AutoCAD: Plotting & Publishing

Learn how to plot (aka print) and publish drawings electronically in AutoCAD. Find out how to scale views, create page setups, assign plot styles, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• What you should know before watching this course
• The new AutoCAD 2019 interface

1. Introduction to Plotting and Publishing

• Printing and plotting
• Scaling

2. Modelspace & Paperspace

• The Model tab
• The Layout tab
• Setting your limits
• Working with modelspace and paperspace

3. Page Setup Manager

• Creating a page setup
• Model tab: Page setup
• Layout tab: Page setup
• Modifying page setups
• Importing page setups

4. Viewports

• Viewports: Model
• Viewports: Layout
• Polygonal viewports
• Clipping viewports
• Making viewports from objects

5. Plotting to Scale

• Viewport scale and annotation scale
• Annotative scaling
• Adding an annotative scale

6. Quick View and Drawing Tabs

• Drawing tabs
• Quick View layouts
• Plotting and publishing from Quick View

7. Plotting Styles & Setting Up

• Color dependent plot style (CTB)
• Named plot style (STB)
• Changing plot styles
• Configuring a plotter

8. Plotting Electronically

• Plotting to DWF, DWFx, and PDF
• DWF Writer
• Autodesk Design Review
• Markup Set Manager
• Autodesk A360 Drive
• Viewing PDF files

9. Publishing Your Drawings

• The Publish dialog box
• Renaming and removing sheets
• Plot stamps
• Saving your sheet lists
• Publishing your sheet list

10. Using DWG Compare (AutoCAD 2019 Only)

• The DWG compare command
• Generating a comparison drawing
• Plotting the comparison drawing

Conclusion

• Next steps