Looking for a full-featured CAD program that runs on your Mac? Meet AutoCAD for Mac, the world's leading CAD application that runs natively on Apple computers. In this course, Jim LaPier focuses on the basics of AutoCAD for Mac, including the interface, file management, and toolset. He shows you how to create and modify 2D geometry, work with layers, add dimensions and annotations, and plot your drawings.
The course also touches on the basics of 3D modeling in AutoCAD for Mac. This course was created and produced by Jim LaPier. We're honored to host this content in our library.
Instructor. Jim LaPier is a consultant and designer at IMPACT Designs, LLC. Jim has worked with AutoCAD for 15 years in varying disciplines, including commercial and residential architectural design, mechanical engineering, materials handling, and telecommunications. He is skilled in customization, efficiency, and speed, as well as being adept in information technology. He also worked as a genius at an Apple Retail Store, and registered as a certified Apple technician. Jim combines paper and pencil drafting knowledge with his love of cutting edge technology, both Mac and PC-based.
You want to know how to correctly set Page Setup and other plot settings in AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD LT for Mac. In the file menu there are two main commands for plotting the dwg: Page Setup Manager Print With the first Page Setup Manager command, you can create one or more Page Setup and set your preferences for plotting. The best method is none other than to create a Virtual Plotter, with a virtual plotter you can plot to a virtual PostScript files from AutoCAD and import the EPS files into Photoshop. This requires few setup configurations to the PostScript plotter on your computer.
By: Jim LaPier course. 18m. 129 viewers. Course Transcript Now that we have our layouts created, our text and dimensions in place, it's time to plot our drawing. AutoCAD has quite a few tools to help us automate printing, but most start with a good page setup. A page setup is created for each layout and stores things like default plotter, page size, scale, and plot styles. When on a layout, a visor should be visible here, which allows us to edit the page setup for that layout.
Or we can go to the File menu and click Edit Page Setups to create Page Setups we can assign to all of our layouts. We'll click here, and make sure your dialog box is expanded to show you all of your options.
We can select the printer here and page sizes here. If you're working from home or off site, and will be printing your final set on a full size plotter later, you can create custom page sizes to format your page for your paper that your home printer may not be able to handle. I'll click manage custom sizes, and create one for 24 by 36, 11 by 17, or any other size I. Practice while you learn with exercise files.
Yes Specifies detailed page settings for the Model layout or layout you are plotting. Enter a layout name or ?: Specify the name of the layout tab you want to plot Enter an output device name or ?: Specify the name of the output device to which you want to plot the Model tab or layout tab you selected If you enter a new device name without an extension, the program assumes that the device is a PC3 file (Autodesk ® HDI plotter configuration file). If no PC3 file is found, the program searches for a Windows system printer with that device name. Enter paper size or ?: Specify the paper size to use for the plot or enter? To view the actual list of paper sizes defined for the plotter driver You must specify a paper size exactly as it is defined by the plotter driver.
Enter paper units Inches/Millimeters: The Enter Paper Units prompt is not displayed if you are plotting a raster image, such as a BMP or TIFF file, because the size of the plot is assumed to be in pixels. Enter drawing orientation Portrait/Landscape: Portrait Orients and plots the drawing so that the short edge of the paper represents the top of the page. Landscape Orients and plots the drawing so that the long edge of the paper represents the top of the page. Plot upside down Yes/No: Orients and plots the drawing upside down.
Enter plot area Display/Extents/Limits/Layout/View/Window. Display Plots the view in the current viewport on the Model layout or the current view in the layout, depending on which tab you select to plot. Extents Plots all of the objects in the current viewport, except objects on frozen layers.
From a layout, plots all the geometry in paper space. The drawing may be regenerated to recalculate the extents before plotting.
Limits Plots the drawing area defined by the grid limits. Available only when the Model tab is selected. Layout Plots everything within the printable area of the specified paper size, with the origin calculated from 0,0 in the layout. Available only when a layout tab is selected. View Plots a view saved previously with the command. You can select a named view from the list provided. If there are no saved views in the drawing, this option is unavailable.
Window Plots any portion of the drawing you specify. This option prompts you to specify the corners of the window. Enter lower left corner of window: Specify a point Enter upper right corner of window: Specify a point Enter plot scale (Plotted Inches = Drawing Units) or Fit: Specify the scale of the plot Plotted Inches = Drawing Units Calculates the plot scale based on the inches or millimeters to drawing units that you specify. You can also enter a real number as a fraction (for example, you can enter 1=2 or.5). Fit Calculates the scale to fit the area on the sheet of paper.
The default scale setting is 1:1 when you are plotting a layout, unless you modified and saved the setting. The default setting is Fit when plotting a Model tab. Enter plot offset (x, y) or Center: Specify the plot offset in either the X or Y direction, or enter c to center the plot on the paper Plot with plot styles Yes/No: Specify whether to plot using the plot styles applied to objects and defined in the plot style table If you specify Yes to plot with plot styles, the following prompt is displayed: Enter plot style table name or ? (enter.
For none): Enter a plot style table name,? To view plot style tables,. (period) for none All style definitions with different property characteristics are stored in the current plot style table and can be attached to the geometry. This setting replaces pen mapping in earlier releases of the program. Plot with lineweights Yes/No: Scale lineweights with plot scale Yes/No. As Displayed Specifies that a model space view is plotted the same way it is displayed. Wireframe Specifies that a model space view is plotted in wireframe regardless of display.
Hidden Specifies that a model space view is plotted with hidden lines removed regardless of display. Write the plot to a file Yes/No: Enter y if you want to write the plotted drawing to a file, or press Enter to plot to an output device If you specify Yes, the following prompt is displayed: Enter file name:: Enter a file name Save changes to page setup? Or set shade plot quality? Yes/No/Quality: If you enter y, the current settings in the Page Setup dialog box are saved. If you enter q, you are prompted for the shaded plotting quality and are given the option of providing a custom dpi. Then you are prompted to save the page setup with the added quality settings.
Enter shade plot quality Draft/Preview/Normal/pResentation/Maximum/Custom: Enter c if you want to specify a dpi, or to use a preset dpi, specify a different quality option Enter custom dpi: Save changes to page setup Yes/No?: Plot paper space first Yes/No: Paper space geometry is usually plotted before model space geometry. If you enter n, the model space geometry is plotted first, and paper space geometry is plotted last. This option is available only if you are plotting from a layout tab. Hide paperspace objects? Yes/No: Specifies whether the Hide operation applies to objects in the paper space viewport. This option is available only from a layout tab. Proceed with plot Yes/No.