Patchwork 3D Enterprise 2022 X5

Printing

Printing Patchwork 3D's printing functionality is used to print the image displayed in a Matter viewport on paper or to a digital file. It is available only if a default printer is defined on the computer.

General Print Window

To print the image displayed in the active viewport, open the print menu image915.png accessible from File > Print or with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + P.

The general print window is for selecting the printer to use and adding new printers, as well as defining the Settings for the printer and the pages to print.

The Print in a file function is for saving the image in PDF format. When printing as a PDF a new window will automatically open.

Printing to a File

The Configure Printers button recalls the general print window.

When Print file information is enabled, the file information in the box is added under images in the *.pdf file generated.

The image position on the page is selected by using options Center, Top Left and Custom, for which the margins’ width is entered in the fields.

Print in a file window.

Print in a file window.

The Dimensions box contains the image dimension options:

  • Fit Page,

  • Specification of image Width and Height in the fields and unit selection. The images printed from the Matter viewport are considered vector images and will be rendered with the ideal resolution for the required printing dimensions. The renders with raytracing are fixed and will be resized for printing.