[solved] techdraw page size
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- teletypeguy
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[solved] techdraw page size
Hi all:
I am new here and have various questions, but I will start with a simple one: How do I change TechDraw to use a US-Letter (or A-size) page instead of A4?
I tried searching on this forum and it replied: "The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: techdraw page size." Huh.
I am excited to get started with freecad -- I have a little bit of solidworks experience, and the Part Design wb has a familiar feel. I am an electrical engr, not mechanical, and have seen freecad mentioned a fair bit on the kicad forum where I hang out a bit.
Thanks in advance, Gil
I am new here and have various questions, but I will start with a simple one: How do I change TechDraw to use a US-Letter (or A-size) page instead of A4?
I tried searching on this forum and it replied: "The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: techdraw page size." Huh.
I am excited to get started with freecad -- I have a little bit of solidworks experience, and the Part Design wb has a familiar feel. I am an electrical engr, not mechanical, and have seen freecad mentioned a fair bit on the kicad forum where I hang out a bit.
Thanks in advance, Gil
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Re: techdraw page size
teletypeguy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:01 pm ...
I tried searching on this forum and it replied: "The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: techdraw page size." Huh.
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I would search in google. Here's an example
site:https://forum.freecad.org techdraw page format
Re: techdraw page size
Hi Gilteletypeguy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:01 pm Hi all:
I am new here and have various questions, but I will start with a simple one: How do I change TechDraw to use a US-Letter (or A-size) page instead of A4?
see TechDraw Preferences General -> Default Template
cheers
Re: techdraw page size
Short answer: Use a US-Letter (or A-size) template.teletypeguy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:01 pm How do I change TechDraw to use a US-Letter (or A-size) page instead of A4?
The template defines the size of the drawing page. To change the size of a page/sheet you have to exchange the template of the page.
Re: techdraw page size
this is a limitation of the database's internal search on texts. If you use the FreeCAD forum style, you get a separate search field invoking a search engine (almost) limited to the forum.teletypeguy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:01 pm "The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: techdraw page size."
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- teletypeguy
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Re: techdraw page size
Thanks @jeno and @FBLX5 for pointing me to templates. In my install dir ...\Mod\TechDraw does not have any templates. This is v0.20.2 on win11.
Anyway, I poked around and found a letter template on the freecad github repo, downloaded (hopefully correctly) a USLetter_Landscape.svg file, saved it in a local templates dir, and changed the template in the tree, but it now looks blank: I also tried setting Preferences/TechDraw to point to the local template: When I add a new page it still looks blank, so perhaps I did not grab a valid template file after all. I will try it on linux tomorrow and see what the distro gives me in the way of templates to try. I have seen info on creating one in inkscape, I just thought there would be a selection available out of the box.
thx
Anyway, I poked around and found a letter template on the freecad github repo, downloaded (hopefully correctly) a USLetter_Landscape.svg file, saved it in a local templates dir, and changed the template in the tree, but it now looks blank: I also tried setting Preferences/TechDraw to point to the local template: When I add a new page it still looks blank, so perhaps I did not grab a valid template file after all. I will try it on linux tomorrow and see what the distro gives me in the way of templates to try. I have seen info on creating one in inkscape, I just thought there would be a selection available out of the box.
thx
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Re: techdraw page size
click the orange button and you will find more than 50 formats including US letter
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Re: techdraw page size
Ahh, did not know about the orange button. But I had changed my templates dir in the prefs, so it was pointing there and I just had the one template I grabbed last night. The .../Mod/TechDraw/ location did not have a Templates subdir.papyblaise wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 12:54 pm click the orange button and you will find more than 50 formats including US letter
@wandererfan, thanks for the files -- loaded them into my local templates dir, and then used the big orange button to select
I'll try to make a custom template or two in inkscape later (that title block is crazy-large) but I am off and running now.
Thanks all.
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Re: techdraw page size
I am unsure how to edit post title to mark this [solved]