I’m trying to make some basic prints to a pdf file but no matter what I’ve tried I only ever get 1 scene printed at a time and it’s always the current scene.
In the print preview dialog box I tick the “Scenes” option and enter “1 to 5” for the 5 scene tabs. But I only get the current scene printed.
I’ve tried to print one specific scene by entering “3 to 3” but still only get the current scene, never the scene I specify.
This make me think I’m doing something wrong with how I’m specifying the scenes to print but I can’t figure out what.
Each scene shows exactly what I want to see, e.g. front perspective, front parallel with dimensions, side with drawer closed, side with drawer open etc. side with dimensions, side without dimensions.
I can print each scene individually but I have to go to that scene run the print and create a pdf. For this small job it takes 5 prints to do that which isn’t too bad, but now I have 5 separate pdfs instead of 5 pages in one pdf. I certainly wouldn’t want to do that for a large project.
I see you are using SU Make on a PC whereas I use Pro on a Mac. If I try printing from SU, I get a much simpler dialog box that doesn’t include any options for printing scenes. It just prints whatever is currently showing. So you might want to narrow this post down to Make users on PCs.
I think several PDF readers and writers allow you to amalgamate separate pages into a single document, so that might be of interest as a workaround.
As I have Pro and access to Layout, I normally print from there and then I have all the flexibility you are looking for.
That proved to be quite interesting. If I select a real printer then the print preview dialog is pre-populated with the number range of the scenes and selecting the scenes option actually generates a multi page print of all the scenes. Choosing a part scene range also works.
So it looks like it’s actually an issue with the pdf print driver.
(It looks like you’ve found out, but I’ll add my reply anyway)
For whatever reason, when you have Microsoft Print to PDF selected in Print Setup…
Neither the Current View or Scenes boxes are checked in Print Preview, and Checking and modifying scenes has no impact on the output. As you found out…
I will just add that even though the OP is using 2017 Make, my experience is the same problem with Pro 2020. So the issue doesn’t look specific to a version of SketchUp, more likely Windows 10 PDF drivers.
To test out whether it was Sketchup of the Microsoft print driver I installed cutepdf and that works properly, no workaround required. Looks like it’s either an issue with the Microsoft driver (or the way Sketchup interfaces with it).
