Printing a single drawing on multiple sheets.

[Diguelo]

I have recently aquired AC 2005 and a load of model aircraft designs in Autocad format. As you can appreciate, these models are and can be a heck of a size, some with 7 - 16ft wingspan etc.

I dont have a plotter or access to one so I am wondering if there is any way to make autocad print out a drawing spanning multiple A4 sheets so they can be taped / glued together for making a master tracing film template from.

Most of the designs I have are done on a 1 to 1 scale as they are used as cutting templates for each balsa or plywood part.

[rjt205]

You can always do multiple window plots and then tape/glue them, maybe add some line-up lines.

[f700es]

I would create a layer that is set not to plot and use it's line work to set up a 8.5x11 grid to use as a plot guide. You'll have to play around a bit due to the printer margins I would bet but you should be able to do what you want.

[Diguelo]

Figured it out sort of, im experimenting with zoom and display printing

[fuccaro]

If you managed it I am too late I guess. Maybe for the benefit of others, HERE is an older post.

[Diguelo]

I tried my method of printing and it didnt work out properly, then I tried your method of a grid, set it to 7" x 9.5" and it worked out beautifully. The only change I made was to make the grid layer plottable so I could assemble the pieces later and also added a grid reference number to the bottom right corner of each grid section.

Its time consuming when you assemble the pieces, but the finished tracing made from the patchwork is now on an A0 size sheet of tracing film and is well within tolerances for designing my model aircraft. Now all I got to hope is that the darn thing flies. LOL

Thanks for your time in posting a reply to this query, its people like you spending their time helping the little guys that keep great software alive.