printing to scale

[Anonymous]

hello.
brand new user. macbookpro17, epson 1280 printer.
having problem controlling scale on prints. never prints at designated scale always adjusts for page size.
thanks.
ben

[Andy Thomson]

sounds like a margins issue, adjust your margins of your master layouts until it does not shrink the page, are you close, like 98%?

[Djordje]

nextarchitect wrote:
hello.
brand new user. macbookpro17, epson 1280 printer.
having problem controlling scale on prints. never prints at designated scale always adjusts for page size.
thanks.
ben

Printing from where?

Which Archicad version?

If 9, is the Master in the PlotMaker set to the particular printer? If 10, is the Master in the Layouts set to the particular printer?

Or are you printing from the model views directly?

[Anonymous]

thanks. using ac10. printing from model views. or published dwg's.
ill try setting the master layout.

[Djordje]

nextarchitect wrote:
thanks. using ac10. printing from model views. or published dwg's.
ill try setting the master layout.

Do it from the layouts.

[Thomas Holm]

nextarchitect wrote:
hello.
brand new user. macbookpro17, epson 1280 printer.
having problem controlling scale on prints. never prints at designated scale always adjusts for page size.
thanks.
ben

In the Print dialog, third click menu from top, you'll find an "Archicad" option when you click on the menu button.

Select the Archicad option. There, you'll find a number of options on how to set your printing to get it to a known scale. This applies to printing both model views and layouts.

Please note that these options only "stick" after a print, and during the Archicad session going on. If you close the application, you will have to check this again next time you open it.

And note that if you print to scale to a PDF, the person that in turn prints out the PDF will have to check "no page scaling" in HIS print dialog (Adobe Reader?) otherwise Reader will adjust for printer margins again, and the scale will be off.

[Anonymous]

Hi guys,

I've got a little problem here. I don't have printer at home, so I can't print directly from ArchiCAD as I have to use the library printers (through library's comps) and they don't have ArchiCAD installed...

So my question is: Is there ANY WAY in which I could save the drawings to scale and print them to the same scale from another computer that doesn't have archiCAD installed on it.

I need this ASAP, I'd really appreciate your help!

[Djordje]

Future_Architect wrote:
Hi guys,

I've got a little problem here. I don't have printer at home, so I can't print directly from ArchiCAD as I have to use the library printers (through library's comps) and they don't have ArchiCAD installed...

So my question is: Is there ANY WAY in which I could save the drawings to scale and print them to the same scale from another computer that doesn't have archiCAD installed on it.

I need this ASAP, I'd really appreciate your help!

PDF.

[Anonymous]

Could you please elaborate on that?

I tried to save it as a PDF file but it's not on the save menu thingy. How do you do it?

I'm really new to this!

[Anonymous]

Oh I figured it out!!! but errrrrrrr when I open it as a PDF file it appears to be so small... would it be like this when i print? or would it print to the 1:20 scale that I had set?