Please guys. This is the only issue preventing me from diving into your software and it’s driving me nuts.
The following screenshots show my settings and a print of a basic line drawing I just scribbled for trial reasons.
What am I doing wrong? I use Autocad everyday and desperately want to switch to Rhino but this is holding me up. I just want to be able to print at the correct scale. Simple?
No.
Hi @Cheryl_Adams
No screenshots attached. Please post both screenshots, the 3DM file and the result from running the SystemInfo command in Rhino.
-Jakob
Windows 11 (10.0.22631 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 15GB)
.NET 7.0.0
Computer platform: LAPTOP - Plugged in [80% battery remaining]
Hybrid graphics configuration.
Primary display: AMD Radeon™ Graphics (AMD) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 12-23-2021 (M-D-Y).
> Integrated accelerated graphics device with 3 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port
Primary OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU (NVidia) Memory: 4GB, Driver date: 9-26-2024 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 565.90
> Integrated accelerated graphics device (shares primary device ports)
- Video pass-through to primary display device
OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
GPU Tessellation is: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)
Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High
Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 9-26-2024
Driver Version: 32.0.15.6590
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 4 GB
Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Enscape\Enscape.Rhino.Plugin-net48\Enscape.Rhino8.Plugin.dll “Enscape.Rhino8.Plugin” 4.2.1.88
What is “the correct scale”? As @martinsiegrist mentions, the scale is set to 40.5 and your paper is set to A4 - this results in the 7000mm line being 172.84mm on paper, which is correct. The nearest conventional scale is 1:50, so either - as mentioned - dbl.click or just select the detail and set it to 1:50.
Thanks for your input Jakob, I’m really stumped. I double clicked on the layout window and set scale to 1:50 (which is the scale I’m aiming for) and this is the resulting print out on paper…
Out by a fair amount. Any ideas?
I won’t keep bugging you if you can’t show me the way.
I just dont know who can help. I have now read about 30 threads on this issue online with no answers. Thanks again Jakob
It’s printing the right size on the pdf for me (once the detail scale is changed to 1:50). Is it possibly the pdf to paper step that’s messing up the scale?
I printed a document from Autocad @ 1:100. It prints perfectly to scale. Is there an issue at the printer setting in Rhino perhaps? It’s quite irritating because it’s almost teasing me by printing close, but not correct. I’m using the same printer for both prints.
THANK YOU GUYS!!!
Turns out print to PDF was screwing things up. Direct printing to printer works!
Apologies for my frustration, and thank you for all your input.
There are settings when printing from PDF that can be missed where the print output will be scaled. This isn’t printing from Rhino → PDF; I’m referring to the process of printing PDF->Printer
I have experienced this or a very similar issue in R7 when printing to an office A3 printer. It did seem to be something to do with the way Rhino makes PDFs, and the way these PDFs interact with non-plotter printers.
To be clear: the PDF itself is correctly scaled but it seems that something about the way Rhino makes PDFs means that the A3 office printer always imposes margins on the print. Ensuring that the print settings are set to “non-scaling 100%” didn’t solve this issue. Nor did turning off ‘show background’ in Rhino PDF settings.
I tried all possible print settings at the PDF > A3 printer stage but was unable to make it work. In the end I had to adjust the margins of my layouts and print at 101% as a hacky workaround. Not ideal!
Sounds like perhaps it would be worth someone who knows about these things comparing a Rhino PDF with an Autocad PDF.
Way too many things have changed since Rhino 7 to be able to use that as a reference to anything anymore. If you find something in Rhino 8, please post specifics.
-wim