in this video we're going to look at the new features in onyx 21. we'll explain how to use
them and talk about how they may benefit you in your workflow now that we're back in rib cue
the next onyx 21 feature that we're going to take a look at is the ability to generate pdf tile maps
pdf tile maps can be generated by quick set for automation they can be done manually on a
per job basis in job editor or they can be done in ripcube before or after a print has been completed
so the first thing i'm going to do is open up one of our sample files and i've got it set
to open in job editor and we'll look at how tiling maps work in job editor to begin with
with my job open in job editor i want to navigate to the tiling tab
and i want to enable tiling at this point you would set up the tiling as needed for your job
but for the purposes of this demo i'm just going to come in here and add a couple of tiles
next you'll notice there's a new tab here tile map i'm going to click on that and you'll see the
options for the tile map generation the first one generate tile map at rip time enabling this will
generate the tile map automatically once the job is done ripping in rip queue
next is the folder you can open this to select the location you'd like the tile map to be stored in
we have a new default location in the onyx directory of tile maps i'm going to leave
that next we have the ability to add a page for each tile i'm going to select that this means
that each tile will be represented on its own page individually in addition to the tile map
we have a page size selection we have orientation some tile jobs will work better in portrait
and others in landscape mostly has to do with what size and what orientation your tiles are
for the purposes of this demo i'm going to select landscape and then lastly we have the generate
tile map button if you select this you can create a tile map in job editor while you're setting the
job up you can see that it's got the job name and it's adding tilemap at the end and it's a pdf and
it's in our default tile map folder so i'm going to click save which will generate our tile map
and then i'm going to browse out location and open that tile map
you can see here that i've now opened that pdf tile map and my job is here the name overall size
number of tiles and my overlap i didn't configure any overlap on this particular job if there
were any it would be listed here you can see i've got all of my tiles in the tile map here
organized just the way they were set up in job editor if i scroll down
you can see i've got all my tiles here just the way i set it up in job editor if i scroll down the
next page is a tile list that tells me each of the tiles the row the column and the size and because
i selected to have each tile on a separate page i can now go down and see each tile individually in
a larger image one really nice feature if i click on the job name it's going to return me back to
the top of my tile map additionally if i'd like to go straight to a tile i can navigate to it in the
tile map and i can click on that tile and it will take me there now that your tile map's completed
you can email this or print it out and include it for an installer to take with them on the job
next i'm going to head back into rip queue and we'll look at how to
do tile maps as part of a quick set for automation
now that we're back in rib cue we're going to go back into edited quick sets
we're going to select the quick set we want to add the pdf tile map feature to i've got the default
selected here i'm going to select edit inside the edit quick sets dialog i'm going to go to advanced
the first thing i'm going to do is come to the tile setup section
you'll notice that tiling is not enabled if you were to go to tile map you'll see all the controls
are grayed out and you've got a note saying the tilemap setup cannot be configured until tiling
has been enabled in tile setup so we're going to go back to tile setup we're going to enable tiling
same as in job editor this is the point where you would want to configure your tiling options
of course because this is a quick set any job that's opened or ripped with this quick set is
going to have these tiling options applied to them next we're going to go back to the tile map and
you'll see that the controls are the same as they were in job editor for the quick set purposes the
most important one is that you do want to turn on the generate tile map at rip time the folder can
be designated again just like we talked about in job editor we have the option to add pages
for each tile which can be enabled or disabled then we have our page size and our orientation
and that covers how to enable tile maps as part of a quick set for automation
the last portion is we're going to take a look at how to generate tile maps inside
of rip queue for a tile job that may have been printed already or is yet to be printed
back in rib cue i've got a couple of jobs that i've already set up here
one of them is a tile job that's waiting to be printed you can see my tile lines here
and then the other one is a tile job that's already been printed
with the new pdf tile map feature you can generate a tile map for either job it's as
easy as going to the job right clicking on it and selecting the option for generate tile map
as with the other options in job editor in the quick set you'll be presented with the
tile map options add a page for each tile page size and orientation and then you would
click generate tile map so let's generate a tile map for a job that was already printed
right click the job select generate tile map we have our options i'm going to select add
pages for each tile and as before i'm going to select landscape when i click generate tile map
it's going to bring up the location you can see our previous tile maps in our tile maps folder
we're going to generate a new one with the job name underscore tile map by default click save i
get the notification that it was done successfully i click ok and i can now browse to that folder and
open up that tile map here's our new tile map with our tiling designation you can see our
overall size number of tiles and i can click on each tile that i'd like to browse to individually