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Previewing the plot

Previewing the plot - AutoCAD LT Tutorial

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Previewing the plot

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- [Instructor] We're starting a new chapter now, and we're gonna be looking at how you print your drawing from from AutoCAD LT. And we've got a new drawing for you to do that, it's creatingoutput.dwg. See the name of it there at the top of the screen? And as usual, you can download it from the library to follow along with the videos in this chapter. Now the first thing we're going to look at in this chapter is previewing your print or plot. It's really important that you do that sanity check to make sure that it all looks okay before you hit the button and send it to a pdf, a dwf, or even printing it to paper. That's really important, because if you keep printing and plotting all the wrong plans and drawings, and they don't look right, not only are you wasting your time, but you're wasting lots of ink, and also lots of paper. And in this sustainable world in which we live, you don't really want to do that. So, this particular drawing, creatingoutput.dwg, has a couple of layout tabs…

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