In addition to these great tips, before printing I use a graph paper image as a material I fill in the component that I'm printing. Just be careful to make the graph paper image size to be exact. I used a 2 inch by 2 inch virtual image of the graph paper sized to 2x2 inches when creating this custom material. This material repeats across your component automatically. Now after you print at scale you can take the individual sheets of paper together exactly by using the graph paper fill pattern to align each piece of paper to be straight and spaced correctly.
I actually mentioned that in the video, but ended up editing it out because I couldn't get it to print the texture. Only afterwards, I realized I needed to disable "Use high accuracy HLR" for it to work. Oh well! It's a great tip! thanks
Thank You, Matt, for demystifing this particular Sketchup operation. I sure have "wasted" a lot of paper !! Also, I'm sure DaveR appreciated the nod. He's one of mentors.
Thanks a lot! This was exactly my problem and you had the answer. I was beginning to panic after browsing a lot of help pages from sketch that really never got down to the solution. It was a pleasure hearing you explain it. 🧚♀
I honestly keep coming back to this video! Another thing I have noticed is if it won't print to pdf (blank pages). Is to print setup to your printer, print preview to your printer, then print, but at the last window change to print to pdf! Hope this helps anyone else.
Finally - your solution. It works a charm. Such step-by-step description gives meaning to under-the-hood misleading gobbledygook from other vids. SketchUp Pro'22; Win10; old HP Inkjet. Printer Setup/Advanced/"Borderless Printing" should be OFF. When ON, printout errors occur (on both HP's).
When in print preview, you can also pick what pages to print, as in page range. 1-5,7,8. If this is done with the default image for this video, it will prevent 2 more pages of being wasted.
@@Mastersketchup I agree, but you have to view what is being printed on what page...I was try to print 2 items that easily fit onto 1 page, but SketchUp wanted to print 5 pages. One item being on page 1 and the other being on page 4...by unchecking "use model extent" they both printed on page 1
Thanks for sharing, been having problems until you mentioned to uncheck "Use Model Extents"....now instead of 5 pages, I can print what I need on 1 page.
Why doesn't the Mac version of SketchUp show a Print Preview option? This is getting frustrating because I cannot rescale this to be the size I need it to be. SIGH....
Thanks! Sometimes I need to see if I measured mounting holes correctly and need to print a scale template. I can do it so much faster this way, and it's easier to work in sketchup versus something like gimp.
I hadda retrieve this info, coincidentally, just a few days after your email notification, so thanks, Matt, for making it easier than last time, when I pieced together info from googling. I've never gotten into Layout enough to not hate it - or maybe it's just not loveable. I don't usually have to 'present' my work; I usually use it as shop-drawings for my own DIY projects, and in this case, as a full-size template. Generally after long hours tweaking a model in SU, I've had far too much coffee to tolerate still MORE long hours futzing with Layout in order to simply print what I need in order to start building. But I still wonder if I'm missing out. LMK if you think it's worth learning...
Edit: later same day, with about 20 pages printed and carefully aligned, I found my template was about 4% smaller than the CAD model (yes, I'm using the 'HLR' setting from the print dialog). But I'm using Adobe Acrobat, not Bluebeam, so I'm pretty sure that's the difference - unless your project can tolerate that discrepancy. I repeated (this time making a 1" grid) to test, using the Adobe printer setup and selecting the 'higher quality' (or some such) setting vs the 'standard,' and...still no. I'm getting about 15/16" to the inch in 'standard,' and only slightly better in 'higher quality.' I'll poke around a little to see if there's a fix.
I'm stumped for now. Acrobat's 'measuring' tool - once I found it - shows the grid at 1.00" so that apparently isn't the problem. Unless there's a required scaling tweak to my (Brother) laser printer (that I don't really want to mess with, since trial-and-error tweaking of the scaling by percentage seems klugey) I don't know what else to try. Anyone?
So if I understand correctly, you're printing to Acrobat first, then to your printer? The problem with that is when you go to PDF, it goes right to the edge of the paper with no margin, and when you print from acrobat it's probably scaling the printed area down to fit within the margins of the printable area. You'd have to either disable scaling in acrobat when you print, but then you'd have parts of the print getting cropped. The better thing to do would be to select your printer directly from inside SketchUp because it will adjust for the margins correctly for you.
@@Mastersketchup Sounds reasonable as to the rescaling basis...but there's at least one shot in your video that I took to indicate you were doing the same thing, though in your case, printing from Bluebeam, not Acrobat. I realized later I should at least give printing directly from SU a try - but the thing about printing from the pdf is that you get a bird's-eye preview of ALL pages, not just a maximum of two (unless I'm missing a setting in the SU print preview, that's as many pages as you can preview at one time - is there a way to see more?) And if I just let it rip and print the whole thing, my print would contain a LOT of spurious pages that aren't needed for my perimeter-pattern template. Maybe it follows the same page sequence as for the pdf, so I can guess at a more surgical selection of pages to print...? (So much for saving trees and paper...)
It turned out that the page-printing sequence from SU is the same as from Acrobat, so it was a little easier to select only the needed (perimeter) pages to print. That said, though the scale seems accurate within the confines of one or two printed pages, it grows a bit (at least with my printer) such that over a span of 18", I'm over by ~1/16" - or in other terms, my longer dimension of 64-1/2" per SU came out to 64-3/4" in the real world. But it was the long smooth curves I needed to have templated, really - good thing I'm not making clockwork...
This was really helpful for printing to scale from SketchUp. I am also trying to fabricate templates for bandsaw and router templating. I have been trying (and failing) to do basically the same thing, but from Layout. I really like being able to control the thickness of the lines and all of the style controls, but I can't seem to figure out the multipage layout from LayOut.
Im a bit lost. Im a complete newbie at sketchup. When i do a print preview, i have no checkmarks in "fit to page" or "use model extents". I set the scale to 1:1. if i look at page size, it says width 16.7125" and height 9.3547". Thing is, my object is 2D, and measures 2" X 8". its a simple rectangle with 8, 1/4" holes in it. My printer is a small laser that only prints on 8 1/2" X 11" paper.
Great video I feel it's very unfortunate that sketch up prole which is about a $700 program still has so many bugs in it and limitations I think it is grossly overpriced
Trying to print to scale following all steps, but in 'print size' is blank. Nothing in the dropdowns and when I type my scale in manually it doesn’t work. Any idea why this is?
Exactly what I was looking for. Next step would be how to export a sketch or profile from fusion 360 and import here for priting! F3d printing is awful. Maybe use a .dxf?
Hi, when I try to print and go to the print preview there are no scale-units to choose from, no age size and I can't choose a scale... do you have any ideia what's happening? Thanks
I think there is a problem with printing to scale on Sketchup 2021. It doesn't show the scale units for Sketchup and Printing, and even after I shrink the Sketchup for the view that I want and try to put the right scale it still broke it into too many pages, weird.
That was just the pages panel in Bluebeam. I just resized the panel until the pages arranged correctly. You could probably do the same thing in any pdf viewer
In addition to these great tips, before printing I use a graph paper image as a material I fill in the component that I'm printing. Just be careful to make the graph paper image size to be exact. I used a 2 inch by 2 inch virtual image of the graph paper sized to 2x2 inches when creating this custom material. This material repeats across your component automatically.
Now after you print at scale you can take the individual sheets of paper together exactly by using the graph paper fill pattern to align each piece of paper to be straight and spaced correctly.
I actually mentioned that in the video, but ended up editing it out because I couldn't get it to print the texture. Only afterwards, I realized I needed to disable "Use high accuracy HLR" for it to work. Oh well! It's a great tip! thanks
Thank You, Matt, for demystifing this particular Sketchup operation. I sure have "wasted" a lot of paper !! Also, I'm sure DaveR appreciated the nod. He's one of mentors.
Dave is the best!
@@Mastersketchup Absolutely!
Thanks a lot! This was exactly my problem and you had the answer. I was beginning to panic after browsing a lot of help pages from sketch that really never got down to the solution. It was a pleasure hearing you explain it. 🧚♀
Very clear tutorial. I think a lot of users will find this really useful. 👍
I honestly keep coming back to this video! Another thing I have noticed is if it won't print to pdf (blank pages). Is to print setup to your printer, print preview to your printer, then print, but at the last window change to print to pdf! Hope this helps anyone else.
Matt, thank-you; I've been using the zoom feature on the printer to get the size I want. This will save me a ton of time, paper & ink.
Finally - your solution. It works a charm. Such step-by-step description gives meaning to under-the-hood misleading gobbledygook from other vids.
SketchUp Pro'22; Win10; old HP Inkjet. Printer Setup/Advanced/"Borderless Printing" should be OFF. When ON, printout errors occur (on both HP's).
Sweet!!! Thanks for putting in the time and posting this. It totally works.
When in print preview, you can also pick what pages to print, as in page range. 1-5,7,8. If this is done with the default image for this video, it will prevent 2 more pages of being wasted.
Great tip
@@Mastersketchup I agree, but you have to view what is being printed on what page...I was try to print 2 items that easily fit onto 1 page, but SketchUp wanted to print 5 pages. One item being on page 1 and the other being on page 4...by unchecking "use model extent" they both printed on page 1
Thanks for sharing, been having problems until you mentioned to uncheck "Use Model Extents"....now instead of 5 pages, I can print what I need on 1 page.
This works ,thankyou, at last I can print to full size and it was no problem
Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks, worked perfect!
Why doesn't the Mac version of SketchUp show a Print Preview option? This is getting frustrating because I cannot rescale this to be the size I need it to be. SIGH....
Any results you can share?
Incredibly helpful! Thank you!
Thanks for the tutorial. Made my life so much easier while working on my project!
Thanks for sharing Matt. I subscribed to your channel.
Thank you. Very useful information, well explained. Exactly what I needed for a 1:1 template.
awesome video mate
Thanks for the straight forward video! Very helpful :)
Thanks! Sometimes I need to see if I measured mounting holes correctly and need to print a scale template. I can do it so much faster this way, and it's easier to work in sketchup versus something like gimp.
I hadda retrieve this info, coincidentally, just a few days after your email notification, so thanks, Matt, for making it easier than last time, when I pieced together info from googling.
I've never gotten into Layout enough to not hate it - or maybe it's just not loveable. I don't usually have to 'present' my work; I usually use it as shop-drawings for my own DIY projects, and in this case, as a full-size template. Generally after long hours tweaking a model in SU, I've had far too much coffee to tolerate still MORE long hours futzing with Layout in order to simply print what I need in order to start building. But I still wonder if I'm missing out. LMK if you think it's worth learning...
Edit: later same day, with about 20 pages printed and carefully aligned, I found my template was about 4% smaller than the CAD model (yes, I'm using the 'HLR' setting from the print dialog). But I'm using Adobe Acrobat, not Bluebeam, so I'm pretty sure that's the difference - unless your project can tolerate that discrepancy. I repeated (this time making a 1" grid) to test, using the Adobe printer setup and selecting the 'higher quality' (or some such) setting vs the 'standard,' and...still no. I'm getting about 15/16" to the inch in 'standard,' and only slightly better in 'higher quality.' I'll poke around a little to see if there's a fix.
I'm stumped for now. Acrobat's 'measuring' tool - once I found it - shows the grid at 1.00" so that apparently isn't the problem. Unless there's a required scaling tweak to my (Brother) laser printer (that I don't really want to mess with, since trial-and-error tweaking of the scaling by percentage seems klugey) I don't know what else to try. Anyone?
So if I understand correctly, you're printing to Acrobat first, then to your printer? The problem with that is when you go to PDF, it goes right to the edge of the paper with no margin, and when you print from acrobat it's probably scaling the printed area down to fit within the margins of the printable area. You'd have to either disable scaling in acrobat when you print, but then you'd have parts of the print getting cropped. The better thing to do would be to select your printer directly from inside SketchUp because it will adjust for the margins correctly for you.
@@Mastersketchup Sounds reasonable as to the rescaling basis...but there's at least one shot in your video that I took to indicate you were doing the same thing, though in your case, printing from Bluebeam, not Acrobat. I realized later I should at least give printing directly from SU a try - but the thing about printing from the pdf is that you get a bird's-eye preview of ALL pages, not just a maximum of two (unless I'm missing a setting in the SU print preview, that's as many pages as you can preview at one time - is there a way to see more?) And if I just let it rip and print the whole thing, my print would contain a LOT of spurious pages that aren't needed for my perimeter-pattern template. Maybe it follows the same page sequence as for the pdf, so I can guess at a more surgical selection of pages to print...? (So much for saving trees and paper...)
It turned out that the page-printing sequence from SU is the same as from Acrobat, so it was a little easier to select only the needed (perimeter) pages to print. That said, though the scale seems accurate within the confines of one or two printed pages, it grows a bit (at least with my printer) such that over a span of 18", I'm over by ~1/16" - or in other terms, my longer dimension of 64-1/2" per SU came out to 64-3/4" in the real world. But it was the long smooth curves I needed to have templated, really - good thing I'm not making clockwork...
Thank you !! excellent
Это очень полезное и информативное видео. Спасибо за титры. Мне это очень повезло в моём хобби.
Большое спасибо за это видео.
This was really helpful for printing to scale from SketchUp. I am also trying to fabricate templates for bandsaw and router templating. I have been trying (and failing) to do basically the same thing, but from Layout. I really like being able to control the thickness of the lines and all of the style controls, but I can't seem to figure out the multipage layout from LayOut.
Superb ~ you have saved me today, thanks very much indeed🌿
Im a bit lost. Im a complete newbie at sketchup. When i do a print preview, i have no checkmarks in "fit to page" or "use model extents". I set the scale to 1:1. if i look at page size, it says width 16.7125" and height 9.3547". Thing is, my object is 2D, and measures 2" X 8". its a simple rectangle with 8, 1/4" holes in it. My printer is a small laser that only prints on 8 1/2" X 11" paper.
Thanks - excellent tutorial!
Great video I feel it's very unfortunate that sketch up prole which is about a $700 program still has so many bugs in it and limitations I think it is grossly overpriced
Trying to print to scale following all steps, but in 'print size' is blank. Nothing in the dropdowns and when I type my scale in manually it doesn’t work.
Any idea why this is?
I had the same problem. I then did all the same steps but opened it on the sketchup viewer 2021 and it worked perfectly
Exactly what I was looking for. Next step would be how to export a sketch or profile from fusion 360 and import here for priting! F3d printing is awful. Maybe use a .dxf?
Really, really useful. Thank you.
Thanks. Sweet.
does anybody know if the "use model extents" bug is still present in the 2022 version of sketchup?
Great videos btw, helped me alot
Thanks man!
This feature was removed I believe... Now it goes to layout instead
Well done. I needed that!
thanks
This worked perfectlz, thank you
How do you print smaller sized 1:1 so it comes out on 1 sheet instead of parts of it over 4 sheets?
It worked for me thanks a bunch
Muito bom o vídeo,elucidou muitas das minhas dúvidas. Obrigado. 👍
bonjour comment faire pour voir toutes les feuille qui seront imprimer merci
Hi, when I try to print and go to the print preview there are no scale-units to choose from, no age size and I can't choose a scale... do you have any ideia what's happening? Thanks
Hmmm. Yeah, I'm noticing the same thing. Seems like a bug. I'll go ahead and report it to the SketchUp team!
@@Mastersketchup nice, I'm only using the trial version, so I thought it could be due to that... If you share their answer, it would be great :)
4:51 to skip the introduction
Can you still do this if you only have the $120 shop version?
Greetings! Tell me, please, what kind of program do you use in the print preview, where is the pagination?
Thanks for the great video, I ask you: I have inserted a .png image but sketchup does not print it.
Thank you
Marco
In my printer dropdow menu..there is no print as pdf..do i must install software for it..what software..thanks mate
I think there is a problem with printing to scale on Sketchup 2021.
It doesn't show the scale units for Sketchup and Printing, and even after I shrink the Sketchup for the view that I want and try to put the right scale it still broke it into too many pages, weird.
That is strange. Hmmm
My preview is just blank
How if the print size and the units were blank in the print size field?
Is there a way to print it not directly from SketchUp? our printer messed up
I wish I had seen this video before I paid Mathias $22 for his Big Print program!
Not familiar with that program.
It’s on his RUclips channel. Search for Mathias Wandel
What are the steps for MAC OS to print full scale?
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Hey, whats the name of the software you are using to show all pages together, side by side?
That was just the pages panel in Bluebeam. I just resized the panel until the pages arranged correctly. You could probably do the same thing in any pdf viewer
doesn't work for me :(
How to print 1:1 but with Web browser Sketchup? Thank you for the video.
Hmmm, I'm not sure. I'd have to check that out. I haven't tried that yet.
cyber truck lol
First👌
too long intro...