Sheet Targetting

On the Sheet Targetting page, you can setup the printers to use with the specific sheet sizes. The default printer defined by the sheet size is used only to the source documents created on to the sheet size matching with the printer rule. Source documents that does not match with any of the sheet size based printer rules, are printed using the printer defined on the Default Printer page.



Defining the Default Printer by the Sheet Size:

Printer Defines the printer device or, a software based document printer used by default for printing the selected SOLIDWORKS documents.
Source The Source box defines the source tray of paper in the printer selected from the Printer box. The sources available in the Source box are retrieved automatically based on the printer selected.
Paper size Defines the paper size to print selected documents on.
Orientation In the Orientation box, you can select to print documents either portrait or landscape orientation to the target paper.
Scaling Select the Zoom to fit option to automatically fit the source document to a size of the paper selected in the Paper size box.
Find printer Click the Find printer link to search for a printer available in your environment.

Click the + button to create a printer rule for the desired paper size. The Derive new rule for sheet size box appears to choose the paper size to assign a printer rule to. Using the Print & Convert Profile Wizard, you can define printer rules only by the paper size.

Info To make printer rules by the SOLIDWORKS Sheet Format Files (*.drt, *.slddrt), use the CUSTOMTOOLS Printer Profile Wizard available in the CUSTOMTOOLS Print Properties options.



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Related Topics

Selecting the batch operation type to create a new profile for
Defining the default printer for your new batch priting profile
Finalize your new printing profile by giving a name for it

Defining the source and output file types for your new File Conversion Rule
Setting up the output path and file naming rule for your new File Conversion Rule
Defining a name for your new File Conversion Rule

Use the Print/Convert feature to batch print your SOLIDWORKS documents
Setup the printer to print the documents with using the Print Profile Wizard in the CUSTOMTOOLS Options

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