Printing or plotting Bricscad lite on macbook m1

Laroque
Laroque
in Printing and Plotting

Hi all

I am new user having used Auticad LT for many years. When trying to print to the printer, it does not offer any printer options except print to a PDF. I then need to save it, find in and then print it.

With Autocad it was possible to simply select by window what you want and then print directly to the printer, quick and easy if you want to look at a detail on paper.

Am I missing something? Any suggestions warmly welcomed. All the best.

Comments

  • zoomer
    zoomer

    Ooops, I see the same in V25 BIM …..

    For CMD+P, Print and Publish, there is only print to PDF available.
    I could show a print Preview, that would open Apple Preview to select to print to my printer …..

    Not sure if this is again a Mac (and Linux ?) thing.
    And I do not find a Setting related to define a system printer.

  • Laroque
    Laroque

    Thanks Zoomer. I wonder whether the development team know?

  • zoomer
    zoomer

    Looks like yes ….

    https://help.bricsys.com/en-us/document/bricscad/printing-and-plotting/general-procedure-for-printing?version=V25&id=165079156041

    Remember:

    • On macOS and Linux it is not possible to print to system printers. It is only possible to print to the Print As PDF.pc3printer. So, a PDF document will be generated, which needs to be sent to the printer for physical printing.

    and

    • On macOS and Linux there is a relevant PAGESETUP command.

    (Which does basically nothing !?)