Printing to scale
Printing to scale
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Does anyone know how to print to a given scale from ProE? There isn't any 'print to scale' menu pick in the print dialog. Maybe I'm just missing something obvious, but I haven't found it yet.
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RE: Printing to scale
RE: Printing to scale
RE: Printing to scale
RE: Printing to scale
Of course you can print to scale from PRO/E. If it's a drawing, then just create the drawing and put the views at your convenient scale, to fit in a format and print it on the right paper. If you want to print without format and the view is bigger than the format then do the following:
In PRINTER CONFIGURATION window, click the MODEL tab, then at SCALE, put your desired scale and uncheck "WITH FORMAT" box. Also please correct the format size in PAGE tab. Use VARIABLE. I hope you have a plotter with a roll sheet if you have formats bigger than size E. This technique applies only for DRAWINGS!
Now, if you want to print your 3D model, without making a drawing, then in MODEL tab of the PRINTER CONFIGURATION, choose MODEL SIZE(this is in the drop box under the PLOT). This command will plot your model at a pecified scale. This works only for 3D MODEL!
I hope I answered at tyour question. Good luck!
-Hora
RE: Printing to scale
If you plot often using those settings I suggest you save the plot config to a file (click configure... click the save button at the bottom) and place the file in your plot config directory. You can specify the plot config directory in your config.pro.
Configure options:
Under the Page tab: Size: paper size (ABCDE, etc)
Under the Model tab: Plot size - Full plot, clipped, based on zoom, plot area, paper outline.
Full plot: exactly what it reads
Clipped: before printing you will be prompted to create a box around the objects to be printed.
Based on Zoom: what you see on your screen minus a little for the borders.
Scale: Here is where you scale the drawing at print time. Put in a value.