Autodesk Inventor

[#1]

Dear Autodesk, I routinely use A, B, C, and D size drawings.  C and D size go to our wide format printer and then I have to select the paper size.  It would be really nice if Inventor could automatically print D size drawings on D size paper and so on.  I'm envisioning some kind of configuration manager that I set up once and for all, then never worry about setting up printers again.  You would set a print configuration for every size of drawing.  Please consider this feature in future releases. 

[#2]

print profiles have been requested many times over the years...  (without them it makes printing from the Task Scheduler a joke as you can only print documents of the same paper-size together, and how do you know the paper-size without opening each idw, so defeating the purpose of a batch-print tool...)

all I can suggest is to use KWIKPrints for now:

http://www.kwikmcad.com/icode/KWiKPrints32_64/KWiKPrints32_64.aspx

[#3]

You can always try an addin, a great one is called Swift Prints. Here is a link to the download.

http://cadtoolbox.com/swift-prints/

[#4]

Swift prints is pretty nice, saves a lot of clicks.  Now if only it auto detected the sheet size ... thanks for the tip!

[#5]

I've bn using swift prints for about a year.  I can only use it to print to my pdfcreator.  Works great for this... two clicks and it is printed.

If I try to print to a network printer it doesnt work.  Wondering if others have the same issue with swiftprints.

[#6]

Both printers I use are networked and work just fine.  Windows 7 32 bit, Inventor 12

[#7]

Just curious: why 32-bit Windows 7?

[#8]

Our IS department doesn't support 64 bit.  This turned out for the best because we use an ancient wide printer that Xerox doesn't write 64 bit drivers for.  I have 2 computers and run 64 bit on my main workstation and print from my 32 bit laptop.  Now you know!

[#9]

Have you downloaded the latest version of Swift Prints? It's new as of 06/25/2011.

[#10]

Thomas,

Yes, I am using V2.0 (b2).  When I print via swiftprints, it sends the file to the printer. At the printer, there is a message on the screen that says "Paper Size and Type Mismatch".  If I am printing 8 1/2 x 11, I can select it from the printer screen and it prints just fine.  Our printer has 8 1/2 x 11, 11 x 17 and Ledger size loaded in it.

When I configured swiftprints, I just selected the paper size that was on the drop-down list.

Kirk