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Setting printing and plotting options - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: AutoCAD Certified Professional
Setting printing and plotting options
- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our LayoutsPrinting_HOUSE.dwg file, and what we're going to look at now is preparing our drawing to be printed, plotted, perhaps sent to an electronic file format, such as DWF or PDF for example, and basically, when you're setting up your printing options the quickest way to do it is to use the Page Setup Manager. Now, we've got three different layout tabs. You don't normally plot from the Model tab. So, the Model tab, if I click on it, is where you do all your design and draw everything full-size. You then setup your layouts, like so, and they are all setup with a title block and scaled viewports to communicate the information from the model space, the Model tab. So, we've got our D-Sized layout tab, we've got our Living Room layout tab, and we've got our Entrance Hall layout tab, like so. Now, I'm going to go to the D-Sized layout tab and make that current. I'm then going to right click here, and I'm going to go to Page Setup Manager on…
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