To make everything fit for the bottom of the side, I had to sacrifice the outer edges of the pattern and put it on a legal size sheet in Portrait orientation. I could also have selected legal size paper and wouldn’t need to get so close. To make this fit, I held a piece of paper up to my screen to resize the window proportions and I zoomed in to fill the screen. Because I don’t want to run out of blue ink in my printer, I’ll go to the Styles window in SketchUp and turn off the display of the sky, or select a different style that is just lines. The blue color is the “sky” background in SketchUp. Here is the preview that I’m looking for - almost. That’s 19 sheets more than I want, so I need to play around with the window size and my view to get it down to a single sheet. I took this screen shot before zooming way, way in and SketchUp is ready to print all of the model (along with a great deal of the background) on twenty sheets of paper. If you print on your own machine, PAY ATTENTION TO THE TILED SHEET PRINT RANGE in the lower left corner or the dialogue box. You can then take (or e-mail) the PDF to someone with a great big printer (I use my local Staples store). Set up the page size for a large sheet, 24 x 36 or 36 x 48 are standard sizes. If you want a real big print on a single sheet, you can find software online that will let you create PDF files as a virtual printer. I can also select my inkjet printer and put these on letter or legal size paper. I have my machine set to “print” an Adobe PDF file so I can show you the results. ![]() The numbers and units should match, as seen here where an inch in the printout equals an inch in SketchUp.Īt the top of the box you can select your printer. That lets you change the numbers below Scale. To print to full size (or any specific scale) uncheck the box that says “Fit to page”. ![]() When you click “OK” you will see what will go to your printer. If you’re in “Print Preview” it’s safe to play around with the different settings to see what happens. Checking or unchecking some of the boxes changes the options that are available. Here is what the dialogue box looks like.
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