I have not been able to figure out a way, using Alibre, to print something, 1 to 1, where the extents of the drawing are larger than my printer paper. However all this brings up a couple of situations with printing I have myself: I do not know if anyone these days takes a ruler (scale) to a drawing to find out "missing" dimensions, or uses a drawing to set dividers when transferring layouts onto metal.
#Print to scale to fit 11x17 no borders software
I usually just check "scale to fit" and let the software fibure it out what it needs to do to get it on the paper. I usually get a warning that my drawing will not fit on the paper and it does not. So if your model can fit on the sheet and you have "drawn" the part 1 to 1, then the part will print actual size on the paper, or in the case of the front view having been scaled, it should print to that scale, and if all is well you can then scale directly from the drawing, just like the old days. If you unselect this the drawing should print to whatever scale you have selected for the front view. With "scale to fit" selected I usually do not get any warnings from Alibre. What I belive happens when this is selected is that the drawing itself is re-scaled to fit onto the paper and show the complete drawing, and if something is outside the paper size boundary box it will be included and the entire drawing it will shrink everything to fit on the printout, in an arbitrary relative scale. In the options box there is a "scale to fit" check box. After selecting print, or cntrl-P you should get a print window.
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