Hide pattern pieces when printing?
Hi!
I have a pattern with a some identical pieces, and I want to print only the pieces I've selected (to not waste paper).
Selecting multiple pieces with "Shift" before printing has no effect (on CLO 5.2 for macOS). This doesn't work both in the "Print Layout" and in "Snapshot → 2D Patterns (1:1)".
Moving patterns out of the printing area in the "Print Layout" also has no effect — they still appear in the final image/PDF document.
Is this possible to do something like that CLO, or do I have to resort to exporting to DXF and use some other CAD to print patterns?
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I suppose you could allocate a separate fabric color you won't use in your fabric stack for those pattern pieces and simply drag that material onto those patterns you don't want in the print layout pdf. Then just export the fabrics you want to print and discard the one you don't want.
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>I suppose you could allocate a separate fabric color you won't use in your fabric stack for those pattern pieces and simply drag that material onto those patterns you don't want in the print layout pdf. Then just export the fabrics you want to print and discard the one you don't want.
Unfortunately that wouldn't work in the "Print Layout", try running "Nest All Patterns".
I've elaborated a bit more on this here: https://support.clo3d.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360049080814-Hide-some-pattern-pieces-when-printing
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>CLO3D makes layout plot files according to the fabric type
Sorry, I wasn't reading this carefully enough, this indeed works even with "Nest All Patterns" feature!
>Although you can place a 2D pattern off the plot width (excluding it from the printable area)
It still seems to be still "printed" when exporting PLT, just after the initial sheet of fabric. And this is quite counter-intuitive, not counting the multitude ways CLO 3D has to export a garment and get a different rendeing of nothches and other things via "Save Image", "Export" and "Snapshot".
By the way, what I'm trying to do is to print patterns using a standard A4 printer, and trying PNG (which needs to be cut into A4-sized sheets and combined into PDF for printing) and PDF export (which also needs to be cut into tiles, but you also get nonoptimal placement, insanely thin lines to cut on and missing marks e.g. grain line), realized that PLT is probably the way to go forward, even through it needs to be converted into to PDF first and then cut into A4 tiles.
>Note plot files relative to fabric roll width are not like the drafting pattern layouts, so you need to take into account how a nested marker looks relative to a draft dxf layout. I trust you understand the differences between these for digital sampling. If not post me and maybe I can explain. dxf is about exchange of data pattern pieces to drafting standards for datafile exchange whilst print plot layouts are for sample making onto cloth (as marker) layouts. Very different things.
I didn't quite get what you mean by the "nested marker", but it seems that DXF with the layer extensions that AAMA/ASTM provide are actually not that far from sample making, quoting http://www.intacomp.co.za/download/edc5ce3a-813a-11e3-941e-139ce3ef2ce8/:
>But if the DXF-AAMA format is used, files can contain many patterns either nested, or non-nested, in a form which can be easily processed and used by plotter operators.
As for the:
>Therefore a pdf will be a draft (printable) layout of the patterns relative to CAD drafting and the dxf will be a polyline pattern piece of bounded items within a data layer structure. And a plot will be a nested pattern piece layout relative to (fabric) cloth width and printer plot (paper) + printer size. These all differ.
That's understandable, however what was really confusing and inconsistent is that "Export → PLT" is actually about exporting relative to fabric/cloth, while the rest of the formats listed in the "Export" menu are relative to the CAD drafting.
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Plotting on A4 sounds wildly painful !
Save it out as a single large format PDF layout instead and the line weight will be much better.
With Adobe Acrobat reader for large format pdf files you can use the print poster feature, that will automatically create the overlapped A4 prints with crop marks from the single larger (wide format) pdf plot (just check your page setup is set to A4 100%) and you should be good to go direct to print. Many don't know that feature has been in Adobe for 15+ years, makes it an easy task and keeps the main wide format print file as a single item.
Yes- export for plotting (is a draft record of the patterns in the 2D drafting space). Where the sample making plots (markers) are laid out for per-production making (cutting cloth). That is why I emphasized they have different goals in my previous post, they all produce pattern outputs however the media is relative to what workflow you intend to next do.
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