The important one here is ‘When changing Plot device’. Again, unless you have a specific reason as to why you would want this turned on, I recommend that you turn it off to prevent clutter. The plot will be created whenever you save or close the file that you are working on. PDF or DWF) from you drawings whenever you change them. This section allows you to have Autocad automatically create ‘electronic’ plots (e,g. If you want to have it on, I recommend that you set it to ‘Save one continuous log’ or you will end up with your project folders peppered with Plot Logs. Unless you charge per-plot I don’t see why you’d need this, so you can turn it off.
This section enables you to keep an automatic log of all the plotting you’ve done. This may take some time if you are plotting a lot of drawings.ĭon’t worry, it is still quicker than plotting each drawing one at at time, and it will give you a chance to make a coffee whilst your Boss thinks you are working hard (I won’t tell if you don’t) 4. Plot and publish log file You will see Autocad open and close each drawing file you have told it to plot. This means that you won’t be able to work whilst Autocad is creating the plot files and sending them to the plotter. There’s been some bugs with this that don’t seem to have cleared up. I don’t recommend that you turn on ‘Enable background plot when Publishing’. I’m happy to wait the couple of seconds it takes to spool the plot file. You can turn on ‘Enable background plot when Plotting’ If you want, but I find it slows my machine down and makes it a bit buggy. This means that you can continue working while your plot files spool. This option enable background plotting and publishing. This will also be the default location for PDF’s, DWF’s or any other electronic ‘Print’ files, such as Jpegs. If you use the ‘Plot to file’ option in the plotter dialog, this will be the default location for your PLT file.
#AUTOCAD PLOT STYLE NOT PDF PRINTING CORRECTLY DRIVERS#
You can use the ‘Add or configure Plotters’ button to create Autocad specific drivers for your Printers/Plotters or add plotter drivers to Autocad that aren’t available to your other windows programs (More on that another time). This could mean that standard windows documents get sent to the office A4 Printer, while Autocad documents go to your large format plotter. This allows you to set a different default printer to your standard windows printer. You should see something like the screen shot below (Click for a larger Image).ġ. Default plot settings for new drawings Once you have the ‘Options’ Dialogue open, navigate your way to the ‘ Plot and Publish’ tab. Right click over the command line and choose ‘ Options’ from the short cut menu You can find them in the ‘Options’ Dialog: OK, so there’s a few system settings in AutoCAD that will affect the way your plots turn out.
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