Printing an AutoCAD Drawing - AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required - page 820

This drawback is one of the main reasons many in industry choose to avoid view-
port overrides whenever possible and manage their layers from model space. With
the size of your My Cabin project, re-creating these viewport overrides shouldn't
be too difficult. To summarize, you'll need to re-create the following viewport
overrides.
A-101 Layout VP Freeze: A-FLOR-PATT and A-ANNO-TABL from the 14A-FPLAY1
reference.
A-102 Layout VP Freeze: A-GRID, A-ANNO-TABL, and A-ANNO-DIMS from the
14A-FPLAY1 reference.
A-103 Layout VP Freeze: A-FLOR-PATT and A-ANNO-DIMS from the 14A-FPLAY1
reference.
NOTE Because all the layers are managed from model space in the
A-200.dwg and C-101.dwg sheet files, there's no need to re-create the view-
port overrides in those drawings.
Plotting a Single Layout
With the lineweights properly assigned, you're now ready to begin plotting the
layouts that make up your plan set. The rest of this chapter will focus on the mul-
tiple ways of plotting layouts from AutoCAD. Each method has its own advantages
and disadvantages, and the method you ultimately choose will likely change based
on the specific task at hand. To begin our discussion, you'll first look at plotting a
single layout.
To summarize, when a layout has been set up properly and is active, you print
at a scale of 1:1. The elements of the drawing on the layout are then printed at
actual size, and the model space portion of the drawing is printed at the scale to
which the viewport has been set. Follow these steps:
1. With A-100.dwg open, switch to the A-101 layout using the Quick View
Layouts tool. For a review of layouts and viewports, see Chapter 14.
Your layout should look like Figure 15.30.
2. Make sure you are in paper space to start the PLOT command.
3. You're using the DWFX-8H11 page setup; verify the printer, paper size,
and orientation as before.
4. Make sure that in the Plot Area group, the current choice displayed in
the What To Plot drop-down list is Layout instead of Limits.