Design & Tech CAD
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Detailing
GA's and BOM
BOM -
Sub Asm
Explode States
Spline curves
Printing
3D Data Standards
Printing Engineering drawings
Printers:
A4
in XX001
A3/A4 in
XX031
A0 at IT Services
Print dialogue window
To ensure the sheet print 1:1 - Print > Configure > Model > Full Plot
If there's an issue, you can centralise the border on the paper using the Offset options
Config options
To adjust line weight on laser printers - Tools > Options > pen[n]_line_weight
Pens 1 to 8 are assigned to different drawing entities
pen1 - solid edges - set to 2 as default but as long as you haven't got too much small detail [lines will overlap] might be better set to 3
pen2 - dimensions
WYSIWYG - what you see is what you get.
Turn off reference geometry - planes, axis, csys, points.
Hide datum curves - use your layers
Printing to PDF
The Save as PDF option directly from ProE is not brilliant - it may show hidden line and axis as solid dependent on the scale of your view - something to do with working in metric units!
In XX001/2 > File > Print and choose the PDF generator in the printer list - this will give you a better PDF. You may have to tinker with the Pen Weight options as mentioned above