Plotmaker is squeezing my drawings !!

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone
I've spent my last day trying to understand what is wrong with my Plotmaker :
I have noticed lately that all the drawings printed with Plotmaker had a problem with the dimensions (4 meters on the drawing were 3.9 meters on the paper....).Printed with Archicad everything was great.
I've been through the settings and found something odd (see the picture) that I later corrected which gave better results (4 meters on the drawing is 3.97 metres on the paper....)but still not acceptable for a professional software.I really don't know what to do.
Any help would be apprciated.

[Anonymous]

you have to go to your master sheet and then print set up with the printer you use for that sheet size, then sync them.

donald mac donald

[Anonymous]

This thing is killing me !!!
Started from scratch on Archicad with a "New and reset", drew a few lines with dimensions, saved my view, closed Archicad, opened up Plotmaker with a "New and reset", imported my view, printed.....the lines are too short the longest the line, the biggest the difference between the dimension and the reality......
I have tried all possible settings with the printer, even opened up the file on another machine, nothing works right.....the only thing that works perfectly is to print with Archicad.

[Aladar Kish]

The problem is that the size of the imported drawing is larger than the printable surface defined in your Plotmaker Master layout sheet so that in order to print the entire sheet Plotmaker reduces the drawing size to 98.4%.
Two possible solutions:
1. Utiliser les marges de l'équipment
2. Change the "taille de mise en page", make it bigger

[__archiben]

also - if you have autotext elements whose anchor points hang off the edge of the layout, this will fool plotmaker into thinking the layout is actually bigger than it is. that's when it reduces the size to fit if you have the option checked (as i see you do).

HTH
~/archiben

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your help but it still doesn't work...as you will see on the attached file, the inserted view is way smaller than my sheet and my autotext elements are anchored inside of it.

[Aladar Kish]

Guess I should not have been so categoric, sorry. There are a lot of variables.
Here is how I would set up the master layout settings in PM.

[Aladar Kish]

Then, after setting the paper for A3 landscape, the print options look like this. Notice the layout size is 390 x 267.
HTH

[Anonymous]

I followed your advice but still doesn't work though I have to mention two things :
-first thing (as you will see on the attached file), I have set the margins to 15 mm for all...it didn't work so I came back to the dialog box but this time after setting the margins to 15 mm I clicked on the "apply" button which changed the values of the margins but still didn't work.
-second thing each time I want to print I have a message saying "there is a problem with your drawings.Do you still want to print or cancel".
Looks like PM knows something is wrong but what......................

[Aladar Kish]

Look at:
options d'impression 392,060 x 291.073
and
the options mise en page type 404.412 x 286.501

286.501 / 291.073 = 98.4%