From the course: AutoCAD: Working with Drawings Exported From Revit

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Setting up page setups

Setting up page setups - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Working with Drawings Exported From Revit

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Setting up page setups

- [Narrator] Another thing you'll need to set up when you're working with an exported CAD drawing is your page setup in your Layout tabs. So we're staying in our A-100-GROUND.dwg file. We've already sorted out the viewport not to plot, so there's our nice viewport there, that won't plot, but the nice plan view will inside our nice title block. If I just roll back on the wheel a little bit, do you notice something? The sheet doesn't actually fit the title block, the title block's a bit too small, there's that top edge there going up to dashed lines which is the print limits. So I'm going to zoom back in a notch, and just make sure that that fits nicely, there we go, so we'll centralize that on screen. Now we're going to right-click on the Layout 1 tab, and what we're going to do is we're going to rename it, and we're going to call it ISO-A1_Landscape. Now the reason we're calling it Landscape is the orientation of the title block is landscape, it's not portrait, and I'll press Enter…

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