How do I print a drawing to scale in mm to my desktop printer?

michael_morais

I need to print an image of my drawing to scale on my printer. the image is not larger than an average sheet of paper, but every time i print out the drawing it is a different size? I need it in MM scale. Please help

christopher_quijano

Look under your print options and make sure you are not scaling your document to fit. The scale to fit option shrinks your printout to fit within the printers margins. You do not want this is you are trying to print true scale.

michael_morais

When I uncheck that option and select 1:1 MM I get a blank page?

andrew_troup

For the situation where a drawing is to be printed at a larger scale, it seems to me that Onshape need to implement the same dotted rectangle which comes up on screen after you choose "print" from within a model, along with the ability to drag that rectangle so it embraces the item you wish to print. 
I hope in due course they will also implement a well-considered "tiling" facility, so that a large drawing can be printed at a large scale, even on small format printer, and put together like a mosaic.
This has been a longstanding weakness of CAD packages on DOS and Windows platforms, whereas it was effortlessly possible on a Mac from MacDraw in the mid 1980s, and its CAD successor ClarisCAD.

christopher_quijano

What size of drawing template are you using and what does your printer support?

ulrich_kracker

Hi,
I have the same  problem as "michael_morais" but I do not even get offered any "print options" with an selection-opprtunity of "scale 1:1".
And: how can the dotted rectangel be draged? I cannot select the dotted rectangle at all.

Yours sincerely
Ulrich

dirk_loeckx

I had the same problem. If you print from the Part Studio or Assembly, I don't think there is much of a scale. To get a scaled print, you have to create a Drawing (right-click on Part Studio). Then you can set the scale and generate a scaled pdf.