Oh my - printing to scale

Jorgensen · 27 Mar 2008, 09:34

I just discoveret that it's only possible to print to scale when using one of the standard views - top down left right etc. If the view is rotated then it's not possible to print to scale

Is this really true ? or is there somekind of workround - other than rotate the complete model ?

Thanks
Jorgensen

Gaieus · 27 Mar 2008, 09:38

Partly. It is true with one addition; using paraline projection can also be printed to scale. See details somewhere about half way down this page:
http://download.sketchup.com/sketchuphelp/gsu6_win/Content/K-Input_and_Output/Printing/IO-Print.htm

Jorgensen · 27 Mar 2008, 09:59

"Ensure perspective is disabled and you are using one of the Standard Views in the Camera > Standard submenu, to enable the scale option."

Gaieus · 27 Mar 2008, 10:11

Yes, and go on reading the next note, too.

Jorgensen · 27 Mar 2008, 10:52

I don't really get it. If I turn off perspective mode, I should be able to print to scale ?

Jorgensen

Gaieus · 27 Mar 2008, 11:05

I guess it talks about the ISO view there - and actually it works - but of course it's again one of the standard views. So I was mistaken when I was talking about "something else".

pav_3j · 27 Mar 2008, 11:14

what more do you want? front, back, left and right should be more than sufficient for scaled drawings surely?

no pleasing some people, he he

pav

remus · 27 Mar 2008, 12:12

You would never be able to print a perspective drawing to scale anyway, whatever the software, because the whole idea behind perspective drawing is that things look smaller in the background, so nothing would be to scale.

pav_3j · 27 Mar 2008, 12:19

@remus said:

You would never be able to print a perspective drawing to scale anyway, whatever the software, because the whole idea behind perspective drawing is that things look smaller in the background, so nothing would be to scale.

at first i was going to make this point, then i realise that perhaps jorgensen was pertaining to being able to take scale elevations from the views between the standard.
with the exception of a ruby, i think the only way of doing this is (as previouslt stated) to re-orientate the axis.

pav

pmiller · 27 Mar 2008, 12:49

Unfortunaely, re-orienting the axes will not work for printing to scale, you must rotate the model and use the default standard views.

Gaieus · 27 Mar 2008, 12:50

When in TOP view, you can re-orient the axes to align your model. Not in a view of a non aligned side though.

pav_3j · 27 Mar 2008, 14:00

@pmiller said:

Unfortunaely, re-orienting the axes will not work for printing to scale, you must rotate the model and use the default standard views.

@gaieus said:

When in TOP view, you can re-orient the axes to align your model. Not in a view of a non aligned side though.

thank you for the correction, i wasn't 100% at the time, now i am!

pav

Gaieus · 27 Mar 2008, 14:20

Yes, when you change the axes, and go to TOP view, it will still align the view according to the original axes. You can however right click on either of the red/green axes and the view will be aligned. Now use the Model extent (or what) button to enlarge your model to full screen (or use pan to get a good view). It won't "destroy" the TOP view.

Jorgensen · 27 Mar 2008, 18:41

Hi there

I needed to print a facade that was not aligned to the axis. So I had to rotate the whole model. I find this quite annoying and see it as a missing function in Sketchup, even though it was the first time I needed it

Thanks
Jorgensen