How to plot a drawing in autocad into a pdf file

Setting Up The Paper Measurements On The Plan

First thing to do in setting the desired measurements on the plan is to identify the paper size to be used in printing the plan.In this tutorial i will use a 508mmx762mm paper size for the paper size that will be use for printing.In setting the dimensions on the plan we should take it it seriously about the plan size on the drawing which is set to default of 1:1 which is the actual scale of the plan in reality.So in putting the dimensions for the plan we will input a dimension of 50800mmx76200mm instead.

Note:I am using a metric system throughout this tutorial

Setting up the the Plan Measurement of the Paper in Metric System

Plotting Configurations

After setting the desired plan size, we are now ready to configure the plotting.

STEPS:

• Click the plot icon located at the left top most of the screen. The plot icon looks like a printer.
• After clicking it, a pop up box will appear showing the configuration setup that we will be using for the plotting.

• Under the printer/plotter menu select the DWG to PDF.pc3 format
• Click on the properties tab beside the DWG to PDF.pc3 format.Like the one on the picture below.
• After clicking on the properties tab, a new pop up window will appear.

• Click the custom paper size under the drop down list of user defined paper sizes and callibration
• You will see a box below where you can see the Add, Delete and edit buttons.
• Click the Add button and a new pop up window will appear

• Select the Start from the scratch then click next
• Now enter the desired dimensions of your paper size
• Set all your margins to zero to print out exactly the plan size that we have done on the first part.Setting it to zero will eventually print out all the area of the plan.
• Then set the paper name then its all set up.
• Screenshots below will guide you on this process.

• No that we are done making a custom paper size, select it and press ok
• Under the Plot Area click on the drop down box and it will show a drop down list, just click on the window.
• When you select the window, the plan will show up.
• Now select the borders of the plan
• Plot Scale must be check into Fit to paper so that the scale will be a exact 1:100 units
• Then press OK.

Time to Check the Result

Alright were almost done! Now lets check the result.I ill open it with a pdf viewer.And check the size.The Paper size is 20x30 inches which means that we are correct because if we convert it to metric system it will be 508x762mm.

Thanks for reading this post.More Tutorials to come.

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