- [Narrator] Once again,
we're staying in our design intent.DWT file,
and you can see there
that we've got our annotative scaling working
in our view port in our ISO A3 landscape tab.
We've got our dimensions table in the other view port,
and it's all sitting nicely in our title block.
So we're now in a position
where we can utilize our page setup,
that we set up previously to plot our drawing.
Now, I'm not gonna bore you by just sitting there waiting
for a PDF to actually plot on the computer,
I just want to show you the workflow
and the process to do this.
Now, the reason I want to do this,
is I want to show you the output tab
on the ribbon here like so.
Because what we can do,
is we can go here to plots,
we can also batch plot if we want to,
we can preview our plot,
we can go into our Page Setup Manager and so on.
We can also override existing page setups
to export to DWF and PDF as well.
And I just wanna go through these with you.
But we've already got a page setup in place.
So if I click on plot now,
in the output tab on the ribbon,
it'll say Oh you've got multiple drawings or layouts open.
I have, I've got ISO A3 landscape ISO A3 details.
Now ISO A3 details is empty,
it's just a title block at the moment.
So I'm gonna continue to plot
to a single sheet in this case.
Notice it adopts the page setup,
we set up the ISO A3 landscape PDF.
Now I'm not going to plot
but what I am going to do is preview.
So I click on Preview,
and that's what I'm going to get.
So I'm now in the preview of the plot,
you'll notice the view ports don't plot
because we set them not to,
in the Layer Properties Manager
but we've got our nice little objects,
our dimensions and our dimensions table.
So we've got a nice simple AutoCAD drawing,
and you can see there that if I now hit the plot button,
and that will go out to a PDF,
and actually look like that.
That's how quick and easy it is.
And I can now just right click an exit the preview,
and it'll take me back to the dialog box,
if I need to change any settings.
I'm going to click on Cancel in this case.
Now it prompted you about batch plotting.
If I batch plot,
what it will do is it'll open up the publish dialog box
and I can batch plot any number of layout tabs,
and also the model tab
and save those settings a bit like a page setup
that we set up previously.
Now I'm not gonna go into this in any detail,
but you can see that all
of it can be set up any which way you want.
You hit the Publish Button,
and off it goes and it publishes all
of the different tabs you might have
in your DWT file instead of doing them one by one.
And you can set all the settings in here,
and you can save all of those settings
as what is called a sheet list file.
So if I click on Save here,
it'll save it as a DST file.
Now, what you may find is when you try to do this,
it may say to you hang on a minute,
one or more of the drawings have unsaved changes,
just close that and cancel your publish,
and you'll notice,
do you want to save the current list of sheets?
No, I don't.
But here see the little asterisk on the file tab,
that's telling you
that you haven't saved the drawing recently.
That asterisk means that there's changes to the drawing
that haven't been saved.
So just make sure that you save the changes
and then go back to batch block,
set everything up,
save your DST file,
and then those properties
are set whenever you need to do a batch plot again.
So I click on cancel like so.
Do I want to save that list of sheets?
No, I don't.
Now the other thing you can do
is you can export to DWF and PDF.
And what I like about this
is if I was gonna export out to say a DWF,
it opens up a dialog box so I can save the documents
wherever I want them to go,
but I can override any page setup settings here,
you'll notice and save it out as a DWF.
I can also do that to a PDF like so same dialog box,
but it's going out to a PDF with PDF settings.
There's the presets in the page setup,
but I can override that if I want to.
So you have this export panel,
which allows you to override
your existing Page Setup settings as well.
So when you're plotting your drawing,
there's lots of different ways and tools
to allow you to communicate that design intent as well.
So you can use your page setup,
how you set it up and how you want it to plot
and you can preview that and you can hit the Plot Button.
You can publish by using Batch Plot
and publish as many layout tabs even
the model tab if you wish.
And then if you need to override it,
go to the export panel in the output tab in the ribbon.
So we've got to a point now
with this learning AutoCAD course,
where you've got to a point
where you are communicating your design intent
from a very simple AutoCAD drawing.