plot in multiple pages

[skiter]

hello, i need to plot a 1:1 draw in A4 paper, but the drawing is going to use more then one sheet. is there any "automatic" way to do that? (autocad automatically "calculate" how many sheet is going to need and plot-it)

or do i have to manually plot one part at time? (mark on the drawing the size of the paper and then zooming it in the viewport)

i'm using autocad 2006, and i'm quite noob wen it comes to plot using the viewports. =D

ps: i'm from Brazil, sorry about any grammatical error.

[StykFacE]

are you wanting to plot multiple Files? or multiple Layouts? if you have for instance 10 Layout tabs, just go to File -> Publish to plot them all at once. or, for example, if you have 10 seperate *.DWG files, then type SSM at the command line to bring up the Sheet Set Manager, from there you can bring all the files into here, then set them up to plot all at once. Hope this helps.

[skiter]

no, it's a single drawing.

it's like having a baseball-bat drawed, and it has like 1400mm of size. and i need to plot-it in 1:1 scale, so it's going to need to print in 5 sheets of A4, then i'll glue or tape (or something) the sheets together. to use the printed baseball-bat as lead to cut the wood or something.

do i have to manually plot each part?

[Cad64]

I think you're going to have to plot each viewport, one at a time using the Window option in your plot dialog. It shouldn't take more than a minute to send all 5 to the printer. Now if you had 50 viewports, that would be a different story.

[New2CADmike]

Skiter..I think they call it .tileing... I have a program called quickcad (made by autodesk)..no longer though..and if you had a full scale item drawn that was 12 feet long by 4 feet wide,you could print that using letter size paper by taping all the tiles(sheets) together..It even made little tick marks in the corners of the sheets to line up the drawing..It might be 20 sheets by 15 sheets wide but it worked great..I guess that autodesk must think that if you can afford a multi thousand dollar program such as Acad 2007 or simular than you must be able to buy a wide scale printer..Quick cad was a 60 dollar program ..I have Acad 2000 but no decent printer..What I do if I need something large printed is take the file down to fedex-kinkos and with their printers they can do it for you..Mike

[skiter]

thanks Mike, that's exactly what i need. to bad to know autocad don't have something like this. (tileing)
i'll try to make a search to see if i can find anything that i can put to use.
in the mean time i'll try to do-it manually, but i'm getting myself seriously beaten by the printable area. lol