Graphics Programs Reference
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FiGuRE 14.17 The drawing's layouts shown using the Quick View
Layouts tool
2. Place the cursor over the Layout1 thumbnail. It turns blue and two
icons appear within its frame to indicate that any changes will affect
that layout only.
this chapter is
designed so that
you can follow
along even if you
don't have a printer
hooked up to your
computer. the plot-
ter used by this topic
is one that installs
with autoCaD and
creates an electronic
file with a .dwfx
extension. DWF is
a format similar to
PDF that was defined
by autodesk for the
purpose of electroni-
cally storing, shar-
ing, and illustrating
design drawings.
3. Right-click and then click the Page Setup Manager option in the con-
text menu. After a moment, the Page Setup Manager dialog box opens
(see the top of Figure 14.18). This is where you create a new page setup,
or assign an existing one, to be associated with a new or selected layout.
4. Click New to open the New Page Setup dialog box. In the New Page
Setup Name text box, enter DWFX-8H11 and click OK.
5. This opens the Page Setup dialog box, which has Layout1 added to
the title bar (see the bottom of Figure 14.18). The DWFX-8H11 name
appears toward the top of the dialog box in the Page Setup group. In
all, the dialog box has 10 groups containing settings that control how
the drawing will fit on the printed page and what part of the drawing
is printed.
6. If you have not created a page setup previously, None will be selected.
By default the Printer/Plotter Name drop-down list also lists all of the
plotters (printers) installed on your computer.
Select the DWFx ePlot (XPS Compatible).pc3 plotter from the
Printer/Plotter Name drop-down list.
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7. In the Printer/Plotter group, DWFx ePlot (XPS Compatible).pc3 is
the selected plotter. After picking the plotter, select ANSI expand A
(11.00 × 8.50 Inches) (ISO expand A4 (210.00 × 297.00 MM)) from the
drop-down list in the Paper Size group.
Because each printer/plotter will likely have slightly different page
sizes, it's best to select the plotter first and the paper size second.
 
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