CAD Print Formats | Format A1

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A1 format | A1 print | A1 sheet | A1 size | A1 print | A1 dimension

A1 Page, A1 Page, A1 Print, A1 Print, and A1 Paper are the standard paper sheet size defined in the international standard ISO 216. The dimensions of an A1 sheet are 594 x 841 mm or 59.4 x 84.1 cm or 23.39" x 33.11". The A1 format is less common than the popular A3 and A4. It is most often used to make professional printouts and plots, less often to make home printouts.

The dimensions of the A1 format are fixed in the ratio of the shorter side to the longer side, always as 1 to √2 (i.e. as the side of the square to its diagonal), rounded to the nearest millimetre. This ratio of the length of the sides results in the fact that when the sheet is folded in half with the shorter sides to each other, two sheets with the same proportion of sides as the original sheet are obtained. The surface area of an A1 paper sheet is 0.50 [m]² or 500 [cm]².

The A1 format is predefined in office suites such as Libre Office, OpenOffice or MS Office, as well as in ActCAD software, enabling printing directly to the printing device. However, due to their size, most office equipment is not able to handle printouts related to scanning or printing in this format, so most printouts made in this format are entrusted to specialized printing companies. The ActCAD software has implemented print settings for of this format. Printing is possible directly from the program to the device printing system, or via any PDF printer installed in the operating system, for example ActCAD PDF Printer to a file in the format PDF.

A1 requires print settings adapted to the dimensions of the sheet, which depend on the print quality. When printing in 300 DPI quality, the dimensions of a sheet in A1 format are 7,016 x 9,933 px, in 150 DPI quality - 3,368 x 4,768 px, and in 72 DPI quality - 1,684 x 2,384. Printing is possible directly from the program to the device printing or via a PDF file. In addition, there are specialized programs for preparing projects that allow you to precisely match the content to the A1 format, so that its full potential can be used.

Printing in A1 format is used to complete project documentation, technical drawings or printing geodetic maps in scales of 1:500, 1:1000 or 1:2000 for larger areas, the printing of which in smaller A4 and A3 formats would be economically unprofitable or introduce unnecessary complications of project documentation.

A1 CAD print format

Dimensions of the sheet A1 format in mm: 594x 841Mm.

Dimensions of the A1 sheet in cm: 59.4x 84.1Cm.

Dimensions of the sheet A1 format in inches: 23,39 " x 33,11 "

Dimensions of the sheet in A 1 format for printing in 300 DPI quality: 7 016 x 9 933 Px

Dimensions of the sheet in A 1 format for printing in 150 DPI quality: 3 368 x 4 768 Px.

Dimensions of the sheet in A 1 format for printing in 72 DPI quality: 1 684 x 2 384 Px

Map at a scale of 1:500 on A1 paper has an area of 24,948 Ha

Map at a scale of 1:1000 on A1 paper has an area of 99,792 Ha

Map at a scale of 1:2000 on A1 paper has an area of 399,198 Ha

The surface of the A1 paper sheet is 0.50 [m]²

The surface of the A1 paper sheet is 500 [cm]²

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When working with design documentation, it is important to have the right CAD tool that allows you to print materials on physical and virtual CAD printers, including A (A0, A1, A2, A3, A4) and others such as B format or American print formats. ActCAD software in the Professional, Standard and BIM versions has the required printing functions using the Print Manager.

ActCAD is a cost-effective CAD product based on ITC solutions that allows you to open, view, create from scratch and print drawings and project documentation in DWG and DXF formats. ActCAD also includes tools for importing vector data from PDF files and for printing in any format supported by the integrated ActCAD PDF Printer for PDF files. Dozens of predefined PDF print formats, including the most popular A1 and B3 formats, are available in ActCAD PDF Printer .

ActCAD also offers many other tools, such as a DXF/DWG PDF converter, ActCAD PDF Printer with the function of printing to 3D PDF files, a unit converter, drawing audit tools, tools for creating and verifying electronic signatures of drawings, a raster image converter to DXF, a library of 5000 blocks, geolocation functions, loading hybrid and digital maps, and many proprietary functions extending the capabilities of the IntelliCAD 10.1 engine.

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