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Page setups

Page setups - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Page setups

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- [Instructor] Now that we have our layouts created, our text and dimensions are in place, and it's time to plot our drawing. AutoCAD has quite a few tools to help us automate printing, but most of them start with a good page setup. A page setup is created for each layout, and stores all of our defaults, like the default plotter, page size, scale, and plot styles. We can set up different page setups for different page sizes, like 24 by 36, and 11 by 17. We're going to set one up here for our eight and a half by 11 border. We'll find the Page Setup Manager here in the toolbar, or we can go up to File, and Page Setup Manager. I'm going to click on the plus so that I can add a new page setup that I'm just going to call LYNDA. I'll click Continue, and if you get a warning message here, this just has to do with the plotter configuration being specific to your machine. Just click OK, it's alright, and we'll move on and get to this screen here. This is the Page Setup dialogue, and this is…

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