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Provides a set of tools for printing a single view of a drawing, or printing specific sheets drawing spanning multiple sheets of paper. Image Removed

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Printer: Select  Select a printer and manipulate its properties.

Name: Select  Select the desired printer from the drop-down list. All printers set up on your system should appear on this list.

Properties: Opens the  Opens the Properties window  window for the selected printer.

Page Setup: Controls  Controls exactly how drawings will be printed. See See Page Setup.

Default Printer: Selects  Selects the Windows default printer.

Print to File: Prints  Prints the document as a file instead of routing it directly to a printer. You will be prompted to specify the filename and location.

Print Range: Options  Options for setting a specific view of the drawing to print, and for selecting a range of pages when printing a drawing that spans multiple printed sheets.

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Tip:This  This is useful for printing tiled drawings if you only want to print specific pages.

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All: Prints  Prints the entire current drawing. If you choose choose Selection under  under Print Source, only objects that are selected will be printed. If your drawing spans multiple printer sheets, the total number of sheets will be shown in this option title.

View: Prints  Prints a single view of the drawing. You can print the current view by default, or click in the list box and choose any named view.

Pages: Prints  Prints a range of pages if the the Page Layout is  is set to print multiple pages. The printer sheets are counted starting in the lower-left corner from left to right, and from bottom to top.

Fit on 1 Page: Prints  Prints everything on a single page. This option can be used either for printing a view or printing the entire drawing.

Print Source: Select  Select what you want to print.

Drawing: Prints  Prints the current drawing.

Selection: Prints  Prints only selected objects.

Color Mode:

Normal: Uses  Uses the predefined printer settings.

Gray tint: Used  Used for color printers. Disables color mode and prints in black and white, using grey tints for other colors.

Black only: Disables  Disables color mode and prints in black only; no grey tints are used.

Copies: Sets  Sets the number of copies and whether you want multiple copies to be collated.

Print Styles: Sets  Sets the print style to be used while printing. See See Print Style Options.

Full Preview: Previews  Previews your drawing before printing.

Print Window

You can create printouts by arbitrarily specifying a window of the desired area of a drawing.

  1. Go to the Print dialog.
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  2. Change the Print Range to View
  3. In the View drop-down select Window.
  4. Press the Define Window button
  5. Click two points to define the print window.

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  1. When the Print dialog reappears click the Ok button. If you wish to review the print area prior to printing click the Preview button. 

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