Size of printable area?

[Arty]

Hi,

 

Does anyone know how big the printable area is on a A1 and A3?

 

Is that standard measurments or can that be set up individually?

 

 

Thanks!

[ReMark]

I think it is determined by the printer/plotter you are using. When you use a layout in AutoCAD and go through the Page Setup Manager to select your paper size eventually you are returned to your drawing. The dashed lines you see represent the limits to which AutoCAD will print. Anything on or outside the lines will NOT print. Everything within those lines will.

[BIGAL]

A quick answer our sheet A1 is 841x594 our plot area is 807 x 560 generally if you allow 20mm all edges for A1 and these days 15mm for A3. It is definately printer dependant our laser A3 will do 5mm all edges.

[Arty]

Thanks for the measurements!

 

It looks like our printer is set to 5mm edges, but my drawings get about 4 mm edge on one the left side and about 6 mm on the other... Ideas?

 

Then my manager said that he want to see the corners that help you place the title block, the corner of the paper, on the print... Do you do that? Arn't they just help lines?

[BIGAL]

A couple of ways our title block lower left is 0,0 we have tick marks 6mm outside the corners ie -6,-6 you can set your plots to layout or use a window picking the slightly larger tick marks at correct scale and use centre or the offsets to set sheet exactly as you want. You can save sheet setups in your DWT or you can import from another dwg remember to use "Apply to layout" makes life easier. If you set up an alternative plotter you can also go to the top pull down in PLOT and pick "Previous plot"

 

The important part is to be consistent always have your title at say 0,0. I hardly use PLOT but rather automated plot routines so it works every time. Plotpdf, Plotiff, Plotcolor, Plotlaser

[Arty]

Ok thanks. i'll try and see if I can make it even.

 

My second question, do you print your drawings so you can see the outer tick marks?