| Save plans to your personal computer. |
| If you connect to the internet using a dial-up service, we recommend you upgrade to a broadband connection. The plans, specifications and addenda are typically very large files. The download time to view or save the documents using anything less than a broadband connection can be extremely slow.
To save a drawing to your personal computer, please follow the steps below: |
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Go to the project page that contains the desired drawing. |
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Find the drawing by scrolling down the list. |
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Right-click on the desired drawing. |
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Left-click on "Save Target As". |
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At this point you are able to choose where you would like to save the document to on your personal computer. We suggest placing the document in either your documents folder or on the desktop. Most problems occur when the user saves a document or file to a unknown location. |
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Click save. |
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Go to the folder where you saved the file and double left click on the document to open it. |
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To save multiple drawings, repeat steps 3 through 6 until all desired drawings are downloaded. |
| Print or view plans, specifications, addenda, etc. |
| By default, documents viewed on our website will be viewed within your web browser. The Adobe Reader plug-in will add a component to your web browsers which will enable you to view documents with a PDF (Adobe) extension. |
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Plans |
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Although the text is quite small when printing the drawings to an 81/2 x 11, we find that the writing is quite legible and very useful to our bidders. You can print the drawings the same way you would print any other document. Unfortunately, if you do not have Adobe Reader Version 5 or later you cannot print off selected areas of the drawings onto an 8 1/2 X 11 sheet of paper. |
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You can use the graphics select tool to print a selected area of the drawing to an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet. |
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Click on the graphics select tool on the toolbar. (it looks like a dashed box with a square and circle inside.) |
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Left-click and hold, then drag to create a box around the desired area (whatever is within the box area will print.) |
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Press the print icon in the Adobe toolbar, or file and print if not interfaced with the browser. |
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Each printer will have slightly different settings in the print menu. Print range should have selected graphic marked. Below the number of copies, you will see "shrink oversized pages to paper size". Make sure that is selected. Next, you will see expand small pages to paper size. This is the setting that will allow you to print a small detail to an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet and have it expand to fit the page, so make sure that is selected. |
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Press ok |
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The graphics select tool can be unreliable. If you experience difficulties printing a detail, restart your system and try it again. Additionally, some printers work better than others when printing PDF formatted files. |
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Specifications |
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Our specification files are multi-document files. We scan each division into a section in order to reduce the amount of links we create on our website. If your area of work is within a given division, you should select the correct division and scroll down until you get to your section. When you get to your page, look at the bottom left corner, and Adobe should list the page you are on. For example: pg 12. If you only want to print your code, then when you select print, choose the option to print "page 12 to 12" (only page 12 will print) or select "12 to 16" and pages 12 to 16 will print. By default, all pages will print if the "from" box is left blank. |
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Addenda |
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Addenda files are formatted similarly to the specification files on our website, with one exception: drawings are not always included in the multi-page scan. Drawings can be listed below the text information on the projects page. |
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Other |
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Sometimes we receive information we feel will be useful to the bidders. Examples of some of the items we have posted in the past are: pictures of the site, letters of intent, and bidding instructions. All files, with the exception of the pictures, will be in PDF format. The pictures posted on our site will be in a web compatible format. |
