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Printable Area in Layout

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:26:18 GMT

When I make a new Layout a new Page Setup called *Layout1* is created and assigned to the new Layout. Our plotter is assigned as the plot device, and a dashed rectangle showing printable area appears near the borders of the white sheet area represented in the Layout. If I choose to Modify the layout, and I change the Paper size, the dashed rectangle disappears, and now I don't know how to position and size a title block to ensure that it stays within the printable area. What controls the presence of the dashed print area rectangle?

Dan

Re: Printable Area in Layout

jcp — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:17:00 GMT

On the Display tab of the Options dialog box there is a check box for Display Printable Area that should be checked.

Re: Printable Area in Layout

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:00:59 GMT

Thanks. That seems to be a system setting, and it is checked, but still I see the printable area in some drawings, and not in others, even when that setting is checked in all drawings. All drawings are set to the same Printer/plotter (and driver), all drawings are set to Plot area / Layout. Okay, I just found the culprit- if I set the Paper size to Arch D, I see the dashed printable area rectangle. If I set the Paper size to Arch E1, the dashed rectangle disappears. But why?

Re: Printable Area in Layout

jcp — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:13:35 GMT

It sounds like the Printable Area got changed in the Arch E1 paper size. Open the Plotter Configuration Editor and on the Device and Document Settings tab select Modify Standard Paper Sizes (Printable Area). Select the Arch E1 paper and see if the margins got changed to 0.

Re: Printable Area in Layout

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:28:04 GMT

Yes they did! Thanks- that takes care of it.

Re: Printable Area in Layout

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:58:51 GMT

I am having the same problem. I have multiple layout tabs with a different page size for each tab, but when I view the paper size margins, all of the paper sizes have 0 as the margin, yet the printable space shows up on some layout tabs and not others. Care to explain a little further how this is corrected?

Re: Printable Area in Layout

jcp — Thu, 01 May 2014 10:40:41 GMT

Setting the Paper Size Margin to 0 makes the print area dashed lines disappear. I am not sure what the correct values would be for your plotter but the values for the HP DesignJet 1050C here on an E1 size sheet are 0.52 for the top and bottom and 0.20 for the left and right sides.

I am not sure why the print area isn't showing on some of you layouts but I would try adjusting the margin values on one of the paper sizes to something other than 0 and see if the print area show up. If that works repeat the process for the other Paper Sizes.

Re: Printable Area in Layout

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:09:08 GMT

please, anyone knows how to fix this paperspace printable area?

autocad14 for mac

thanks if anyone can help

eliana

Re: Printable Area in Layout

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 23:10:42 GMT

It does not make too much sense to me but that is what happened to me. I created a custom sheet size 30"x 54". In the sheet size box for width I wrote 30 and for height 54 and saved it. Then when I chose that size ( User 1 30x54 inches) in the page setup manager for plotting the printable dash line disappeared. I chose a standard size it appeared again. After hours of searching and comparing I found out that I had to write 30.00 and 54.00 instead of only 30 and 54, Then the box reappeared. Everything looks normal except the issue was the dot-zeros. Our computer savvy was also surprised about this matter when I told him and he tested and confirmed my finding. So make sure you put those .00s.

Re: Printable Area in Layout

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:45:16 GMT

yes!it did work fine to me as well. I have read somewhere else about this.

thanks

Re: Printable Area in Layout

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:08:45 GMT

Thanks.

Re: Printable Area in Layout

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 15:33:31 GMT

Go to TOOLS > OPTIONS > DISPLAY > LAYOUT
ELEMENTS > Uncheck "Display printable area"