anyone know why sw09 relies on the printer driver to rotate plots when printing? is there a work around?
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newby
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newby
teaching myself SW… playing with the tutorials in 2007 sp.0 and did the ’3d sketching with planes’ tutorial and when i lofted the profiles, SW filled the top circle AND the bottom creating a solid shape. is this a SW issue or did i miss something?
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dave spencer
If you just have a single circle in each drawing, it will loft a solid shape. You either need to include an inner wall in your sketches or click “thin feature” when lofting.
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newby
thanks man. I just looked at it again and there is a huge difference between the “loft” tool in the surfaces tool bar and the “lofted base/boss” tool in the standard tool bar. that was where i deviated from the tutorial.
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CBL 10:00 pm on December 27, 2009 Permalink
I can’t speak for SW, but I imagine it’s because they don’t want to reinvent the wheel. There are so many printers on the market, creating a driver for each would be a huge project. Printer manufacturers create the drivers, so why not use them?
What problems are you having that requires a workaround?
newby 5:23 am on December 28, 2009 Permalink
came across an old hp600 for free and decided to bring it home for weekend/personal use. HP driver is ‘lacking’ and the plotter wont rotate/nest two C prints on a 36″ roll as it should be able to do. i agree the driver is usually responsible for rotate/zoom etc, but there are whole host of programs that can do this most basic of functions independent of the driver.
CBL 2:18 pm on December 28, 2009 Permalink
Save as or Print to PDF, and then use Adobe to rotate and combine.