From there you can click print, and you should be good to go! When you click OK, you’ll see a preview of your printout. For example, for a 1/4 scale, you’d have 1in in the printout = 4in in SketchUp.)

(If you want to scale it to something different, feel free to do that.

Set the scale to In the Printout = 1in and In SketchUp = 1in.

We’re printing at full scale, so we don’t want that.) (Fit to page will scale whatever is in the workspace up or down in order to fit onto a single sheet of paper. This will allow us to preview the print out before sending it to the printer.

Verify the printer, paper size, and paper orientation by going to File > Print Setup.

I started a whole forum thread on the topic, you can check it out here.) (There is a feature called “Use Model Extents” which, in theory, should prevent all that empty space from being printed, but during my extensive testing and research while preparing this video and article, I found that it doesn’t always behave predictably, and when it does work, it doesn’t crop as close to the model as you can when you do it manually. Use zoom (scroll wheel), zoom extents (SHIFT + Z), and pan (SHIFT + Middle Mouse button) to help fill the area with the model.

Resize the SketchUp program window to better fit the object you are printing.

There’s an excellent extension you can install for free that will allow you to pick an object in your model to resize the window to. So if you’re using SketchUp maximized in full screen, you have to undock it and drag the borders of the window to fit it. So what you need to do is resize that actual SketchUp program window, in order to change the aspect ratio of the workspace to fit the object as tight as possible. If you tried to print that, it would look like this: So if you have a bunch of empty space around the model, SketchUp will allocate page space for that area, and that’s where you get all those blank pages printing out. When you print from SketchUp, it actually prints the entire work area, not just the model.

Ok, so this is where most people trip up. (I don’t know why you can’t just align your view to any face in the model, you HAVE TO use a standard view for some reason.)

Go to the Camera menu > Standard views > and pick front, back, left, or right, etc.

Go to the Camera menu > Parallel Projection.

Isolate the objects you want to print by hiding the other objects.

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