portrait versus landscape - autonomous self awareness

My Solidworks 2005 has achieved sentiance in the way that it randomly
assigns pages to be portrait or landscape even in the same drawing. It
literally varies from page to page even in immeidiately successive
printouts. It is very frustrating.

eg: A 10 page drawing, I print it or save it as pdf, afterwards I view
the output, I see that page 5 is a landscape title block printed in
portrait mode, also page 7. So I go page to the drawing goto page 5 and 7
and see in page setup that it is actually set to portrait mode. I switch
them to landscape, print again and this time page 3 and 4 are in portrait
mode.

Am I alone in this?

Thanks,

Zander

 

No, it has been around for a while. It should be fixed in SW05 but I
haven't run any tests to verify..Meanwhile, before printing I use
previewing to check out what I'm going to get.

 

Had it with 2001+ as soon as 2004 was installed, have it with 2004.

 

Zander,

Sounds like you need to have either all odd, or all even numbered pages..

Sorry,,,,couldn't resist ;>)


Mark

 

I've found that going to page setup and changing to system settings instead
document settings seems to fix it.

 

My Solidworks 2005 has achieved sentiance in the way that it randomly
In having portrait/landscape re-assigned after using PDF? No.

In understanding the meaning of the word "sentiance" ? Probably. ;P

 

Plotting has long been a sore spot for CAD, and I think one which will
never-ever be really cured.

100 years from now, a designer will go to print out a holographic
film of his work, and it will print the object inside out. He will
notice this half-way through the print, decide to cancel the print...
but the attempt to cancel the print is not working right.

To be confident that all the equipment involved is really cleared of
this problem with the inside-out issue and the canceled print, he will
need to reboot everything and reset the network connection.

But, since the wireless network is a highly reliable system that
doesn't need to be reset (and doesn't provide a way to reset it), he
must load the printer into his car and drive for 1 mile to get out out
range of his local network.

When he returns, he sees that the intelligent network has realized
that the printer is no longer in use at this office, and it
automatically uninstalled the drivers. But, after it detects his
return, in automatically re-installed the drivers it downloads from
the manufacturer. Unfortunately, this new version of the driver later
proves to be incompatable with his current version of the CAD
program... etc., etc.

Joe Dunfee