Printing Actual Size Templates
Printing Actual Size Templates
(OP)
I am drawing actual size templates on my architectural Auto Cad, however when I bring the pdf version to Staples to print it is always much smaller scale.
Can somebody tell me how to print actual sizes when I am drawing actual sizes.
thanks
Can somebody tell me how to print actual sizes when I am drawing actual sizes.
thanks





RE: Printing Actual Size Templates
Doug
RE: Printing Actual Size Templates
... and that was using a real rollfed plotter, driven directly by AutoCAD, and storing the template as a .dwg or .dxf file.
Now, about Acrobat. PDF files were intended to be a format where the author, only, determined how the image appeared. For reasons of their own, Adobe seemed to think that automatic scaling to the presentation page was a desirable thing. ... which makes .pdf files pretty much useless for engineering.
... none of which helps with your problem.
If you know which plotter is in use at your local Staples, maybe you can use AutoCAD to write a .plt file appropriate to that plotter to a thumbdrive, and copy that to the plotter at the store. It will probably take a few trips to get it right; sorry.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Printing Actual Size Templates
RE: Printing Actual Size Templates
If you are printing from a layout make sure that the "Standard Scale" of the viewport is also set to 1:1. I wasted some paper years ago figuring this one out.
Doug
RE: Printing Actual Size Templates
B.E.
You are judged not by what you know, but by what you can do.
RE: Printing Actual Size Templates
RE: Printing Actual Size Templates
RE: Printing Actual Size Templates
The first draw the rectangle frame according to paper size. Then within that frame fitting the shape or template.
In the Page Setup Manager making settings: Plot area set to Window and selecting that frame. Check the orientation Portrait or Landscape. Check printable area origin set to Center and Plot Scale to 1:1.
Always getting the best results.
If the shape is to big and does not fit to the paper frame, use larger paper or draw more frames that one intersect another and the shape will fit within several frames. Draw the grid on the shape as well. After the plotting each frame with the fragment of the shape the grid will help to stick all peaces to one sheet.
Hope it helps.
RE: Printing Actual Size Templates
-Install drivers for a 'ghost printer' (http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net is what I use)
-Do a print-to-pdf or export using this instead of the autoCAD drivers with the layout paper size set to whichever size you want
-This will result in the PDF having a size that actually matches the layout size you selected rather than trying to make it up with different sets of A5 sheets.
Note: I haven't done this with 1:1 drawings, so do a couple test prints to confirm