On the other hand if I open a new document with unit types as mm and I draw a box of 10000 x 20000 mm big (again 10 x 20 meters as a matter of fact) then the scaling occurs similarly to the drawing you did. There you can see that the box appear as a tiny little box in the middle while, according to my reasoning, it should exceed the A3 paper size because at 1:1 scale it is 10x20 meters wide. If I change the scale to be 1:1 the drawing desappears: does that mean that it is bigger that the A3 paper format? If this is the case why doesn't the rectangle become red? Or may be it does become red only if a portion can be printed?īut.I did another similar experiment which I think is meaningful (to me at least): I opened a new document which has meters as unit type by default, and drew a box of 10x20 (meters, or so I supposed) when I go to Print and set the print configuration as you showed above, I get this picture: The only thing I didn't catch at the beginning was that you had to set the units type as mm as well (you didn't say that but I guess you assumed it.). Ok, I did this exercise too and I got the same result as you. This exercise was done entirely from within model space. If everything is to your satisfaction then go ahead and print your drawing. Click on the button and you will see your drawing as it will appear on the paper. If it were red then that would indicate some portion of our drawing falls outside the edges of the paper.Īs a final check if you look in the lower left hand corner of the Print Configuration dialog window you will see a button labeled "Print Preview.". The fact that it is green tells us everything will be printed. The green rectangle/letter is a pseudo-representation of what falls within the confines of the paper. In the upper right corner there appears a white border representing the sheet size (297x420). Look to the far right and you also see that I have elected to center my model space geometry on the paper. Using the down arrow after the option Scale: User-defined I can select 1:10 which is then reflected below. Note that I "unchecked" the option "Fit to paper". Let's say I have drawn a box with the dimensions of 2100 by 1485 and I want to print it on an A3 sheet of paper at a scale of 1:10. And I don't believe the resolution could be the issue, since I already have it at the maximum Solidworks allows (600 DPI).A simple exercise. Hey Glenn, I sure wish I'd asked this question before DS had to go and sabotage their own platform! Unfortunately, if you check out my table above, saving as PDF and printing to PDF each bring their own set of issues. One more thing to check would be your settings when saving to pdf. That issue seems to have gotten better in recent years, but it might be worth trying.Ģ. Now that I have that off my chest, the most common issue when having problems for a number of years was to try printing to pdf instead of saving as pdf. Unfortunately, while I was assured that those blog posts would be migrated to the new " platform", that doesn't seem to have happened.ġ. It had been edited a number of times, adding new things to try to fix the problem as I ran into them or they were suggested by others. I would send people to it when they had questions similar to yours. I wrote up a blog post on the old forum that had a number of things to try. So basically, since the above patterns consistently hold true in my workflow, I was wondering if anyone else has experienced any (or all) of the above issues? Does this sound like something particular to my install, or are these issues built into SolidWorks? Has anyone found any good workarounds? Any help is much appreciated! And please do let me know if there's any other info I can provide to help identify the issue. The only way to simultaneously include bold text, include text and sketch hatch colors, and avoid white streaks is to have no shaded views present (see: B3, B4).MS Print to PDF in Color / Gray Scale color mode will render the proper colors, but will maximize the streaks if a shaded view is present (see: A4).MS Print to PDF in Automatic color mode will minimize (not eliminate) the streaks, but will not include text and sketch hatch colors if a shaded view is present (see: A3).Drawings with shaded views will always have streaks (see: A1, A2, A3, A4). Save As > PDF will always include text and sketch hatch colors (regardless of whether a shaded view is present), but will never include bold fonts (regardless of whether 'embed fonts' is checked) (see: A1, A2, B1, B2).Hopefully the above screenshots properly convey the patterns I've seen throughout all my SolidWorks PDF struggles: Problems: None (only because no shaded views are present) (identical to B3)
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