Plotting the Plan.....Cont 01

9.
Go ahead and plot the file: Right-click, and choose Plot from the shortcut menu. AutoCAD
sends the drawing to your printer.
10.
Your plotter or printer prints the plan to no particular scale.
You’ve just plotted your first drawing to see how it looks on paper. You used the minimal
settings to ensure that the complete drawing appears on the paper.
You may notice that a message bubble appears in the lower-right corner of the AutoCAD window.



If you click the text that reads
Click to view plot and publish details...,
the Plot And Publish Details
dialog box opens to display some detailed information about your plot.




As you become more experienced with AutoCAD and your projects become more demanding,
the information presented in the Plot And Publish Details dialog box may be useful to you. For
now, make a mental note that this information is available should you need it.
Next, try plotting your drawing to an exact scale. This time, you’ll expand the Plot dialog box to
show a few more options:
WARNING
It’s important to make sure you use the appropriate unit settings in this chapter. If
you’ve been using the metric measurements for previous exercises, make sure you use the metric
settings in the exercises of this chapter; otherwise, your results won’t coincide.
1.
Choose File 
Plot again to open the Plot dialog box. If the Name option in the Printer/
Plotter group shows None, click the drop-down arrow and select your current Windows
system printer.