Printing Issues

[gofindsam]

Good Afternoon Solidworks Users,

 

I have a drawing that I would like to send to our plotter. The problem I am having is that the drawing is pretty much centered on the print preview. Is there a way you can move the drawing to the bottom left of the paper this way we will only have to trim two sides rather than 4 sides after its being printed? I went into printer preference and the KIP alignment is set to "Left" I hope I am clear on my question. Thank you in advance for your help.

[welldriller]

Can you not do the following?

 

SELECT -> MOVE

 

SELECT -> W (for window)

 

draw a window around your drawing

 

move the whole drawing to where you want it (0,0)

 

SELECT -> ENTER

Then print it

[gofindsam]

Welldriller, on the sheet tab inside Solidworks, the drawing is perfectly fine and perfect on printable area. When it comes to printing, for some reason, the drawing gets centered of the paper and leaves a huge gap around the border which forces us to trim four sides even if the scale is 1 to 1. If I do scale to fit, obviously it fills up the entire page. Of course, our drawings must be 1 to 1 scale. Any other suggestions?

[welldriller]

[QUOTE=gofindsam;534653]Welldriller, on the sheet tab inside Solidworks, the drawing is perfectly fine and perfect on printable area. When it comes to printing, for some reason, the drawing gets centered of the paper and leaves a huge gap around the border which forces us to trim four sides even if the scale is 1 to 1. If I do scale to fit, obviously it fills up the entire page. Of course, our drawings must be 1 to 1 scale. Any other suggestions?

 

Sorry but I do not have any more suggestions at this time. There are many others on the forum that can and will help as soon as they find this post.

 

Just thinking out loud has anyone changed the settings on your plotter and forgot to tell you

 

Is this a new problem

 

Are you plotting from model space or from layout

 

 

You might post the name of the plotter which may help other to help you

 

Be patient help will arrive

[JD Mather]

....Are you plotting from model space or from layout

 

SolidWorks is not AutoCAD.

[SLW210]

Some plotters, in their custom options/properties, will have a "Remove Top and Bottom Blank Areas", or similar, that can be checked on or off, this will still give only 2 sides to cut, there may be other options depending on the plotter.

Edited May 6, 2013 by SLW210

[welldriller]

SolidWorks is not AutoCAD.

 

Sorry Mr Mather Thought op was using AutoCAD 2007 Neglected the very first sentence.

 

Got to pay more attention.