[rjmorel]

Thanks Burrman, I had to bump each section around to get it onto the printed page that seems centered around x0,y0. Changed line width to 3 to get it dark enough for the old eyes to see. But you gotter done for me. Is the view port something special or just what I see when I zoom in and translate each part to be around x0,y0? If I just drew window around to enlarge it wouldn't print that section, unless translated over to x0,y0. Thanks, rob

[BurrMan]

Is the view port something special or just what I see when I zoom in and translate each part to be around x0,y0? If I just drew window around to enlarge it wouldn't print that section, unless translated over to x0,y0. Thanks, rob

Hey rob. By "viewport" i'm talking about the drawing/cad cam area in bobcad.

printing and sizing can get tricky when trying to do anything other than 1:1

Screen resolution. Zoom. Size of bobcad window. Paper size selection and orientation, etc.

bobcad will resize (zoom) your drawing on a vertical resize, but not HORIZONTAL. so if you want to draw an 8.5x11 rectangle for reference, that can help you "cheat it", but it will still be a different size (on screen) on my 30 inch monitor (resolution and monitor specs all included) than on a 24", cheap one.

you have to do a bunch of math calcs/research monitor specs to get closer to "150 pixels of screen (on my 120 lines per inch monitor) equals 1 actualinch on 8.5x11 paper.

even then its a variable with your printer. There are very expensive plotters that help with that part, and software printers (the computer printer).

You can get a more robust option, for FREE by using something like autodesk's design review or trueDWG and digging into "plotting", but, i like what little hair i have left. If your not doing this at a pro level (not BETTER, just everyday and scrutinized by masses), then by all means.... TURN AND RUN!

[rjmorel]

Burrman, turn and run from printing in BC or from the free ones? I'm thinking of just buying a simple printer to hook up to my XP ACAD computer just to print the few drawings I do in a year. rob

[BurrMan]

Burrman, turn and run from printing in BC or from the free ones? I'm thinking of just buying a simple printer to hook up to my XP ACAD computer just to print the few drawings I do in a year. rob

Turn and run from the plotting options. But i forgot you said you have acad experience, which has plotting system built in (acad also the "free ones" i mentioned)

You can share the printer also. Sending dwg's to then print from the old workhorse.