Print full size drawings
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:48 am
I do a lot of radio control airplanes and draw my own designs. Rigt now I'm using TurboCad on Windows, but I'm trying to make the switch to QCad because I'm dumping windows in favor of a Mac laptop and a Linux machine. I'm a Unix admin by trade. I do have a CNC machine that is controlled by Mach3 on Windows, but I'm trying to switch that to EMC on Linux, too.
I print full sized plans for these planes on a 15" wide dot matrix printer with cont. feed paper. In TurboCad I can print a full size drawing on this printer. This works very well. I'm having problems doing this with QCad. I get what would be the first sheet, then the printing stops. It will not continue printing the entire drawing.
I attached screenshots of both QCad and TC in this process.
Am I doing something wrong?
QCad
http://kalteisen.com/qcad_printing_pics/qcad_1.jpg
http://kalteisen.com/qcad_printing_pics/qcad_2.jpg
http://kalteisen.com/qcad_printing_pics/qcad_3.jpg
http://kalteisen.com/qcad_printing_pics/qcad_4.jpg
TurboCad
http://kalteisen.com/qcad_printing_pics/tc_1.jpg
http://kalteisen.com/qcad_printing_pics/tc_2.jpg
http://kalteisen.com/qcad_printing_pics/tc_3.jpg
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I print full sized plans for these planes on a 15" wide dot matrix printer with cont. feed paper. In TurboCad I can print a full size drawing on this printer. This works very well. I'm having problems doing this with QCad. I get what would be the first sheet, then the printing stops. It will not continue printing the entire drawing.
I attached screenshots of both QCad and TC in this process.
Am I doing something wrong?
QCad
http://kalteisen.com/qcad_printing_pics/qcad_1.jpg
http://kalteisen.com/qcad_printing_pics/qcad_2.jpg
http://kalteisen.com/qcad_printing_pics/qcad_3.jpg
http://kalteisen.com/qcad_printing_pics/qcad_4.jpg
TurboCad
http://kalteisen.com/qcad_printing_pics/tc_1.jpg
http://kalteisen.com/qcad_printing_pics/tc_2.jpg
http://kalteisen.com/qcad_printing_pics/tc_3.jpg
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