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Printing and plotting your AutoCAD drawings

Printing and plotting your AutoCAD drawings - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Printing and plotting your AutoCAD drawings

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- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our GF 1031 Southeast Madison.DWG file. We are now at a point where we can think about actually plotting our drawing to communicate our design intent. We've created a simple title block. We've created the page setup for that title block. We've added some view ports to the ISO A1 landscape layout tab, and we've set up the scales of those view ports to work with our annotative dimension annotation. So everything's kind of ready to go. Now the good thing is there's lots of different ways of plotting your drawing. If I go up to the output tab here on the ribbon, you'll notice I've got a preview option. Now the good thing is we're in the appropriate layout tab and I can click on preview and it will apply the page setup to that preview. So you'll notice you're not seeing the outline of your view ports because the view ports layer is set not to plot. The title block fits nicely on the sheet due to the page setup and our scales of our view ports are…

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