Chapter 14 Using Layouts to Set Up a Print

A design is only as good as your ability to communicate that design to the people building it. Printing, or plotting as it’s called in the Autodesk® AutoCAD® program, is considered by many to be the final phase of that communication process. Preparing a document set can be just as challenging as plotting it.

As you work through this chapter and the next, you’ll quickly discover the incredible control you have over nearly every aspect of how a drawing plots. This versatility means you can probably get AutoCAD to plot exactly the way you want. However, remembering each of those settings can prove challenging. Consequently, the key to getting consistent plots is to find a way to capture all those settings ...

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