Delve into the process of printing sheets to PDF with the help of various tools, including free PDF printer and blue beam PDF printer. Learn how to manage your settings, select views and sheets, and save your work to maintain a high standard of output.
Key Insights
- The process of printing sheets to PDF involves managing windows, selecting specific views and sheets to print, and adjusting settings for the best output.
- Tools like the free PDF printer and blue beam PDF printer come in handy during this process, offering options for sheet sizes and settings.
- After printing, it's crucial to review the PDFs to ensure everything looks good, further highlighting the importance of attention to detail in maintaining a high standard of work.
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Now let's print our sheets to PDF. And so what I'll do is I'm going to save and close hidden windows. That's just a habit of mine that I think is a good one to, to retain.
Cause we're not leaving many windows open. And then I'll go to file print and bulls it. PDF printer is a free one that you can download.
Um, I have that loaded, but I also like to use this blue beam PDF printer. It's a pretty good PDF editing software. If you have it, it's a great one to use.
It also has a lot of options for sheet sizes as well. Like you'll notice some do not. And so what we want to do is we're going to go ahead and have it select views and sheets.
And if you notice when I did that, it changed from combined multiple to create separate files. So I'll go ahead and move that up here and I'm going to say select so that I can pick the sheets that I want. I'm going to uncheck views cause I don't want to print any views.
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And then I'm going to pick just the sheets that we've created so far, these four, and I'll check it. And what I can do is it's cool. I can save this and call it midterm because now I've got the sheets that we created for the midterm.
And I can save them as a midterm set. Essentially. Now I need to make sure I've got the right settings.
We'll go to set up. It's going to default with a letter setting. We're going to change that.
We don't have to do this over and over again. And this is a 30 × 42 sheet. We're looking for E1 down here.
We're going to leave this to center, but you'll see as I change this to zoom, it's going to bounce around on us again. We'll go back to center and everything else looks good here. We can do a save as, and we can save it as arch E1 so that now we have a setting saved in here under our bluebeam printer or whatever PDF printer you're using under Archie one.
We'll say, okay. And if you're paranoid like me, that's fine. You can go ahead and change it to current window and do a preview.
So this is a raster view because it has these colors in the images. So it's going to give you this warning every time you print anyway. So I'll say, Oh, I'll say close here.
And there's my preview. I think everything looks great there. So I'm going to hit close again.
And then I can hit control P to get back into that printer dialogue. But the only thing I'm going to change this time is I want to make sure I have the selected views. I always double check this guy, even though we're only printing four sheets, it's not a big deal, but I always double check to make sure we're on combined because if you end up on create separate files, it'll go through every single one.
And just imagine if you were printing, I don't know, 150 sheets and you had to do that every single time. It's brutal. We don't want to do that.
So I'm gonna hit, okay, same warning we got before, and then I'll get a popup to where I want to save it after it prints all the sheets here and you can save it as your BIM 301 first last. And then I just like to add midterm to the end of that and we'll click save. I had open file checked on the end there.
So after this prints, it'll open the file and we can take a look at it. It's really important that when you print these PDFs, you don't just print them and submit them. You want to look at them, give it a good look, make sure everything looks good.
And then if you need to reprint it, go through that process just so you can maintain a, uh, high standard for yourself as well. And here's our midterm looks pretty cool, especially like this. I think that's a cool view.
And then we'll just take a look at the sheets really quickly, make sure everything looks the way we want it to. And it does. And so it's ready to submit.
So I'm going to go ahead and save. And then when we pick up and the next lesson, we're going to start working on the new edition.
