plotting

Hi all!

I´m just beginner, so my question is maybe silly, but.. I´m drawing groundplan of a flat, in real size (12,5m x 7,5m). If i want to print it on A4, is it complicated process? To change scale (1:50), center it to the paper etc...?

I cant try it coz i dont have printer here with me.

Second Q is: If i want to print it somewhere else, on comp without autocad, what should i do? I´m afraid, if i convert it for example to jpg (even if i know how) that it would not finally fit good on paper. On A4.

Can you help me?

Thx

Hello and welcome!

No, it's not that hard:

Select the layout tab and enter PAGESETUP, there you can select your paper size (A4) and select center.

Then make a viewport in the layout (menu view), make it fit to the paper or slightly smaller.

When that is done you should see your drawing in the viewport, now to adjust the scale click the viewport and select your desired scale (bottom right).

For printing it out on other computers i think it's best to make a pdf of your drawing, you can do this by selecting a pdf writer instead of your printer in autocad.

Thank you!

The only problem i have now is that if i choose "pdf printer", it saves it as .pc3 file, which i cannot open, i´t just kinf of info file or how to say it..

A .pc3 file is a plotter configuration file, not sure why it would save that instead of .pdf?

Is the pdf printer correctly installed?

hmmm that´s the queation:) the fact is that everything would be saved as pc3 file, whether it is option "publish to web jpg" "publish to web png" "dwg to pdf" and more

You could print out to the Microsoft XPS Document writer, if your current printer supports it.

hmmm that´s the queation:) the fact is that everything would be saved as pc3 file, whether it is option "publish to web jpg" "publish to web png" "dwg to pdf" and more

When you select the printer, do you get up a window that says something like "Do you want to save this as a .pc3 file?" ? If you do, that is not the actual drawing.

Like Tommy said, the pc3 file is just a printer config file - to save settings on the printer.

You can click Yes or NO, but either way you should come back to the Plot-dialogue-box and then you can hit the Plot-button and get your PDF.