Ed_Orum Posted September 27, 2023 Share Posted September 27, 2023 My printer will go to 36" wide. I need to print on ARCH E size paper, so when I went to print, I switched from landscape to portrait mode. However only the paper size changed orientation, the file stayed in landscape mode. How do I change the orientation of the layout file so everything is in portrait mode? Thanks in advance. Lane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneDavis Posted September 27, 2023 Share Posted September 27, 2023 You want to rotate your layout so it can print on roll paper 36" wide? Or do you want a drawing that READS in portrait mode? Please clarify. Because if it is the first, it is done at the printer, not in Chief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Orum Posted September 28, 2023 Author Share Posted September 28, 2023 I want to rotate both the layout and plan so it prints in portrait mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneDavis Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 Did you build your layout page? If not, you will need to do that. There are no already-built layout pages for portrait oriented sheets. You can scratch-build your layout page with borders, titles, revision lists, page number, date, all that stuff, or you can take one of the prebuilt templates and rotate it, borders and all, and then edit from there. Is the plan fully annotated for sending views to layout? Rotating a plan is easy. Edit>Edit Area>Edit Area (All Floors) will do what you want, but if you are fully annotated, there is gonna be a lot of editing to rotate all the text and other anno elements that need it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKEdmo Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 14 hours ago, Ed_Orum said: My printer will go to 36" wide. I need to print on ARCH E size paper, so when I went to print, I switched from landscape to portrait mode. If Chief makes it difficult, you might try printing as PDF then print the PDF to the plotter from (for example) Adobe. Your PDF software might make it easier to print the rotated sheets. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Orum Posted October 2, 2023 Author Share Posted October 2, 2023 On 9/27/2023 at 10:28 PM, JKEdmo said: If Chief makes it difficult, you might try printing as PDF then print the PDF to the plotter from (for example) Adobe. Your PDF software might make it easier to print the rotated sheets. Jim Yes, but the issue with that is line weights...they do not print true from a PDF. At least not for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Orum Posted October 2, 2023 Author Share Posted October 2, 2023 On 9/27/2023 at 10:21 PM, GeneDavis said: Did you build your layout page? If not, you will need to do that. There are no already-built layout pages for portrait oriented sheets. You can scratch-build your layout page with borders, titles, revision lists, page number, date, all that stuff, or you can take one of the prebuilt templates and rotate it, borders and all, and then edit from there. Is the plan fully annotated for sending views to layout? Rotating a plan is easy. Edit>Edit Area>Edit Area (All Floors) will do what you want, but if you are fully annotated, there is gonna be a lot of editing to rotate all the text and other anno elements that need it. So are you saying I need to rotate the layout and the plan files independently? I was hoping that once I sent the plan to the layout, then I could simply have the layout print in portrait mode, like I can do if I print it first as a PDF. Yes, the plan is fully annotated. Maybe just anothe reason not to upgrade to X15, I wish Chief would focus a little more on practical, everyday things like this as opposed to creating a picture perfect, sun shadow, etc. rendering. (sorry, I had to get that off my chest) Lane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgardner Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 Pretty sure you are overthinking this. Best practice is to print a pdf and print from your pdf viewer. So print normal from Chief then rotate your pdf pages and print. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneDavis Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 Ryan said it and I said it way upthread. It's not done in Chief. You rotate in your printing program. Here is an image of a page of a print set. The page orientation is landscape, but as can be seen, I rotated it in Adobe for printing in portrait mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Orum Posted October 3, 2023 Author Share Posted October 3, 2023 Yes, printing to a PDF first seems to be the only way to do it. I was trying to change it from landscape to portrait mode in Chief. Thanks everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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