Printing full scale 2D templates in Rhino 5 for Mac

I’m having fits printing full scale part templates from Rhino, I’ve tried to read all the prior entries relating to this topic and still can’t get an accurate print. I’ve dimensioned the part in question so it would print that out as well as a means of checking accuracy.

In the 3D drawing file, the part is at an angle to the normal right view, so I start by orienting camera view to surface after aligning the construction plane to the surface. I can pull accurate dimensions off the part to verify the part is as it should be. I create a new layout and verify the same orientation as in the viewport. I then hit command print, check paper orientation, set scale to 1:1 (if need be) and print hard copy. The printed image is never printed 1:1. What am I doing wrong? Is it unreasonable to expect to get accurate prints from Rhino?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,

The viewport should be parallel and at scale 1:1, and your printer should be set to 1:1 scale as well.
Check your Layout detail properties (click on the edge), if the “Scale” fields are greyed out, it is not a parallel viewport. Another clue is that you cannot dimension the layout detail (without opening it and putting the dimensions in the model), you did not say how you were incorporating dimensions.

In that case you should modify it to a parallel viewport in the model, go to the menu “View” and look for “Show Viewport Properties Panel”. You will see the click buttons in the “Projection” section. Then create a Layout Detail with the same viewport.

Max.