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Know what your plot will look like when you use plot styles

By Ellen Finkelstein

Here is a guest blog post from Paul Munford.

Did you know that you can set AutoCAD up to show you exactly how your plot will look, even before you Preview it? (You can click the Preview button in the Plot dialog box to preview your plot.)

It’s easy – when you know how. […]

March 13th, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: Plotting & Output | 4 comments

Tutorial: Create a plot style (color-dependent)

By Ellen Finkelstein

Do you need a way to integrate flexible display into your plots? For example, you may want to produce draft plots that use less ink. Or you may want to plot all in black, or shades of gray. You may want to change solid fills to hatches for some plots.

The way to create multiple […]

February 12th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: Plotting & Output | 14 comments

Plot on a black & white printer

By Ellen Finkelstein

Do you ever print out draft plots on a black & white laser printer? If so, you may have found that the plots were in grayscale and some of your objects were such a light gray that they were hard to see. Instead, you’d probably like all objects to appear in full black.

Here’s a […]

November 4th, 2007 | Tags: , | Category: Plotting & Output | 7 comments