How to setup a print of a technical drawing in Rhino

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Layout the print

Introduction

It is important to print the 2D technical drawing at the right scale and layout. Because of the drawing conventions, the rules for layout and scale of the drawing in relation to its content are strict. Information of the layout, scale and detail of the drawings can be found at : http://wiki.bk.tudelft.nl/bk-wiki/Bouwtechnisch_Tekenen:_Layout. Please read this content before setting up your drawing.

Creating a layout

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To create a layout you need to define the size of the print, like an A1 or A3. This will directly relate to the size of scaled information you want to place on the print. For creating a layout go to View Menu » Layout » New Layout » 














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This will open a menu which allows you to setup the your print. There are several options available:

  • Name: It is always wise to name the layout. It is possible to make multiple layouts so naming them can help you to sort out the different technical drawings.
  • Printer: This allows you to directly print to a printer or to a file which can be printed later.
  • Size: This setting will allow you to select the size of the print. This can be done by selecting a preset within the menu
  • Portrait or Landscape: If you select a standard print format it is necessary to define the orientation of the selected print format. This can be either Landscape or Portrait.
  • Custom: If a standard paper size doesn't suffice, you can customize your size by filling in the with and height of your print
  • Detail: You can leave this setting to its default setting.

After making the adjustments, press OK.

The layout

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The layout becomes visible. On the right side you can see the setting for the Layout which you still can change by using the edit option. At the bottom of the screen you can see the view tab with the layout name. You can make several layouts which become visible as tabs in the viewtabs bar. The object will fill the paper space. That means that the correct scale still has to be set.

The layout scale

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If you click on the border of the drawing you will get a menu at the right side giving you the scale of the drawing. In this case the scale is 1 mm on the paper will resemble 36.482 mm in real life. That is not a working scale. If you change the scale from 36.482 to 100 you will have a 1:100 scale drawing. What you will see is that the drawing becomes smaller on the paper. That is in line with the change of the scale.






Changing the border of the drawing

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At a scale of 1:00 the drawing becomes a bit small for the paper size. If you select the border you can scale it to a more appropriate size, freeing up space for other parts of the drawing. If you double click inside the border starts to behave like a viewport which allows you to move the drawing to the center of the border. If you double click again inside the border the position will be fixed.

Be aware when you zoom inside the border, it works like a viewport, the scale will change. So always check the scale after you moved the drawing within the border

Adding another border

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Often there will be more drawings on one A1. You can add an additional border by View Menu » Layout » Add Detail View » .This border will behave like the fist one. The scale can be different from the other border. This allows you to combine multiple drawings of different scales in one printout.





Printing the A1

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Once the content is defined of the A1 it can be printed by File Menu » Print » 

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