Print Preview?

[Joe_Carrick]

What is actually done by Print Preview 

• In a Layout ?
• In a Plan ?

Does it really do anything other than turning the display on and off in the Print Dialog?

Edited Saturday at 02:23 AM by Joe_Carrick

[Michael_Gia]

Does absolutely nothing. 
 

I wish it would work like a pdf in Acrobat where ctrl 0, displays actual size where you can use a ruler on your monitor and it’s to scale. 
 

[DBCooper]

As far as I can tell, it mostly just turns on line weights and the drawing sheet.  If these are already on, then it won't look very different.  It can also turn off the display of things that are not going to print, such as temporary cad points and active cameras.  It may also turn color on/off depending on your printer settings. 

 

[Joe_Carrick]

15 minutes ago, DBCooper said:

As far as I can tell, it mostly just turns on line weights and the drawing sheet.  If these are already on, then it won't look very different.  It can also turn off the display of things that are not going to print, such as temporary cad points and active cameras.  It may also turn color on/off depending on your printer settings. 

 

IOW, pretty useless.

[Joe_Carrick]

So the only way to really do a "Real Print Peview" is by starting the  "Print Tool" (hotkey Ctrl+Q,P) and clicking on the "Update" button.

 

I really wish CA would give us this functionality in a single tool.  It's the only way Iknow to insure all macros get executed from all referenced plans and schedules.

[DBCooper]

So is the only difference you can see between the print preview in a plan view and the preview in the print dialog is whether or not your macros work?

 

[Joe_Carrick]

1 hour ago, DBCooper said:

So is the only difference you can see between the print preview in a plan view and the preview in the print dialog is whether or not your macros work?

 

No, the print preview seems to only effect 3D graphics and maybe line weights.  It seems to skip anything that relates to text related objects such as labels and schedules.  The preview in the print dialog takes considerably longer, obviously doing a complete update of each page.

 

In reality, most of my macros execute when I open a Layout.  The exceptions are:

• any macros in a secondary plan file 
  • I'm able to get those to execute if I send the view to my default layout template - which I essentially reduce to a size that can be "behind a filled rectangle" so it won't print but is still not hidden to the software.
  • Or displaying the page that has that plan.
• schedules that reference 2 different objects and provide calculated fields
  • The only way to get these to execute is to open the actual view and either open the schedule object or the schedule and then close it.

Basically the print dialog "Update" provides that for all pages.

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by Joe_Carrick