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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 16

The Plot Thickens

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Setting up for printing and plotting

Bullet Plotting model space

Bullet Plotting to scale

Bullet Plotting paper space layouts

Bullet Plotting with lineweights and colors

Bullet Controlling plotters with plot styles

Bullet Troubleshooting plots

Despite the infinitesimally small number of offices without a computer (or two) on every desk or in a pocket, many people still want or need to work with easily readable, dead-tree paper drawings or electronic drawings (can you spell P-D-F?). You may need to give hard-copy printouts or PDF files to less savvy colleagues who don’t have AutoCAD, or to people on construction sites where relatively delicate computers wouldn’t survive long. You may want to print hard copies to review during your bus ride home. You may even find that checking drawings ...

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