Directly placing project drawings into a print drawing

The procedure that follows describes how you can insert drawings from the project directly into a print drawing. In creating a print drawing, you can combine this technique with the one for inserting drawings into pre-sized container frames..

To insert a drawing

1. To begin, do any of the following:

• On the Print toolbar, click New Print Drawing .
• On the Tools menu, point to Print, and then click New Print Drawing.
• Press CTRL+I+N.

The Print Frame Placement dialog box appears.

2. In the Design Frame File list, select No frame, and then click Finish to close the dialog box. This way you will be placing the drawings yourself.
3. (Optional) Draw a border that will delineate the entire print page — how you want the page to look when printed out. The border will indicate the space you will be using for positioning the drawings, tables and text. Drawing a border is not strictly necessary, but once drawn, the border serves as a visual aid that helps you position your page's elements.
4. Do any of the following:

• On the Print toolbar, click Place Part .
• On the Tools menu, point to Print, and then click Insert Part.
• Press CTRL+I+P+P.

A contextual edit bar appears above the print drawing, in which you can edit the attributes of the drawing you are inserting:

5. In 1up, select the drawing that you want to insert. The list contains the names of all the drawings in the project.
6. If you have articles prepared for the drawing, in Article, select the article that you want displayed in the print drawing.
7. Start dragging the drawing into the graphical area, and click when you reach the place where you want to position it.

8. (Optional) To apply mirror transformation to the drawing, click Mirror part .
9. (Optional) To rotate the drawing, type a value in Angle. Learn more about how to use the Select Quadrant functionality.
10. (Optional) To scale the part, type a value in Scale X. To decrease the size of the drawing, enter a value between 0.01 and 1.00; to increase it, enter a value greater than 1.00.
11. To adjust the drawing, double-click it, and then edit the settings to make them work for your case.
12. To insert more drawings, repeat Steps 4–11 for each drawing.
13. To stop inserting drawings, press ESC.
14. Add any other types of data that you want the print drawing to display.