T-FLEX Parametric CAD. Fundamentals. 2D Design

Fundamentals. Two-Dimensional Design
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Print Constructions. Setting this parameter makes construction entities printed as well.
Keep Line Width. Setting this parameter helps avoid variations in line thickness when printing a document
at a scale other than 100%.
Printing Several Documents
The “Document printing utility” application can be called by the following T-FLEX CAD command:
Keyboard Textual menu Icon
«File|Print Documents»
To work with the application, make sure that it is running. By default, it is always started. If,
however, the application is shut down for some reason (this can be instantly determined by the
absence of the command in the textual menu), it can be loaded by the command "AP: External
Applications". When the application is running, the list of T-FLEX CAD toolbars contains an
additional “Print Control” bar.
The pack of documents will be composed on the basis of the document opened in the active window of the
T-FLEX CAD upon invoking the print module. The pages of the base document correspond to the print
paper sheets. The images of the documents which need to be printed out are placed on these paper sheets.
When carrying out the pack layout for printing, new pages can be automatically added to the base document,
and also the settings of already existing pages can be modified. Thus, before calling the print module, it is
recommended to create a new blank drafting which will become the basis for compiling the pack of
documents.
In the print module, only the pages of the base document having the type “Normal” are displayed
and used.
The documents selected as components of the pack are put into the base document as internal pictures with
the preserved connection with the source files.
Formation of the pack of documents is carried out in a separate window “Print documents”. This window is
split vertically into two panes: the structure of the composed pack of documents is shown on the left, the
window with the preview of the composed document is shown on the right.
Formation of the pack for printing is usually performed in the following way: with the help of the commands
of the textual menu and toolbar the documents which have to be included into the pack are indicated. A user
can select the T-FLEX CAD documents and the documents of all graphics formats available for insertion in
the command “IP: Create picture”. For the T-FLEX CAD documents added to the pack and multi-page
pictures, it is possible to specify the pages which will be printed.
The images of all documents included into the pack for printing, by default are placed on the current page of
the base document. Afterwards, during the pack layout, the images are distributed in a rational way over
pages of the base document.