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Batch plotting - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2017 Essential Training
Batch plotting
- [Voiceover] You will have noticed the batch plotting dialog box that keeps popping up when you want to plot in AutoCAD, the one that I've told you before in previous videos you can tick the box and it won't show it again. Now, batch plotting is an excellent tool when you're working with multiple layouts in an AutoCAD drawing. So we're staying in the 15_CreatingOutput.dwg file. And what we're going to do, we're going to do some batch plotting. Now the easiest way to do this is to go to the Output tab on the ribbon. And you'll see that we have a Batch Plot icon in the plot panel. So I click on Batch Plot, and it opens up the publish dialog box because you are publishing your layouts. Now, there's a lot of information on this dialog box. And you'll notice right down at the bottom, you can hide details like that. So it allows me to sort of bring the publish dialog down like that. Now, I'll look at the details bit in a moment at the bottom of the dialog box. Let's look at the top first…
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