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Print Model

Larger page sizes and Landscape orientation are not specified as Foundation Walls
are usually best for Print Model. will print. See “Foundation Walls” on
page 350.
3 Wall Settings -
4 Uncheck Roofs to prevent roof planes
• Uncheck Walls to prevent walls from from printing.
printing. When Walls is unchecked, most Uncheck Plan View to prevent the Plan
of the other Wall Settings are disabled. 5 View Wall Layout from printing.
• Uncheck Exterior Only to print interior Options -
wall surfaces in addition to exterior sur- 6
faces. Printing interior wall surfaces
requires a lot more paper and is typically • Specify the Floor Thickness, which is
only desirable when creating a model of the thickness of the material you plan to
the current floor without a roof. use for the model’s floor platform.
• Check Fold Interior Down to print the • Specify the Scale to be used when print-
interior surface of each wall directly ing the model.
above its corresponding exterior surface • Specify the number of Copies to be
and upside down. This allows both walls printed.
to be cut in one piece and folded over. • C h e c k Print in Color to print in color.
• Check Combine Floors to print together Advanced Options - Click the Open
the exterior surfaces of walls that are on 7 System Print Dialog button to close
top of each other. Interior surfaces of the Print Model dialog and print using your
those walls still print separately.
operating system’s Print dialog instead. Not
• Allow Offset modifies the outcome of available when No Printer is selected.
the Combine Floors option. Normally,
the main layers of stacked walls must be 8 Control the appearance of the print job
closely aligned and have the same thick- Preview on the right side of the dialog.
ness for walls to combine. Check this box • Specify the Page that displays in the Pre-
to allow an offset of up to six inches (15 view area.
cm) and allow different thicknesses. • Click the buttons to Zoom In, Zoom
• Check Railings to print railings along Out, or Fit the selected Page to the
with walls. extents of the Preview area.
• Check Outdoor Walls to print Fencing, • C h e c k Update Automatically to have
Retaining Walls, walls that define Exte- the print job Preview display and update
rior type rooms, or that define no room. as changes are made to the settings in this
Printing Outdoor Walls can require a con- dialog. This is not unchecked by default
siderable amount of paper. because updating the Preview in the Print
• Check Foundation Walls to print walls Model dialog can be time-consuming.
specified as Foundation Walls. When this • Click the Update button to update the
is unchecked, walls on Floor Zero that print job Preview to reflect the current

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