Print Dialog

To open the Windows Print dialog box

  • select File -> Print... on the Main Menu Bar or

  • use the keyboard combination CTRL+P or

  • select the Print button on the Standard Toolbar or

  • right-click on a folder or an individual sheet in the Sheet View of the Project Window and select the Print... command on the displayed context menu.

     

    When the command is activated on an individual sheet name, this sheet is already entered in the dialog box as the sheet to be printed. Activating the command on a folder name selects all sheets below that level for printing. Multiple sheets can be selected for printing by using the CTRL and/or SHIFT keys when selecting the sheets.

     

    The following dialog will be displayed:

     

 

Print
Printer

Name

Selects the printer you want to use.

Properties

Select this option to open the Printer Properties dialog box.

 

This dialog enables you to change additional printer-specific settings.

Print to file

Prints the sheet(s) to a file rather than to the printer. The file can be sent to the printer at a later time.
Print Range

All

Select this option to print all of the sheets.

Current sheet

Select this option to print the current sheet only.

Sheets

Select this option to print one or several sheets.

 

In the associated text box enter the number of the sheet(s) to be printed separated by semicolons.

Selection

Use this option to print selected objects of the drawing.
Copies

Number of copies

Specifies the number of copies to print.

Collate

Prints a complete set of pages, followed by another complete set of pages, and so on, until the total number of copies specified has been printed.
Scale

Fit/Factor

You can either set a scale factor (Factor:) or automatically scale the drawing as large as possible within the limits of your paper (Fit:).

Split automatically on printer pages

Note

This option can only be activated/deactivated, when a Factor was defined in the Scale section.

 

This button becomes active when the output is to be scaled. The pages are now spread over several pages so that the whole information can be output with the desired scale factor.
Margins

Top/Bottom /Left/Right

Sets page margins for printing.
Options

Print black and white

Prints all text and lines in black rather than color or shades of gray.


In the case of solid color fills, the output depends on how dark the fill is.
By default, this option is inactive.

Print line width non-scaled

Select this option to print lines with the width defined in E3..


This might be required if, for example, the project contains DINA0 and DINA3 sheets and all lines are drawn with the same width (for example 1 mm).

 

With this option inactive, the lines on the DINA3 sheet, output on a DINA4 printer, would be thicker than on the DINA0 format sheet.

 

With this option active, the lines are always drawn with the same width (as defined in E3). This is done independent of the output's scaling. With a scaling too large and corresponding line width, it may happen that lines overlap. The printout is then no longer readable.

Use sheet orientation

Using this option, it is possible to switch from Portrait to Landscape, dependent on the sheet format. I.e. when the sheet format is wider than high, the system optionally switches from Portrait to Landscape, and vice versa.

 

When this option is checked (by default), the printer's setting is ignored, and the sheet orientation that corresponds to the sheet to be printed is defined.

 

This setting is valid for a E3.series session; when exiting E3.series, this setting is saved under HKCU\Software\Zuken\E3.series\<version>\Settings\PrintUsingSheetOrientation.

Print crop marks

Outputs crop marks on the corners of the print area. If a print area is defined on the sheet format, this is used.

 

Otherwise, the print area of the defined printer minus the specified margins is used.

 

Note: If a print area is defined on the sheet format, the output will not be cut at the defined print area.

Print page numbers

Outputs the page numbers of the adjacent sheets (left, right, above and below) in the margins outside the defined print area as well as the current page number.

Sheet order

When only one sheet is output and print areas are defined for the sheet format, the sheet order can be defined (Split automatically on printer pages must be checked).

 

The following symbols appear in the Sheet order selection list:

 

The arrow direction has the following meaning:

  1. The corner, from which both arrows are pointing, is the starting point of the first printout.

  2. The arrows specify the sheet order which is printed line by line or column by column.
    In doing so, it first prints in the direction of the darker colored arrow.
    Returning to the starting point, it then jumps one cell in the direction of the brighter colored arrow.
    From there it once again prints in the direction of the darker colored arrow, etc..

 

Note

If the sheet order has been defined for a sheet in the Database Editor (in Symbol Properties - Print Area), the sheet order can no longer be changed in the project.

Select pages

If only one sheet is to be output and print areas are defined on the sheet format, individual pages can be selected in the subsequent dialogSelect Print Areas:

 

 

When calling up the dialog, no pages are selected. Double-clicking on a page selects it and double-clicking again deselects it.

  • Select All: selects all print areas
  • Deselect All: deselects all print areas
  • Fit Width: adapts the print preview window to the maximum width of the print area
  • Fit Height: adapts the print preview window to the maximum height of the print area
  • Display Drawing: the drawing's contents are displayed or hidden

 

If the defined print area including the margins is too big for the sheet format of the currently defined printer, a corresponding message is displayed and the dialog will not open.

Print Preview

Displays each page as it will look when printed. To exit print preview and return to the drawing page, click Close.

Default orientation for printing is landscape.

 

Remarks on printing external or embedded documents

External and embedded documents cannot be printed directly using the File -> Print command inE3.series.

 

They will thus not be considered when the All option is checked. The following should be taken into consideration:

  • External documents must be opened to print them via File -> Print.

  • Embedded documents can be printed via the Explorer's context menu in the Sheet tree view.

 

Remarks on printing 3D panel sheets

  • The current view must already be displayed in 3D mode.

  • Printing can only be done with Current sheet or Selection selected.
    If the current sheet is printed, all selected devices are output as "unselected" (i.e. the colored highlighting is not displayed). If the current selection is printed, all unselected devices are suppressed. The selected devices are printed as "unselected" (i.e. the colored highlighting is not displayed). Therefore, only the area is printed, i.e. no sheet border is visible and the sheet is adjusted to the size of the area.