Print Area Resizing A to D, Need Help

[Bill Turpin]

I am an Vectorworks Newby of about 7 full hours. Where as I am an ACAD/MDT - Solid Works CAD Designer of several years. I am having extream difficulty in attempting to print out a drawing that was done in A-Size format in a plotter D-Size.The plotter is an HP Design Jet 800.

So far I can print an A-Size or a D-Size that was created in those files sizes. But so far I am unable to figure out how to resize an A into a D and D to an A.

[Guest]

You need to go into Page Setup and select the page size you wish to print as. Then you may need to go to the Page menu, and select Set Print Area. Make sure this is set to "One Page" (Scroll up to see it).

If you are on a Mac running os 8 or 9, make sure you have Carbon Lib 1.6 installed.

[Bill Turpin]

I have done just that but when I try and resize a D-Size drawing it breaks it up. It seems to always give me 4 page print. Can not get a 1-page.

[Guest]

Bill,

Once you set the page size in Page Setup, then go to the Page menu and select One Page from the Size drop down box. This will give you one page as the print boundary box. If you specify anything other than One Page here, you may be shown page breaks (if checkmarked).

[CipesDesign]

Bill, Katie meant to say go to the DRAWING SIZE item in the PAGE menu (sorry for butting in Katie).PLC

[Bill Turpin]

Katie was Right,(Must be a PC thing verse a MAC) I finally have a decent drawing printed out, The page, set print area worked great. I use ACAD/MDT & Solid Works on a regular basis, I was scratching my head most of yesterday trying to get a good print out.

I thank you all for your help.