From the course: AutoCAD: Plotting & Publishing
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Layout tab: Page setup - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Plotting & Publishing
Layout tab: Page setup
- [Voiceover] In the previous video, we looked at setting up a page setup in the Model tab of the drawing. What we're going to do in this video is set up a new page setup in the layout tabs of our current AutoCAD drawing. The GA layout tab is current, so you should have the view that I've got there, of a nice title block with a blue viewport, showing an overall GA view of the building with the grids and the dimensions, et cetera. Now, the reason I've chosen that one is it's set to a particular sheet size, which is the ISO A1 size. And what we're going to do is we're going to make that a much smaller sheet size. And you may ask why you would do that. Well, I'm a bit old school. I used to physically plot drawings and take them out on site with me back in the day. And an A1 sheet size is roughly 0.8 meters by 0.6 meters in size. And it's the sort of drawing that you would hold down with bricks on the bonnet or hood of your car, when you were out on site on a windy day. Now obviously, the…
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