ChangePrintArea

The ChangePrintArea command sets the rectangular region that Print Manager exports. It runs on the bare canvas with the Print Manager hidden, and takes two opposite corners — the same two picks as Rectangle, so typed coordinates and snapping behave exactly as they do there.

Selecting an area

  1. Type ChangePrintArea in the terminal, or click Change Area in the Print Manager sidebar. The Print Manager hides and the canvas becomes interactive.
  2. Click the first corner, or type X,Y and press Enter for an exact coordinate.
  3. Click the opposite corner, or type X,Y again.

Print Manager reopens with the new area in the preview, which resizes to that area’s exact aspect ratio.

Corners snap to grips and intersections like any other point pick, so you can crop to drawn geometry instead of by eye. The two corners can be given in any order — opposite corners define the same rectangle whichever you pick first.

Press Escape to cancel. Nothing is written, so Print Manager reopens with whatever area it already had.

Where the area is remembered

The selection is stored per context rather than globally:

ContextSlot
Model spaceOne shared slot
Each layoutIts own slot, kept separately

Reopening Print Manager on the same layout — or on Model — restores that context’s own last crop instead of resetting, and switching between layouts leaves each one’s area intact.

This is held in memory only. Reloading the page clears every stored area, and Print Manager falls back to the defaults below.

Default area

With nothing stored for the current context, Print Manager opens on:

ContextDefault
Model spaceThe bounding box of all entities — the same extent Fit zooms to
A layoutThe full sheet
CommandWhat it does
Print ManagerThe export window this area applies to
RectangleThe same two-corner pick, but draws a polyline
FitZooms to the extent Model space defaults to