Printing and Plotting
Positioning an AutoCAD drawing on the printer output is something of an art. Before you are faced with a deadline with hundreds of plots to produce, you may want to create some test plots and carefully refine your plotter settings so that you’ll have AutoCAD set...
Printing and Plotting
Unlike most other programs, AutoCAD offers hundreds of page setup options. It can be quite a chore keeping track of and maintaining all of these options. But as you settle into using AutoCAD, you’ll probably find that you will set up a few plotter configurations...
Printing and Plotting
When you first open a Layout tab, you see the Page Setup dialog box. Since Layout tabs show you the layout ‘of your drawing as it will appear when it is plotted, layouts need to be linked to a sheet size..You can also link each Layout tab to a different plot...
Printing and Plotting
So far, you’ve learned that you can control how AutoCAD translates drawing colors into plotter output. You also have the option to assign plot styles directly to objects or layers. In order to do this, you need make a few changes to the settings in AutoCAD and...
Printing and Plotting
Technical drawings can have a beauty of their own, but they can also be deadly boring. What really sets a good technical drawing apart from a poor one is the control of line weights. Knowing how to vary and control line weight in both manual and CAD drawings can make...
Printing and Plotting
AutoCAD 2900 introduces a new feature called plot style tables. Plot style tables are settings that give you control over how objects in your drawing are translated into hard copy plots. You can control how colors are translated into line weight and how area fills are...
