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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 in our GF-1031 Southeast Madison.dwg file. We're now in a position to think about plotting our layout tab that we created with our page setup. So let's go down to the ISO A1-Landscape layout tab. We've got our viewports in place. All our annotative dimensions are in place. Our viewports are where we want them to be. Our title block is positioned exactly on the sheet due to the page setup. Now, you can plot from numerous different locations in AutoCAD. You can plot from the Output tab. So in the Plot panel here, I can click on Preview. That'll preview what I'm going to plot. I can right-click and plot on the shortcut menu. If I hit Escape, I can also plot here from the little menu bar in the preview. I'll close the preview by clicking on the little red cross. Now, that's one way of plotting. I can also right-click here on the actual layout tab itself, and go to Plot there. That will open up the Plot dialogue, and I can click on Preview here. And as you…

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