Plotting only fills 3/4 of page

[lufc100]

Hi all,

When I try to plot my drawing, my drawing only takes up 2/3 of the page on print preview. The top half of the page is blank. How can I make my drawing take up the whole available page?

[JD Mather]

Attach file here.
Are you printing from Layout.
Do you have it set to print Layout?

Typically you set your template so that you never have to worry about this again.
Set it and forget it!

[Dana W]

Hi all,

When I try to plot my drawing, my drawing only takes up 2/3 of the page on print preview. The top half of the page is blank. How can I make my drawing take up the whole available page?

The paper size you have selected is larger than your drawing. Either make your viewport larger to fit the paper selected or select a smaller paper size.

[lufc100]

S0200_Smmc.dwg

JD

No I'm printing from the model. Please find attached the file I'm trying to print.

[tomhamlet]

If you are just printing from model space, make sure your print option is set to "extents." However, if your drawing is not proportional to the ratio of the paper that you are printing on, you will have blank space. But I would also agree with the above comments. Set up a border that you can add to any paper space, wether via block or template. It will make future drawings easier to print and organize. Not to mention it looks more professional, I have yet to see a working drawing that does not use a title block.

[JD Mather]

No I'm printing from the model. Please find attached the file I'm trying to print.

Hmm, in that case I wouldn't be of much help - I haven't plotted from model space since sometime in the last century.

Looks to me like your geometry isn't true size either!

[rkent]

You will have to provide more detail. What size paper are you plotting to? Are you using Extents or Window or ... when plotting? Are you seeing all of the drawing and it isn't filling the space?

What you have is fairly square so there is no way to have that fill a rectangle. Define a rectangular window and then it will fill a rectangular page.

[eldon]

Try selecting the area that you want to print using a Window, and plot "scaled to fit"

And perhaps your geometry is full size in metre units.

[JD Mather]

And perhaps your geometry is full size in metre units.

This is what AutoCAD tells me.........
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[eldon]

This is what AutoCAD tells me.........

Sometimes one has to do a bit of detective work on your own, and see what is actually happening, rather than slavishly believing what AutoCAD tells you.

Not everybody is perfect