From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 1 Interface and Drawing Management

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Plotting a layout

Plotting a layout

From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 1 Interface and Drawing Management

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Plotting a layout

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In addition to printing your own drawings, you may also need to print drawings you receive from others. In the event you need to print a file that's not your own, check and see if it has a preconfigured layout. Layouts can eliminate all of the guess work and many of the settings, when printing an unfamiliar drawing. In this lesson we will learn how to print a layout, I am going to screen as a drawing that represents an exploited view of a piece of furniture. Lets assume this file was emailed to me by a client for my review. I would like to print this drawing, however I am not really sure what I have here. Actually I do, this happens to be a 3D drawing of some furniture parts. Looking at the view cube it appears we re viewing the geometry from a front view, I'm going to click another hot spot to select an alternate view. And then I'll return this to the front view. Now the goal in this session is for me to print this drawing, and right now it doesn't look like I have much here…

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