There is a new question. Can I control the automatic generation by hand? It looks waste more paper.
Sort of. What you will want to do is arrange your pieces in Piece Mode and then export to an SVG, PDF or DXF. You can then print or use another app like Inkscape to further manipluate your pieces before printing.
One trick to use: In Draft mode create a block and subsquent piece the size of paper you want to layout on. Say A1. Then when you are in Piece mode you can manually arrange the pieces to fit inside your paper piece. Uncheck to not include your paper piece when exporting.
The only downside to this currently is you can’t flip or rotate pieces. We have plans in the works for a manual layout.
Another thing to note is you can view a layout as a tiled PDF, and simply not print pages that are blank. I always found though that saving time was more important than a few sheets of paper.
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