Print to multiple printers

You can print to more than one printer in one go based on the paper size of each selected drawing. When printing to multiple printers you typically have different printers for handling different paper sizes. Tekla Structures automatically selects the appropriate printer for each drawing.

To print to multiple sheets, you need to:

Create and save the printing settings for the necessary printers. The printing settings also contain the color settings.
Print by using Use multiple printers mode.

Create single printing settings

To be able to print to multiple printers, you first need to create single printing settings for each of the printers you want to print to:

On the File menu, click Printing > Print drawings.
Select Use one printer.
Define the printing settings as desired on the Options tab and on the Line properties tab. Select the output type and printer, and define the paper size that this particular printer will handle in Use multiple printers mode.
Save the settings with a desired name by clicking Save.
Repeat this for each of the desired paper sizes. Do not use the size option Auto.

For example, you could create the following single printer settings files with the output type set to PDF file:
- PDF A4: Paper size set to A4, file prefix set to A4_
- PDF A3: Paper size set to A3, file prefix set to A3_
- PDF A2: Paper size set to A2, file prefix set to A2_
When printing a set of drawings in the multiple printers mode using the above single printer settings files, all A4 drawings will generate .pdf files with prefix A4_, all A3 drawings will have prefix A3_, and all A2 drawing will generate .pdf files with prefix A2_.

If you want to print more than one sheet size to the same printer in Use multiple printers mode, create a single printer settings file for each paper size, and specify the same printer in all of these files.

Print to multiple printers

On the File menu, click Printing > Print drawings.
In the displayed Document manager, select the drawings that you want to print.
You need to select the drawings to show the printing settings in the dialog.
In the upper-left corner of the Print drawings dialog, select Use multiple printers mode.
In the Selected single printer settings files list, select the settings files to use in printing. You can select all or just some of the single printer settings files.

The output type (printer, plot file, PDF file) is defined by each selected single printer settings file. Typically you would select settings files with the same output type. Output types lists the output types that are specified in the selected single printer settings files. The paper sizes defined in each printer settings file are shown next to Paper sizes.
Change other necessary settings on the Options tab.
The available settings depend on the output type you have selected. The settings are described in "Print to a PDF file, plot file or printer: Print a drawing". The Line properties tab is not displayed, because the line color definitions are defined in the selected printer settings files.
Click Print.