From the course: Rapid Prototyping for Product Design
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Printing full-sized 2D patterns
From the course: Rapid Prototyping for Product Design
Printing full-sized 2D patterns
In order to make 2D patterns, we need to first make sure we're saving our drawings to a full, one to one size. To get started, you can see I've got a part opened up here, and if I click back to the part here which is 6.1, you can see it's a plate here with some slots and some holes in the corners. And it's a little bit bigger than a regular sheet of paper so, I want to make sure I am printing this thing out full size, so I can actually work with it. Now here's the first sheet of the drawing, and it's just got a couple dimensions on there right now, it's showing it's 14 inches by 18 inches. Now clearly that's not going to fit on a regular 8.5 by 11 sheet of paper, so you've gotta go through a few steps, to get it to print out full size. The first thing I want to do is open up a new drawing sheet. Add a sheet there and I want to get rid of this border, in the title block. So I'm going to go ahead and click on Properties, and go ahead and just turn this off so Display Sheet Format, turn…
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