How to change the scale of a printed plan?

[boblarota]

Hello, I've been using Sweet Home 3D with no problems for months now printing plans at the same scale as the background plan (1:50).

Now I need to detail up some parts of a plan and have changed the scale to 1:20 in page setup, but the plan that prints is not 1:20 or even close (it's something like 1:32!).

What am I doing wrong?
Bob

[Puybaret]

Did you actually checked on a printed page that 1/50 scale was correct? Is the width of the plan printed with a 1/20 scale really less than twice larger compared to the width of the plan printed with a 1/50 scale?

[boblarota]

Hi Emmanuel and thanks for the reply.

I was a town planner for years so I understand scales [:)]

At 1:50 it prints to the right size. I changed the scale in page setup to 1:20 but the printed page is not 1:20.

Any ideas?

Bob

[boblarota]

Hi Emmanuel, I've worked out what the problem is!!

I have 2 printers, one A4, one A3. I set the paper size originally at A3 but when I changed printer I forgot to change the paper size to A3 in Page setup > Page format!! Hence it was scaling down from A3 to A4 by that weird amount.

This is only a trap for someone with 2 printers, probably a minority

Thanks for an excellent programme!!
Bob