I like this setting – others don’t, but now you know where it is. If you have this clicked you will see a real time ‘Plot Preview’ showing how this particular pen table will look when you plot. Note the ‘ Display Plot styles’ Check box. In the picture above I have set up to plot an A0 sized Monochrome PDF. The Page Setup dialog is very similar to the plot dialog. You can chose a name for your page setup, and you can chose which previous page set up you want to base your new Page Setup on.Ĭlicking ‘ OK’ take us to a very familiar looking dialog box… Creating a New Page setupĬlicking the ‘ New’ Button takes us to this window.
Available page set ups will be shown in the window below. Current Page Setup – Currently ‘ ‘ because we haven’t created any yet.Help – Trust me, try clicking it… don’t be shy!.Unfortunately there is no way of changing which Layout you are in once you’ve started up the Page Setup manager – so make sure you have this right before you start. In this case the default ‘Model‘ or ‘Layout1’. Current Layout – Which Layout is current.There will be different page set ups offered to you depending on which space you are in when you are in when you invoke the ‘PAGESETUP’ Command. Note: Model space Page setups are separate to Layout space Page setups. The page set up manager gives us access to all the page set ups that have been saved in the current drawing. You can also Right-click the Model tab or a layout tab and click Page Setup Manager.
Menu: Application menu > Print > Page Setup Ribbon: Output tab > Plot panel > Page Setup Manager To use them, you need to fire up the Page Setup manager:
Page set ups are a method of saving your standard plot settings so that you can use them over and over again. More AutoCAD Options for Plotting successĪutocad Plotting – What is hidden beneath the Plot Dialogue arrow?īut what if you need to plot the same drawing a number of times using different settings? If you need to catch up, please read the following posts…Īn introduction to AutoCAD’s Plotting options
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We even discussed how to save your plot settings so you don’t have to spend time setting up your plots. If you’ve been following my previous posts on plotting with AutoCAD, You will know all about the various options and settings that are available to you before you even hit ‘Plot’.