Discover the process of packaging all your sheets into one file by printing a PDF. Understand how to effectively make use of the PDF export feature, regardless of the software you have, and learn how to select specific views and sheets for printing.
Key Insights
- The PDF export feature is a useful tool for compiling all your sheets into one file. This is particularly helpful when you want to create a comprehensive document featuring different views and sheets.
- Proper settings must be ensured before exporting the file to PDF. These include setting the zoom to 100%, using the sheet size, checking the 'hide unreference view tags' option, and ensuring crop boundaries are visible. Incorrect settings may result in an inaccurate representation of your work.
- Remember to save your settings before exporting the PDF. This allows for easy reference or modifications later on if there are errors in the printed sheets or if you need to make changes. Also, always double-check your sheets before finalizing to prevent any missing elements or overlaps.
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So to close out the class here, what we're going to do is we're going to print a PDF to have all of our sheets packaged in one file. And to do that, what I like to do is I like to use this PDF export. I personally have Adobe PDF, so I could do it a little differently, but most people I know don't.
And this oftentimes ends up working out a little bit better. And so we're going to do this selected views and sheets. And so it says all sheets, but we definitely don't want that because we don't really know what that includes.
And so when I go over here, this is what's going to pop up. So it's a filter that says all sheets. And then I'll just say in session, display filter.
So you can see the filters got many different things going on here. So I'll just uncheck that, uncheck the hide unchecked views. And then what we can do is we can display this filter to just say all sheets and then uncheck the 2D views.
And now you can see all the sheets that are part of our set. And so the ones that I want to print are all the ID sheets that we've created. And if you wanted to, you could adjust the print order.
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We don't need to do that. We're good to go here. So I'll click select.
And so those are the sheets that we're going to print. And then we want to make sure it's set to use sheet size. And then whenever we're printing, we're going to set this zoom to 100.
When we get to the bottom of this setting here, we want to go ahead and check this hide unreference view tags. If there's any sections or elevations that you drew in the process of creating this project, those will get hidden if they weren't put on a sheet. The other thing, if you recall, we want to make sure we don't hide our crop boundaries because we're using our crop boundaries to print our sheets.
And so that means if we don't want to see them around things like our enlarge views, which I left those on our fitness center plans, because I forgot about this part, then you want to make sure that you get those hidden. And so I'm click on this view. You can see there's crop view, crop region visible.
If I uncheck the crop region visible portion, that'll go away. And so if I go to 103 and do the same thing, crop region visible goes away. And then I'll even double check my other ones to make sure I got it.
And I'm pretty sure we did when we did the midterm, but we always want to double check because it's easier to double check right now than it is to catch it after you print and then have to go back and redo it. So everything looks good there. So I'll pop back into our print settings and it should have left everything the same, but we can double check because again, like I said, we want to make sure we got what we want.
And you can see here, all the sheets look good. We'll click select settings, sheet size. This is the one that gets everybody right here, getting that zoom set correctly and making sure it uses that correct sheet size.
Everything looks good. Hide crop regions need to be turned off. Hide on reference view tags needs to be turned on.
Everything else looks good. So I'm going to click export. If you wanted to, you can save these settings.
So I'll say yes. And these will be my, we'll call it final PDF settings. And this will be good if you, after you print, you see something's wrong, then you've got it saved.
So you don't have to go back and do it all over again. And there's one more setting that I forgot to mention because I took it for granted, but you want to make sure that you determine your location of where you're printing it as well. And if you did what I did and didn't pay attention to it, then you can pop back in here and it tells you where your PDF went to.
So mine has finished printing. And so I'll just kind of flip through the sheets like we've done in the past here. You always want to make sure your sheets look good.
Just as a side note too, it also took quite a while for this to print. And that's just how it goes sometimes when we're using the shaded graphics, it does take a little bit longer. And so just flip through the sheets, make sure they're all good to go.
Things I'm looking for here, I just want to make sure there's no blatant overlaps, things missing, that I've got kind of everything filled out in here so that the sheets are easy to identify. And then it's ready to go. And that'll be the final submission would be all the sheets that we've created for this class.
