Page Setup, Printing and Plotting in AutoCAD

Name: Page Setup, Printing and Plotting in AutoCAD
Author: Patrick Porter

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Hello, in this chapter, we are going to begin working with page setups, printing, and plotting in AutoCAD. And in this particular lesson, we're going to shed some light on what is the difference between model space, paper space, and layouts. So before we begin, I'd like for you to make sure that you have opened up the model space, paper space, and layouts drawing, as I have shown on my screen. And once you have that open, let's go ahead and follow along. Now, AutoCAD has primarily two separate environments that you'll be working in, model space and paper space. Model space is where you'll be doing all of your drawing, your modeling. Think of it as that. As you see here on my screen, this is my model. I have a couple of views on my screen that represent the model that I created. You can see down here at the bottom of your screen, we are in the Model tab. Let's go ahead and click on the Layout tab. And now we are in AutoCAD's second environment, which is called paper space. You can see that on your status bar. I'm in paper space now. I'm gonna switch it back to model, and you show it's in model space. I'm gonna go back to the layout, and now I'm in paper. So paper space can be thought of where you put all of your annotations, your title blocks, your text, dimensions, as you have here on my screen. A layout is a piece of paper. Think of it as that. So all of your layouts, and you can have multiple layouts. By just hitting the plus button here, you can create multiple layouts. All of these can be thought of as individual sheets of paper. Another way to alternate between model space and paper space is to come over to your Drawing tab up here on the top, and here you see the different layouts that you have in your drawing, as well as your model space. So hover your mouse over the drawing, and as you hover over the different views, your screen will change. So let's go back to the Model tab, and there you have it. You can only have one model space in your drawing, but you can have multiple paper spaces or layouts. Thanks for watching. Join me in the next lesson where we will discuss page setups and configuration.

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Course Description

This chapter will introduce you to setting up your drawing page setups, printing, and plotting in AutoCAD. It will also discuss the differences between model space, paper space and layouts. Additionally, you’ll learn how to create layouts and viewports, and then how to set those viewport scales. And lastly, you will finish the chapter with how to configure your drawings for printing from AutoCAD.

What You'll Learn

Distinguish between model space, paper space, and layouts in AutoCAD
Configure drawing page setups and prepare pages for printing
Create layouts and viewports and set their viewport scales
Apply annotative scaling within layout viewports
Configure and print or plot drawings from AutoCAD

Key Takeaways

This chapter introduces setting up drawing page setups, printing, and plotting in AutoCAD.
It explains the differences between model space, paper space, and layouts.
It covers creating layouts and viewports and setting viewport scales.
It concludes with configuring drawings for printing from AutoCAD.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this AutoCAD chapter cover?

It covers setting up drawing page setups, printing, and plotting in AutoCAD, including the differences between model space, paper space, and layouts, how to create layouts and viewports, how to set viewport scales, and how to configure drawings for printing.

What is the difference between model space and paper space in this course?

The chapter discusses the differences between model space, paper space, and layouts as part of preparing drawings for printing and plotting.

Will I learn how to set viewport scales?

Yes. The chapter teaches how to create layouts and viewports and then how to set those viewport scales, and it covers annotative scaling.

What skills does this course relate to?

It relates to AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD DXF, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Graphing, and Scale Drawings.