How to create a unique paper size in drawings?

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• OpenR2 OS Professional Posts: 188 ✭✭✭

  March 2016

  I see how to make a new drawing interactively but you can only pick standard sizes. Is there any plans to let the user type in a specific paper size?

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• jon_mcintyre Onshape Employees Posts: 56

  March 2016 Answer ✓

  Right now there's no way to do this directly in Onshape, so yes, you'd have to create a blank dwg file elsewhere and import it as a template.   I suggest making two enhancement requests.  One to make E and F size sheets available, and another to request support for a custom size in the "Custom Template" section of the drawings creation dialog.   These sizes are more difficult to implement than the choices we provide now, so making enhancement requests will make a difference in whether and how soon we do them.

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• Prachi Member, OS Professional Posts: 262 ✭✭✭

  July 2016

  Very much need custom sheet sizes. Working with large 1:1 scale print outs for customer. Custom drawing formats directly in OS would be nice but more important to have full scale print outs.

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• Maximum Member Posts: 2 ✭

  December 2016

  I agree with Glen, I often need to have 1:1 sheets for dxf to send out to laser.

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• A_Pare Member Posts: 4 PRO

  April 2017

  Any update on this? We also need the same for laser cutting parts that need to be sent to laser!
  
  

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• brennan_natoli Member Posts: 17 EDU

  January 2023

  It would be great to be able to create custom drawing sizes. A must have for the CNC and laser. Any thoughts Onshape???

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• PeteYodis Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 541

  January 2023

  We've had custom sheet sizes for 5+ years now:
  
  

  

  Improvements to Onshape - May 24th, 2017 — Onshape

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• elliot_scully847 Member Posts: 2 EDU

  February 9

  the issue with changing the number of columns/rows is that you need to have the border enabled, this causes extra work when using a laser as you have to then remove the border manually after
  
  PeteYodis said:

  We've had custom sheet sizes for 5+ years now:
  
  

  

  Improvements to Onshape - May 24th, 2017 — Onshape

  
  

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• wayne_sauder Member, csevp Posts: 549 PRO

  February 9

  If you are dealing with CNC cutting why not send the DXF from the face of the part? (skip the drawing sheet.)

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• dirk_van_der_vaart Member Posts: 547 ✭✭✭

  February 9

  RMB on the face you want to export and select export DXF, same for flat pattern,s 

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