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Printing

On paper, at a real scale.

Ctrl+P, or /print.

At a scale

1. Set the scale on the SETTINGS menu, or /scale 1/4".
2. Switch to PLAN if you are printing a plan - that is the view that prints like a drawing.
3. Ctrl+P.

A quarter inch to the foot means a quarter inch on the paper, measured with a real ruler. The scale is not the zoom: zoom in as far as you like and the print does not change.

Full size, over several sheets

/print full prints the drawing at 1:1 across as many sheets as it takes. Every sheet is trimmed on a marked line, and the last strip of each repeats the start of the next, so they stitch without a gap. That is how a pattern comes off a desktop printer and onto the material.

/print all prints every sheet of the file in front. /tiles writes the same tiles out as pictures instead - for a print shop, or for seeing how many sheets it would take without using any.

What prints and what does not

Guides, the grid, and the red-green-blue axis lines are working marks and never print. Dimensions, notes and edges do.