Chapter 12: Laying Out and Printing Your Drawing


Overview

Printing in AutoCAD is a bit more complicated than in other applications-for a good reason. You'll often be required to print a drawing multiple times over the course of a project, and you'll want your drawings to be consistent from one print to the next. And since AutoCAD is a graphics program, you'll spend a greater amount of time laying out your drawings on a sheet in order to visually organize your work.

This chapter covers two aspects of printing: preparing your drawing's final appearance in a layout tab and printing your drawing. The layout tabs let you organize your drawing in a precise way and include standard drawing borders and titles while giving you flexibility in the scale and orientation of your drawing on the printed sheet. Finally, you can get an accurate view of how your drawing will look before you commit it to paper.

AutoCAD's print features offer more than just orientation and sheet sizes. You can store your printer settings so you can easily and accurately reproduce prints. Since AutoCAD offers some advanced 3D capabilities, you can combine 3D views with 2D drawings. You can even include information about the file so you can easily identify the source for the printed drawing.

If you're new to AutoCAD and you need to get started with printing, you'll want to read the first section of this chapter carefully. It provides an overview of the layout and print features in a tutorial format. The sections that follow give you more detailed information about layout tabs and how to use them. After that, you'll find more detailed information about how to print your drawing and the settings associated with printing.




Introducing AutoCAD 2008
Introducing AutoCAD 2008
ISBN: 0470121505
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 147
Authors: George Omura

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