EQ7 Printing Foundations

When you are working in EQ7 (Electric Quilt software) you may wish to print paper foundation pieces.  This can be a little tricky since you can only print a page that is 8.5" by 11"  So what do you do??? You could make all your blocks smaller than that - but what fun is that?  I hate being limited. Let's find a solution.

I was stumped on this for a bit, but I did figure it out.  Of course I want to share it with you.  This is a block I drew that is not easily cut and pieced.  So if I made it, I would probably do paper piecing.

Here is the drawing of the block:

Getting those angles and points right by cutting and piecing would be a real chore.
So in EQ7 click on the Printer button. It will drop down a menu where you can choose Foundation Pattern.

Then you will get a window with three tabs, pick options

This is important because on this tab you can choose the size of your block(s.) I have already set mine to 9" square.  (you just type the number in the box)
Now click Preview

This will bring up a nice preview of how the foundation will print.

OOPS!  It is going to chop it up. I don't want to have to tape or glue pieces together.  Relax, we can fix this.
There is a nice little "MOVE" feature.  In the above picture look at the top.  See that move button?  When you click it then you can rearrange the pieces - just click, hold and drag.
There doesn't this look better?

Now you can print the foundations and go sew them.
I hope that some of you that use EQ7 will try this.