How To Print A Template For Wood

Recently I've fielded some questions near how to impress templates that bridge several pages. Tim has written about this in past only here'south another get at it. Since I have the pro version of SketchUp, my first approach would be to employ LayOut for making templates merely it can certainly exist achieved directly from SketchUp.

The first method involves printing direct from SketchUp. If the design is for something long and narrow, I orient the pattern and then its long dimension runs across the screen. Set up Camera to Parallel Projection and cull the Standard View that aligns with the face of the blueprint. Adjacent, reduce the size of the window so it is close to the same shape as the pattern. Use Zoom Extents to make the pattern fill the cartoon window. On the PC, you'll demand to united nations-maximize the window to practise that. If the button between _ and X in the upper right corner shows two overlapping squares, click on it. Then yous tin grab the lower right corner of the window and move it around to resize it.

On the PC, it is likely that you'll accept to motility or close some toolbars temporarily for this process. In the paradigm higher up, note that I've also drawn in some registration marks to aid in adjustment the printed template sheets.

Adjacent, open Print Preview. Click on the Options button and set the paper orientation equally needed. In this case I set it to Landscape. Then uncheck the boxes for Fit to Page and Use Model Extents. Set Scale to a 1:one ratio. You lot can cheque to see if the number of sheets required makes sense. In this case I get 4 sheets. You might have to get dorsum and brand small adjustments to the size of the drawing window to become the number of sheets to be right.

Here are the Print Preview windows. Notice that my registration marks aren't perfectly aligned on the sheets but they are mostly usable as is. I could go back and rearrange some of the marks but I wanted to testify you what can happen. It is possible to squeeze this blueprint onto 3 sheets if the registration marks ware rearranged a fleck.

Another method which works for those SketchUp users who have the PDF export option is to create scenes that show parts of the model and export those scenes into a PDF file. After LayOut, this is my favored approach. It doesn't require resizing the screen nor replacing toolbars.

Then to start with, I created the registration marks around the template. In this instance they are spaced horizontally on 9 in. centers and vertically on six-one/ii in. centers. This is done to ensure that they fall within the printer margins.

Next I select the outset ready of four registration marks (commencement and second vertical pairs) then right click and choose Zoom Extents from the Context card. Note, this is different from Zoom Extents in the Camera menu or on the toolbar. Next get to View>Animation and click Add together Scene. Select the next ready of four registration marks (2d and third vertical pairs) and add a scene. Proceed on in this way until yous have all the sets selected and scenes added.

Finally, go to the File carte du jour. Choose Export>2D Graphic. Set the Export Type to PDF and nether Options make sure the box for Full Calibration (1:i) is ticked. The PDF files can so be printed with no scaling to get the 1:1 templates or pattern. Observe that the registration marks will be consistently located in this method considering you are directing how the pattern gets separate up into sections.

If you have the pro version of SketchUp, ship the file to LayOut and set up the scale of the scenes there to one:1. When you lot export to PDF, all the pages will be exported into a single file.

The benefit of the the PDF consign is that you lot can easily share this with others and they aren't required to take SketchUp on their computer.

Mayhap ane of these methods will work for y'all. Give them a try.

Dave