what is the best practice when printing layouts?
I have a project where there are multiple pages, most of them are the same size (legal in this current project), but some parts are “tall” and benefit from a portrait layout, where others are “wide” and benefit from a landscape layout.
when I print, I’ve been printing 2x, once where I maintain portrait and once when I maintain landscape orientation. I then need to manually combine the PDFs to get the proper prints.
I cannot change a layout so the viewport is rotated. the boundary rotates but the contents are always y/z up. Since I cannot do that, I inset pages in portrait and landscape so I can create drawings of “tall” items and give a decent view. is it possible to rotate the contents of a layout view, how?
is there a way to have the pages auto rotate and scale to a particular media (i.e. all landscape ARCH- A or whatever…), I hate printing 2x!
whats the best practice?
John
(yes this post would be better with pictures, but I think you know what I’m talking about )
The real fix for this problem is for Layouts to carry full print information.
Currently, the print setup stays with Rhino, not with your individual layouts. This is why different page sizes don’t work either.
I know this major enhancement to printing is on the Wish List. It is a big enough development task I don’t have a guess when it might show up in a future version of Rhino.
Maybe I’m confused about the request, but Rhino 8 supports printing different layout sizes to a single PDF. I’m not at my computer at the moment so I can’t provide a screenshot, but there is an option on the print dialog for using layout sizes
As Steve mentioned, printing mixed orientations to a single PDF file works fine in Rhino 8.
Details on a layout are like windows in a wall. Rotating the window doesn’t affect the view. You need to rotate the camera.
You can rotate the camera, either by creating a custom CPlane that is aligned with the object and setting the detail to a plan view of that custom CPlane, or by tilting the view. The following macro will tilt a view 90°:
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