Scale printing bug?
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If I create a new drawing with nothing in it except a 1" square (eg delete the man) then print it with settings "1 inch in print out = 1 inch in sketchup" then sketchup fits it across the edge of TWO A4 pages. A similar 2 inch square takes FOUR pages. Why can't it fit it centered on one page or if it can, how do I do that please?
If I print it with setting: "1 inch in print out = 1 feet in sketchup" then it works fine and prints a square 1/12th of an inch across neatly centered.
If I turn off "use model extents" it prints 64 blank pages!
In case it matters I'm following the instructions in this tutorial ..
http://www.liv.ac.uk/abe/students/sketchup/05b_output.shtml -
CWatters,
I had never tried scale printing from SU before. Upon reading your post I tried printing a simple 6"x6" square @ 1:1 on an A4 sheet (8.3"x11.7"). There is obviously something funny here, unless I am missing something illogical. SU did not fit it in one sheet but spreads it across two.
If I untick 'Use model extents' SU demands a paper size of 12.0832" x 7.3684"; if ticked, paper size fields display 16" x 16". This is strange. Hopefully someone will provide better insight on this matter.
Guite
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Hi guys, I have never had an problem with printing to scale. Are you sure that you followed every step?
- Go to Camera > Parallel projection.
- Go to any of the Standard views (top, front, left etc...)
- Uncheck fit to page
- Uncheck model extent
- set the scale as desired...
I've just tried with an 1" x 1" square with 1:1 and it seems to be all right to me (about 2.5 cm x 2.5 cm as I1m in metric).
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Ok I've just repeated it and it's still happening.
First try tonight it spread it over 8 pages but if you click and unclick "fit to page" and then correct the scale back to 1:1 it's possible to get that 1" square spread over as many as 18 pages, 17 of which are blank"
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Humm. Could this be anything to do with the sky background? If you have the sky enabled that turns up as a border around the object in print outs. I've got it turned off but perhaps it's not really off, perhaps it's trying to print a large white boarder around my little 1" square?
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No, background settings have nothing to do with printing to scale. Are you sure you only have an 1" x 1" square in there?
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I did some further tests as per all the steps outlined by Gaieus. A 6"x6" square took two A4 sheets at 1:1
, a 3"x3" square printed just fine- true to scale in one sheet.Guite
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I find following the way Csaba mentioned works perfectly as supposed to do.
Where I cannot get it to work is when exporting to pdf. The scale never seems to work out that way. -
@gaieus said:
No, background settings have nothing to do with printing to scale. Are you sure you only have an 1" x 1" square in there?
Well I created a new file, selected and deleted the man, drew a rectangle entering the dimensions via the keyboard. Unless there is something else on a blank document?
Edit: Tried again this time using Edit -> Select All -> delete then drew the square. Still 18 pages.
Went to Printer setup and selected A3 paper and then print preview says it can fit on 9 A3 pages instead of 18 A4 pages.
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Ok tried something new. If I draw a larger object say 10 feet x 10 feet and then print it at a smaller scale it does print correctly and the right size. It's just small objects that it seems to have problems with.
Edit: Oh B%*%%$er now even that's stoped working. Last week I designed a stable block thats a 16 x 16 foot and 12 foot high. Printed out fine to scale on one sheet of A4. Can't get it to do that now.
Will try reinstalling sketchup incase something has gone wrong.
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