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portrait versus landscape - autonomous self awareness

My Solidworks 2005 has achieved sentiance in the way that it randomly assigns pages to be portrait or landscape even in the same drawing. It literally varies from page to page even in immeidiately successive printouts. It is very frustrating.

eg: A 10 page drawing, I print it or save it as pdf, afterwards I view the output, I see that page 5 is a landscape title block printed in portrait mode, also page 7. So I go page to the drawing goto page 5 and 7 and see in page setup that it is actually set to portrait mode. I switch them to landscape, print again and this time page 3 and 4 are in portrait mode.

Am I alone in this?

Thanks,

Zander

Reply to
Zander
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No, it has been around for a while. It should be fixed in SW05 but I haven't run any tests to verify..Meanwhile, before printing I use previewing to check out what I'm going to get.

Reply to
Markku Lehtola

"Zander" a écrit dans le message de news:416d2d80$0$27225$ snipped-for-privacy@newscene.com...

Had it with 2001+ as soon as 2004 was installed, have it with 2004.

Reply to
Jean Marc BRUN

Zander,

Sounds like you need to have either all odd, or all even numbered pages..

Sorry,,,,couldn't resist ;>)

Mark

Reply to
MM

I've found that going to page setup and changing to system settings instead document settings seems to fix it.

Reply to
Zander

In having portrait/landscape re-assigned after using PDF? No.

In understanding the meaning of the word "sentiance" ? Probably. ;P

Reply to
rocheey

Plotting has long been a sore spot for CAD, and I think one which will never-ever be really cured.

100 years from now, a designer will go to print out a holographic film of his work, and it will print the object inside out. He will notice this half-way through the print, decide to cancel the print... but the attempt to cancel the print is not working right.

To be confident that all the equipment involved is really cleared of this problem with the inside-out issue and the canceled print, he will need to reboot everything and reset the network connection.

But, since the wireless network is a highly reliable system that doesn't need to be reset (and doesn't provide a way to reset it), he must load the printer into his car and drive for 1 mile to get out out range of his local network.

When he returns, he sees that the intelligent network has realized that the printer is no longer in use at this office, and it automatically uninstalled the drivers. But, after it detects his return, in automatically re-installed the drivers it downloads from the manufacturer. Unfortunately, this new version of the driver later proves to be incompatable with his current version of the CAD program... etc., etc.

Joe Dunfee

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Smiley

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