topic Re: Recentering the drawing after printing in AutoCAD Forum

Recentering the drawing after printing

MarkFitz — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:33:23 GMT

This is one of those "simple if you know the answer" and impossible if you don't ones.

If I'm in paperspace, and zoom in to print a detail, some part of the drawing, but not the whole thing, the next time I go to print, the white background has adjusted its size and shape to that which I previously printed. How do I resize it to show the whole drawing, and moreover, how do I recenter it permanently, I've tried recentering it manually by adjusting the X and Y offset values in the lower left corner of the print menu screen, but I have to maintain these offsets in order to keep the drawing centered. Shouldn't I be able to set it up so that 0,0 on the X,Y offset shows the drawing as centered?

Cheers to all, and a happy Friday!

MarkF

Re: Recentering the drawing after printing

fkellogg — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:36:27 GMT

Is your "Save Changes To Layout" checked?
Under Plot Options on the right.

Re: Recentering the drawing after printing

Kent1Cooper — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:37:56 GMT

Uncheck this in the Plot dialog box:

Re: Recentering the drawing after printing

MarkFitz — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:05:50 GMT

It is already unchecked. I only have the remaining 3 that you show in your screen shot checked, Kent.

Re: Recentering the drawing after printing

MarkFitz — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:13:18 GMT

Notice the X & Y offsets in order to make this drawing print as centered. And the preview showing how much off-center it should be.

How do I reset this to zero or whatever I SHOULD be set to?

Re: Recentering the drawing after printing

cadffm — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 01:23:53 GMT

Set up the plot area new..

(Plot area "Layout" is the worst choice)

Please try this:

Set up the Plot area by WINDOW and apply it to the layout (what means a save this setting as pagesetup) ,

perhaps you need to do a plot on time, I am not now.

After this step you can set the area back to Layout if you want to use this method.

All right now?