Prints the active document.
To print the active document:
Click Print (Standard toolbar) or , select from the options described below, and then click OK.
Document Printer
Name | Specifies the printer. The system provides read-only information about the printer's status, type, and location. If the printer type uses a vector-only print driver such as a pen plotter, the output does not contain raster output such as shared views, draft quality views, SpeedPak views, or bitmaps.
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Properties | Sets options that are specific to the selected printer. |
Page Setup | Specifies page setup options and advanced printer options such as scale, orientation, and resolution. |
Preview | Previews the image of the active document before you send it to the printer. |
Document options
Header/Footer | Use the following options in the Header/Footer dialog box to specify
headers and footers for the active document:
View read-only previews in Header preview and Footer preview. |
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Line Thickness | Specifies the line thickness that works best with your printer or plotter. See Document Properties - Line Thickness. |
System options
You can set margins for the printed document. These settings are saved for all SOLIDWORKS documents.
Margins | Use the following options in the Margins dialog box to specify custom margin values or to use the printer's default margin values:
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Print Range
Entire model | Prints the model. Not available for Drawings. |
All sheets (Drawings only) | Prints all sheets of a drawing document. |
Current sheet (Drawings only) | Prints the current drawing sheet. |
Current screen image | Prints the image on the screen. |
Selection (Drawings only) | Prints a selected area of a drawing sheet at a scale you specify. |
Sheets (Drawings only) | Prints drawing sheets you enter. Separate sheets numbers by commas, or use a dash - to indicate a range. |
Options
Select from the following options. The last set state is remembered on subsequent prints during the current SOLIDWORKS session only.
Number of copies | Sets the number of copies to print. |
Print background | Prints the window background, in addition to the model or drawing. |
Print to file | Prints to a file instead of the printer. Type a name for the file in the Print to File dialog box. |
Convert draft quality drawing views to high quality (Drawings only) | Converts the current draft quality view into high quality for printing purposes only. |
Print cross hatch on out-of-date views | Specifies what happens when you Print (or Print Preview) a drawing that contains out-of-date views, with Allow auto-update when opening drawings cleared in System Options - Drawings. (If Allow auto-update when opening drawings is selected, the views update automatically, and the crosshatch is removed whenever you print the drawing.) |
Print white lines, text in black (Drawings only) | Prints white lines and black text. |
Print grid (Drawings only) | Prints gridlines. Gridlines in drawings are printed no closer than 5 mm to each
other, as measured on the paper.
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Print zone lines (Drawings only) | Prints zone lines. |
3D Printing
Prints to a 3D rapid prototype printer (Drawings only). A 3D printer and print driver must be available.