Autocad print scale wrong

Support 0 contributions. The plot may be smaller or larger than shown in the drawing. The plot preview may show correctly. Causes: Plot margins are set to a smaller area than the plot area.

Out of date or corrupted plot driver. Older or malfunctioning hardware. Solution: Do one or more of the following: Test a different physical printer and plot driver to determine if a particular one does not print correctly.

Support 0 contributions. Issue: When plotting from AutoCAD, one or more of the following occurs: The message "The selected layout has an invalid media configuration" appears on screen on the command line , usually after printing but also when editing the page size at any point within AutoCAD.

Output is cropped to a smaller page size, usually Letter 8. Output is scaled to a smaller page size and will not retain the page setting selected in page setup. Output is shifted to the lower left instead of being properly centered on the page.

Print jobs seem to spool successfully from AutoCAD but hang in the print queue and never complete. The printer may report a media size error. A different page size is selected, although with the same dimensions e.

Plots fine, but why the plot scale? Preview file. Message 4 of Could be something to do with drawing units depending on the drawing i. Message 5 of Message 6 of Not sure if this helps, but the drawing title block is an A1 block xmm, inserted with a scale factor of 1 into paper space. Message 7 of Sorry, no Message 8 of Besides picking the wrong window, that would seem to make the most sense Message 9 of We now need to take you out of the loop: post it here.

Message 10 of What scale does it say if you select fit to paper? Message 11 of Sorry for the delay, been rather overloaded