Chapter 20: Sharing Your Work with Others

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Overview

Following this lesson, you will:

• Know how to plot a drawing

  • Setting up a plotter or printer

  • Creating a plot style

  • Setting up a drawing (page)

  • Plotting

• Know how to plot multiple drawings at one time (Batch Plotting)

• Know how to create an eTransmittal

• Know how to publish a drawing to the web

Goods which are not shared are not goods.

        Vernando de Rojas, La Celestina, Act 1

Sharing. This simple word might carry different meanings for different people. Indeed, it might mean something different for the same person depending on that person's circumstances.

Certainly, you must share the results of your labor – at least if you want to get paid for it – and for this purpose, AutoCAD provides the tried-and-true Plot command as well as the eTransmit tools and the new Publish command.

We'll start with the Plot command and explore the ways AutoCAD has provided for you to share the work and then share the fruit.

Let's begin.

Note 

A General Note to Students and Instructors:

Many instructors prefer to cover plotting early in a course; others prefer to cover it at the end. For this reason, we've made this lesson completely modular. The instructor might choose to cover this material earlier in the course.

However, I don't recommend covering this material later than this. Material in the next few chapters assumes familiarization with plotting.

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