Print Management

This topic explains the options in the Print tab.

You can access the Print tab in the following ways:
  • Click Electrical Project > Print .
  • In a dockable panel, right-click an electrical project and click Print .
  • In a dockable panel, right-click a book and click Print . Only the drawings in that book are selected for printing.
An option dialog box opens to let you update the report and terminal strip drawings according to the electrical project configuration settings.
  • Update drawings: All the reports, design rules, and terminal strip drawings update before the command runs.
  • Continue action without updating: Report, design rule, and terminal strip drawings do not update before the command runs.
  • Cancel: Cancels the action. Drawings do not update.

You can save print settings to a configuration file for future use. You can create as many configuration files as you require.

Option Description
Print preview. Opens a print preview window for the selected drawing.
Remove from selection. Removes the selected drawings from the selection.
Print several configurations. Prints drawings using several different configurations.
List mode. Displays a list of drawings.
Thumbnail mode. Displays thumbnail previews for the drawings.
Configuration. Manages display settings for items in the dialog box.
Drawing style. Lets you change the settings of text and color objects. A message informs you if you did not assign a Drawing style configuration file to the electrical project.

Print Configuration

Lets you select a previously created print configuration file to load preferred print settings. Click … to access Print configuration management.

Page Settings

  • Name: Select the printer you want to use. Click Properties if you want to access the Windows printer parameters.
  • Paper format: Select the predefined paper format managed by the printer.
  • Source: Select the paper source to use.

Orientation

  • Portrait/Landscape: Select the page orientation.
  • Plot with symmetry: Select this option if you want to print the graphical entities with symmetry.

Drawings

  • All/Selection: Lets you choose to print all the drawings of the electrical project or a selection. Click … to select the drawings. For more information, see Document Selector.
  • Invert print order: Select this option to print the drawings in reverse order from last to first.

Scale

Select a pre-defined scale ratio or enter a specific ratio (Unit printed = Drawing unit). When you select a predefined ratio, two fields display the printed and drawing units. Fit to format scales the graphical entities to fit into the selected paper size.

Copies

  • Number of copies: Defines the number of copies to print.
  • Collate: (Available if you select more than one copy) Lets you assemble the printed drawings.

Plot Area

Defines the drawing area to print.
  • All geometry: Area defined by the bounding box of all visible entities.
  • Drawing boundary: Area defined by the grid zone in drawing parameters.
  • Current view: Area visible on the screen or the current view when drawing is saved.

Plot With Style

Each screen color used on the graphical entities corresponds to a color and a thickness on the paper. If you do not use a Plot style table, the screen colors and line thickness will be the same on the paper. You can define a personal correspondence using plot style tables. For more information, see Modifying Plot Styles for Printing.

In the list, select the plot style table you want to use. To edit the plot style table, click Modify plot style table file. A dialog box opens to let you associate each screen color with a printed color and thickness. In the plot style table list, if you select None, you can select Plot with line thickness. The colors and line thicknesses will be the same on the screen and on the paper.

Print Configuration Management

To access the Print configuration management dialog box, click : Print management > Print configuration > ....

If you have several different configurations for printing drawings, select a configuration file from the list and select the drawings to print with this configuration. Repeat this operation as required with other configuration files. Click Print several configurations and verify the configurations you want to print with.

Use New, Duplicate, and Delete on the right of the dialog box to create, copy, or delete configuration files.