Drawing is a series of boxes, 6" tall and 12’ long. Dimensions are inside the boxes.
When I try to print it the printer dialog boxes give me a really strange page size (like 19" by 3" to six decimals) and won’t let me change the size. Printer is set to correct size but print preview shows the image as a very small drawing in the middle of a page and often tries to put it on two pages.
I exported it to Photoshop and printed it but printing in SU would be much prefered.
I just downloaded the new free version – do I need to delete old version?
Other drawings print correctly, just this one is acting up.
How do you figure that out, Geo? It says Front in the top left. I thought that only appeared in parallel projection?
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Apparently not so - if I change to Parallel projection, then select the Front view and change back to Perspective, it still shows Front in the top left, so i’m wrong in my belief.
Because despite it showing the view as Front, the green axis is visible. It wouldn’t be if the camera was set to Parallel Projection.
In order to get your model to cover as much of the paper as possible, use Zoom Extents to make the model fill the drawing space and adjust the window proportions so they are close to the shape of the paper. Set
As I said, make the drawing window closer to the proportions of the paper. I narrowed up the window as you can see.This is set up to print on 8-1/2 x 11 paper.
I don’t know that it’s a work around. The print area has always been based on the model window and it’s aspect ratio.
So then you have to work with it the way it’s designed to work. If you have to do much of this and your time is worth anything, SketchUp Pro would be a good investment to get LO. And of course if this is for something other than personal hobby use you would need Pro anyhow.
