Full sized pipe templates using a standard printer 2

[Leviticus49]

I would like to produce full sized pipe templates using a standard A4 printer. For example this would require at least 3 X A4 pages in landscape for a 8" pipe template. Is this possible? If so how do I set up? I am using Autocad 2000.

 

[borgunit]

You can do this (we do it with a VBA macro we wrote) but basically you print a window of a certain size to the printer. Small format printers have margin settings and cannot print edge to edge or at a scale per se for AutoCAD. You can create a rectangle of a certain size and then print a window at its corners when you need a "template" to print out. It is a little bit of trial and error but you can get it real close this way. Just insert the rectangle in your drawing, move it around as a "frame" and print window its corners. I hope this may help a little.

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[iken]

Why dont you insert veiwports in paper space the size printable on your printer (A4). Have these edge to edge, so your whole drawing is shown through say four vports. Print one viewport at a time - no trial and error