Keith W Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 In 2011 on my desktop, I can't see the page boundaries, and the option is greyed on the Page Setup dialogue. Obviously it makes printing sort of a PITA. I can add a sheet border, but I don't always need one (for quick sketches, for example). In any case, I ought to be able to have the page boundary on. Any thoughts? Keith Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Unified View has an option to Show Page Boundary. If you don't have that set to on you won't see the page boundary when you are in Unified View. To access the Unified View options double click on the Unified View icon on the View Bar. Quote Link to comment
Keith W Posted January 17, 2011 Author Share Posted January 17, 2011 Thanks! I never would have thought to look there. Honestly I can't imagine why it would be there. That machine is off so I'll have to check later, but I know Unified View was on, so that makes sense. k Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 It is there so when you are rotating a model the views can be seen without the page boundary being a distraction. Particularly useful when you want to take a screen shot of a particular view. Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Perhaps Keith W was questioning the location of the controller, rather than the need for the on/off option. One might expect the page boundary to be controlled only from a global command center rather than several places. But there are several anyway: File>Page Setup>Show Page Boundary File>Document Settings>Document Setup>Drawing Area>Page Setup View>Unified View Options maybe some others The Unified View setting cannot make the boundary show if it is switched off in the doc prefs. The doc prefs cannot make the boundary show if unified view is enabled and set to no boundary. It's kind of conflicting, and one of those artifacts of a complex app with lots to learn and keep track of. Should we/I wish for a single control point? Does Unified View really need a dedicated control for this? -B Quote Link to comment
Keith W Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 So for the record: I just talked with tech support. Apparently, some video cards have some kind of problem with GDI+ functions, if I understand correctly. I had to turn off GDI+ features on tools/options/vw preferences/display. The sheet layer page boundaries showed up immediately. The support guy said I might have some problems with transparent objects on printing, which I might or might not ever notice (or remember this relationship), and that it's all due to my video driver/card. This is a little unfortunate because this is my new(ish) desktop with ATI Radeon HD 5770 video card, and he seemed to indicate that the only thorough fix would be a different video card, but since I may never have any problem, I'm not going to worry about it. I haven't played with card drivers or anything yet. He also said that I could just turn on GDI+ when printing, and then problematic screen effects would be unimportant. Why am I adding all this detail to a solved problem? So I can search for it here when I forget how I solved it the first time! Oh, and maybe it will help someone else. Keith Quote Link to comment
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