24. PLOT or Printing in AutoCAD

As you know every program (well, almost every may have a function (command) to Print your work.

In AutoCAD to print called PLOT. So when you finish drawing you can print to the printer (plotters) or a virtual printer in the form of formats (JPG, PNG, etc..). PLOTTING of drawings is carried out through a previously prepared CTB file with adjusted line Thicknesses and Colors.

Preparations for the PLOT drawings are as follows:

Made a drawing
Installed the printer (plotter) or virtual printer

Finished drawing (or part of the drawing) you can PLOT in several ways.

from MODEL (selected view)
from LAYOUT (selected view)

In as much PLOT (print) a drawing that requires you to have Component. For details, see the link Component.

If you're drawing after Plotting (printing) is not in color and have a Plotter (printer), color settings, see the Layer for plotting. The respective settings you can adjust the Thickness of the Lines on the printed drawing. So look at the Plot Style Manager to customize settings for your Plotter. For more details see the link line thickness for Plotting in Color.

For the very initial print shop drawings on A4 or A3 paper or some other format securities with requirements that are listed at the beginning should be positioned in the Model or Layout (whichever you want to print)
After positioning in one of these modes it is necessary to run the command File => Page Setup Manager and in accordance with the positioning we have one of the following dialog window. The first mode is a MODEL and the second mode LAYOUT1 (please see images below). It is necessary to click the Modify button.

After clicking on the Modify button appears, you are one of the dialog window. For MODEL and LAYOUT and apply the following settings need.

Definition CTB file was previously installed files from the default thickness of lines and other elements in the drawing that is on paper. (This is much used in surveying). Note the other settings that are essential for the preparation Plot on paper.
Also note that you can center the drawing when plotting and that it can move the paper axis X and Y. After installation settings, click on the PREVIEW button to see how it will look like on paper. Then click the Right Mouse Button (DTM) => Exit => OK => Close. Now you have set the settings for printing drawings.

Printing or plotting from the mode MODEL

Take for example that we have such a figure as the figure below (the regime of a model and view the Conceptual Visual Style. We want Plot only part of the drawing (for example, the left tower).

We are located in operation MODEL. Previously, we set the position paper, etc. Now click on a FILE command => PLOT and then in the "Plot Area" select from drop-down menu "Window". Now we are in the foreground appeared a drawing cursor is a white cross. Select part of the drawing.

After clicking on the final selective area appears to us to Plot dialog window - Setup. Click on the PREVIEW button and you will get the appearance of drawings on paper that you have selected from.

Simply click the DTM (right-mouse-click) on the drawing and the command PLOT. Print will be drawing on paper what you see in the Preview view. Note! that this procedure in the operation MODEL.
So when you have some great drawing and you want to print only part of the drawing (ZOOM art depends what you want), then you can use this way of plotting the mode MODEL (often used in geodesy without LISP). Here is an irrelevant Scale.

Printing or plotting from the mode LAYOUT

If you want to print out mode LAYOUT also have two options.

The first option is:

Switch mode LAYOUT (1 or 2, etc.)
After that immediately comes up a dialog box for the PLOT-SETUP. Settings that you want to set a setting for "Plot Area" set in Layout. When you click the Preview button will show you a blank paper, but after closing the same returns as well as the layout and you will see your drawing on paper.

Here, note that you layer the "Set Current layer" (currently active), ie its color. The same color will be the box art (MODEL), where you can change the zoom, position, etc , drawings.

So if the status toolbar, click the button PAPER/MODEL or modify the activity so you will be able to manipulate the drawing. (for more details please see the Video on YouTube.

When you are active PAPER, you can ZOOM complete paper with all the boxes, and possibly additional elements that have attributes (if any beyond the drawing. eg: if you have a LISP that contains some kind of elements or components, eg: template cadastral plan in geodesy) .

When you are active MODEL then you can manipulate images within a frame containing the pattern (ie. zoom, rotate, etc. ..)

Second option is:

If you are not satisfied with the first possibility then you can set PAPER mode several views of the drawing (Viewports). To have for example: this print drawings. Note that the complete layout is shown in MODEL and the current active model (a separate box art) is a vertical thick lines thicker frame.

For such action is necessary to proceed as described in steps at this link Component in AutoCAD. Here is described Insert Block for printing, but in the same way you can define multiple views on a drawing for plotting.

AutoCAD - export images in JPG form

Example, you created a drawing in AutoCAD and you want to send him a friend but as a JPG or PNG file or inserted into Word or Excel document.

Follow the steps how it works:

1. This is our drawing.

2. On the Text menu, click File => Plot (or CTRL + P)

3. Then select the Printer/plotter "PublishToWebJPG.pc3" or PNG option.
Enable "Center the Plot"
Later we will select the paper size.
If you have no choice "PublishToWebJPG.pc3" then go to Tools => Options => Plot and Publish => and uncheck "Hide system printers".

4. After selecting the options you will get this window (or similar). Choose the top option for a small picture (or if you want higher resolution, then select the options below).