Printing an AutoCAD Drawing - AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required - page 788

FiGuRE 15.4 The drawing printed to Extents
2. Click the Quick Views Layout button in the status bar to switch to
model space. Plotting to Limits is not available in a layout.
3. Zoom into the floor plan, start the PLOT command again, and assign the
same DWFx plotter. With the plotter selected, choose Limits from
the What To Plot drop-down list. In the Plot Scale section, click the
Fit To Paper option—plotting at 1:1 in model space would result in
only a miniscule portion of the vast drawing area actually getting
plotted. When you print to Limits, AutoCAD prints only what lies
within the limits, and it pushes what's within the limits to the cor-
ner that is the origin of the print.
4. Click the right-facing arrow in the lower-right corner, and make sure
Landscape is selected in the Drawing Orientation group. Then click the
Preview button in the lower-left corner (see Figure 15.5). This print
won't work here because the limits don't cover the entire drawing, and
the title block has already been moved into paper space. Printing to
Limits can be a good tool for setting up a print, but you'll usually reset
the limits from their original defining coordinates to new ones for the
actual print.
5. Right-click, and choose Exit from the context menu to exit the preview.