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AutoCAD For Dummies, 19th Edition
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AutoCAD For Dummies, 19th Edition

by Ralph Grabowski
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
544 pages
15h 31m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 12

Planning for Paper

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Setting up paper space layouts

Bullet Looking into viewports

Bullet Examining details at other scales

Bullet Working in paper space

Most of this book revolves around setting up and using the model space environment that is infinitely large (or at least 1099 units across), a three-dimensional realm in which you create your gleaming towers, tomorrow’s wondrous electronic gadgetry — or everyday garden sheds, angle brackets, and doorknobs. You may, however, have picked up a hint here and there that AutoCAD has a whole different parallel universe available to you, known as paper space.

The final product of all this setup, remember, is a printed drawing on a piece of paper or in a digital format, such as PDF. In most industries, paper drawings are legal contract documents, so they need to be easy to read and understand. In the first part of the documentation process, you configure the layout of the sheet in paper space, which I explain in this chapter. For the actual process of outputting either model space or paper space layouts to a printer or a file, see

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