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Folding & Handling Large-Format Plans: Site Meeting Guide

Folding & Handling Large-Format Plans: Site Meeting Guide

What’s the point of a clear A0 plan if it reaches the site creased, smudged or awkward to unfold? Large drawings can be easy to damage in transit, and carrying a loose sheet on the London Underground is no one’s idea of a smooth start to a meeting. Good folding/handling large-format pla…
Folding & Handling Large-Format Plans: Site Meeting Guide
How to Print a PDF to Scale: Technical Drawing Settings

How to Print a PDF to Scale: Technical Drawing Settings

A single hidden default in your print dialogue box is shrinking your technical drawings by up to 7%, turning millimetre-perfect CAD vectors into useless scrap paper. It is an infuriating problem. Nothing wastes time and budget quite like having a local council planning application rejected at the v…
How to Print a PDF to Scale: Technical Drawing Settings
Printing Technical Drawings to Scale: Accurate CAD Guide

Printing Technical Drawings to Scale: Accurate CAD Guide

Default PDF print settings quietly shrink technical drawings by 2% to 6%, invalidating hours of precise drafting before a set of plans even reaches the building site. When you have properly configured your paper space viewports and checked your model units, printing technical drawings to scale shou…
Printing Technical Drawings to Scale: Accurate CAD Guide