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Layout and plotting tips for AutoCAD

By Ellen Finkelstein

Almost everyone needs to plot or print drawings. Here are some tips for working with layouts and plotting. Please leave a comment with your own tips so we can have a great plotting resource all in one place!

(Thanks to Jozef2011 for the image, found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ColorPlotter.jpg.)

Working with layouts To see what is on […]

February 13th, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: Plotting & Output | 13 comments

Tutorials：Dimension in paper space

By Ellen Finkelstein

Dimensioning in paper space has several advantages:

You don’t have to worry about the size of the dimension arrowheads, text, etc. Everything is full size and you plot at 1:1 scale. You can place the dimensions outside the border of the viewport, giving you more room. You can easily dimension some parts of the model […]

April 6th, 2005 | Tags: , | Category: Text & Dimensions | 15 comments