangle for the border 40 x 30.
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