PAC4SWX printer settings

PAC4SWX is a tool to print and convert SolidWorks drawing. With PAC4SWX you can choose multiple drawings from your filesystem and print or convert all sheets of all drawings in one step. PAC4SWX will take care of the different sheet sizes.

Printer settings

You can set the values for printing for the different sheetsizes in a SolidWorks drawing sheet. If you feel comfortable with your settings click the OK-button, if you want to reject any chances made in this dialog hit the Cancel-button.

The settings can be saved on a user-bases in the main dialog. If you want to store the settings in a file or read them from a file you may do so from the main dialog.

Each row represents one of the known sheet sizes by SolidWorks. In the columns you can enter the settings and options for the specific sheet size:

• Size
  Here is the list for the known sheet sizes
  Update 1.12.0: click "Size" label to get a dialog where you can change the values which are used to evaluate the sheetsizes in SolidWorks
• Printer
  All installed printers (local printer as well as network-printers) are listed in this dropdows. You can set the printer individually for each sheet size.
  If no printer is set PAC4SWX will use the printer listed at "other", if there is also no printer set the standard printer from SolidWorks will be used.
• Sheetsize
  Here you can set the sheetsize, which the selected printer will use for output. The possible sheetsizes are gathered from the printer itself and only availible formats will show up. Example: if you want to print out all C-Sheet to D-Size go to row with Size C select a printer, which is able to print to D-size format and select D-size in the column Sheetsize. If no sheetsize is selected for the printers the standard sheetsize of that printer is used.
• Scale
  In this column you can set the scale for all sheets with this Size. Scale 0 means "scale to fit". If you want to set a numeric scale you have to deselect the Scale to fit checkbox. 
• Scale to fit
  If Scale to fit is set the SolidWorks drawing sheet will be scaled to fit into the choosen printer sheet format. Note that this usually don't is a 1:1 print, for the printable area is usually not the same as the sheetsize of the printer. If this option is not set you can enter a numeric scale.
• more
  Opens up a second dialog where you can set the printer line width which should be used for the Size. This functions needs SolidWorks 2001 SP4 or higher.

  Linewidth (Thin, Normal, thick, ...) You can set the different linewidth like in SolidWorks. All values are in millimeters. Use this line width You have to check this option if you want PAC4SWX to use the entered linewidth.  Get Get the active linewidth settings from SolidWorks and fills them in the textboxes. Set The entered values are set in SolidWorks Ok All values are set in PAC4SWX and the dialog closes Abbrechen Discard all changes and close dialog

  The checkbox in the more column of the printer settings dialog is only for information whether the linewidth settings for this Size are used or not. The value is the same as the Use this line width in the Linewidth setting dialog.

• Use "other" for all sheet sizes
  If this option is set the printer and other settings in the row other will be used regardless of the SolidWorks drawing sheet size. This is usefull if you want to use another printer as the standard printer from SolidWorks or want to print huge amounts of drawings and complete sets to one printer.
• Ignore documents header/footer when printing
  If set PAC4SWX will ignore custom defined header and footer for printing. The option is useful with SolidWorks 2001Plus, where the header/footer are stored with the document. If you generate prints to archive you would otherwise have to check each drawing if header/footer is set by a previous user of that drawing.

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