![]() ![]() measure a wall that you know is 20' long. In 1/4" = 1'0" scale the wall should measure 5" long. Divide your desired distance, 5" by your actual distance, lets say 3". This number 1.66666 is your scaling percentage. Your image must be 166.666% larger in order to print to scale.Ħ. At the top of the screen input your percentage, in this case 166.666 and make sure to link the "W" and "H" values with the link button in between them.Ĩ. Use measure tool to check for accuracy (the longer the dimension you use the more accurate you can be)ĩ. Print with Preview, choose appropriate paper and orientation in page setup, make sure not to scale to print or scale to paper in print settings.īe careful, measure accurately, you will have precisely scaled drawings to work with. Please respond with questions, corrections, or better ideas. I've only got a few hairs left on my head and I'm t h i s far from running out and buying my first pack of cigarettes in three years. #Sketchup print to scale windowsĪfter a dozen tutorials on printing to scale you are the first to direct my attention to the "in the printout" and "in sketchup" windows in the print dialogue. Why isn't that in the "official" sketchup tutorial? I filled the boxes as shown. I don't know how the heck you were able to accomplsh the attachment you posted above. Are you using pro version? Why is it converted to PDF? Is that part of my problem? My laptop screen resolution is 1680 x 1050. Is there a way to set the borders of the screen space you are working within to correspond to an 8.5 X 11 sheet of paper? Not even necessarily to scale at that point. I only mean that if I could work in that space from the very beginning I would not run into so many scaling problems. What I'm trying to do is get those images to scale on a sheet and write text around them so that I can fit it all on one page. I'd like to put the images on the page far right and reduce the block of text in order to fit to the left. I finally downloaded the trial version of pro and was able to eventually get my file to print in scale by opening it in Layout 2 and selecting 1:1 in the right menu on that screen. ![]()
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