Printing a home

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|  |  | Printing a home

To print a home, choose File > Print....
This menu displays the print dialog box of your system that lets you choose the printer, the printed pages numbers, print quality...

By default, Sweet Home 3D prints the furniture list, the plan and the current 3D view of a home, using default paper size, margins and orientation.
If you want to modify these parameters, choose File > Page setup....

In the page setup pane, you may change paper size and orientation by clicking on the Page format button. You can choose also if the furniture list, the plan and the 3D view of a home should be printed or not. If you don't want to use the scale of the plan computed automatically to fit paper at best, you may choose an other scale in the Scale field.
You may also choose the header and/or the footer of your choice that will appear on each printed page. The Header and Footer text fields accepts free texts and also some variables that will be replaced by their value at printing time. Here are the 8 following variables available at this time:

- $pageNumber for the page number,
- $pageCount for the total page count,
- $planScale for the plan scale (either the one automatically computed, or the one you entered in Scale field),
- $date for the date when you will launch print,
- $time for the time when you will launch print,
- $name for the name of your home,
- $file for the file path of your home file,
- $level for the name of the printed level.

To avoid you typing the exact name of a variable, use the Variables buttons displayed under the Header and Footer text fields. As the $ sign is reserved for variables, you should use the $$ code to print a $ sign.

Before printing your home, you may preview your page setup at screen, by choosing File > Print preview... out of the menu.

In the print preview pane, you can see how a home will be printed page by page. To change the previewed page, click on the arrows at the top of the pane or press the arrow keys.

• | Print feature may not work under Linux. If this is the case, please choose File > Print to PDF... and print the created PDF file with your system tools.
• | 3D view print may not be available due to a limited configuration of your system. In that case, the Print 3D view check box will be unchecked and disabled.
• | If the printed home contains more than one level, the printed furniture list will contain only the furniture visible at the currently selected level, except if you request to print only the furniture list, in which case all the furniture list will be printed. The printed plan and 3D view will be the ones currently displayed at screen. To print the plan or the 3D view of several levels, select then print each level one by one.
• | The 3D view of a home is always printed at a 150 dpi resolution and in such a way that it fills one page, excepted paper margins.
• | Use the following instructions if you don't know how to convert a scale of the form 1/4"=1' to the value expected in the Scale field of the page setup pane: a 1/x scale tells how much 1 unit on the paper is in the real world, as well as a 1/4"=1' scale tells a fourth of an inch on the paper is 1 foot in the real world. Thus, a 1/100 scale means 1 cm on paper = 100 cm = 1 m in the real world, but also means 1 inch on paper = 100 inches = 8'4" in the real world. To convert a scale like 1/4"=1' where the value at left of the equal sign isn't 1 and/or doesn't use the same unit as the value at right of the equal sign, convert the two values in the smallest unit, then divide the value at right by the value at left. For a 1/4" = 1' scale, converting to inches will give 1/4"=12", then dividing 12 by 1/4 will give 48, for an equivalent scale of 1/48.
• | You can also show the scale of the plan on paper by drawing in the plan a dimension measuring a standard length (1 meter for example).
• | The page setup you chose is saved with the file of a home.
• | The print preview pane may be enlarged.