OK, Here's one more post on dealing with printing out your Rhino Unfolds. Of course your first (easiest) option is to print out directly from the rhino file to the large format printer in sculpture. The steps below are a workaround in case you can't get this printer to work - they allow you to break up large drawings and print them out on multiple (tiled) 81/2" by 11" pages on any of the printers in the campus labs including the MAC labs in Patterson building (or on your printer at home). You can then tape these pages together to make a large template. It's much more time consuming but it may be useful in a pinch.
Steps:
1. In your Rhino model select all of the objects in the viewport that you want to print. (It's helpful to export a measurement somewhere on the screen to help with the final scaling)
2. Choose File > Export Selected
3. A popup window will open with options for how where and what filetype you want to export as. The filetype choices are the lower box in this window - choose an adobe illustrator (.ai) file.
4. Chose to export the file at 1 to 1 scale or without scaling.
5. Save to your portable USB drive.
6. Take your USB drive to a computer lab with a printer that you know you can print from and open the file in Illustrator
7. Select File > Print
8. On the left hand side of the popup window select the setup menu.
9. For Tiling select Tile Full Pages
10. Set the overlap amount so that there is enough overlap that you don't lose important information between the pages.
11. Select Print
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