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Plotting

Plotting - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Plotting

- [Instructor] Let's take a moment and briefly run through the basic plotting settings in AutoCAD for Mac. I'll go to File, and then down to Print. This opens up the Plot dialog box. If we have a previous page set up, set for our drawing, we can access it here. We'll go into page setups in another video, but essentially these are templates or defaults specifically set for printing. For our printer, we can either choose a local printer if you have one installed, or you can use a virtual or software printer like the AutoCAD PDF ones that are found here. I'll choose General Documentation, and then I can choose my paper size. If you're using a virtual printer, you should have access to almost any paper size that you can find. However, if you were using a physical printer, this will only list the paper that your printer supports. I'm going to choose ANSI A right here. There we are. And then I can choose what it is I want to print. I can either print just what my display is, the Extents…

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