Print preview

Print Preview shows the section displayed in the current viewport as it will appear in the printout. Using print preview, you can define printer settings and margins, set the scale, add headers and footers as well as specify how you want to display the elements. In addition, you can change the paper size and orientation of the page.

This tool works with all the printers for which you have installed and configured a Windows printer driver.

To open and use print preview

Click Print Preview (How).
Activate Print Preview in one of the following ways
- Menu bar: File
- Toolbar: Default
All the menus and toolbars disappear. Now you can see the Print Preview palette.
Define the settings for print preview in the Settings, Margins and Display of elements areas.
Use the tools on the viewport toolbar to define the section you want to display.
- Zoom All or double-clicking the middle mouse button adjusts all the elements in the loaded drawing files to the maximum printable area of the paper.
- Zoom Section zooms in on a section. To do this, press and hold down the left mouse button and open a selection rectangle around the elements you want to zoom in on.
- Previous View and Next View take you from section to section.
- You can move the elements dynamically by pressing and holding down the middle mouse button.
- Scale lets you set the display scale. It is identical to the value in the palette.
A the bottom of the palette, click
- Load favorite to retrieve a file with the settings of the Margins and Display of elements areas.
- Save as a favorite to save the settings in the Margins and Display of elements areas to a file.
- Export as PDF to save the elements in print preview as a PDF file. Define parameters for PDF export and click Export.
  Click Close to return to print preview without creating a PDF file.
- Print to print the elements in print preview using the printer you specified.
- Close to exit print preview and to return to the workspace. You can also press ESC to quit print preview.