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LAYOUT, PLOT AND PUBLISH DRAWINGS
and Footer text box.
13.2.2.
Plot settings
When you create a drawing, you do most of your work on the Model tab. At any time you
can print your drawing to see how it looks on paper. It‘s easy to startup printing, and then
later create layouts and custom print settings to enhance your printed output.
To start printing
1 Choose File > Plot.
2 Click OK.
Standard toolbar
Command line PLOT
There are many options that you can set before printing, such as the scale of the drawing,
print area, print style tables, and more.
Before you print, you can set up many aspects of printing:
Select and configure plotting device.
Specify paper size and orientation.
Specify size of the paper used for plotting, including which portion of a drawing to print
and the origin of the print area.
Choose whether to print and scale lineweights.
Choose whether to implement print style tables to control colors, pen widths, line types,
and lineweights.
Set Paper Size
The paper size here refers to the size of the drawing, needs to be set before plotting
regardless of which working space you select. You can assign the paper type from pull
down list of the Paper text box. The available paper types provided in the pull down list are
decided by current configuration. If you want to setup paper size, you should configure
plotters first, all the available plotters are both system plotters of Windows configured and
non-system driven.
You can specify a printer or plotter to be used when printing any drawing. You can print
your drawing on any printer or plotter that is compatible with Windows, including raster
printers.
To select a printer or plotter
1 Choose File > Plot.
2 From the Printer Name list, select a printer or plotter, and then click OK.
Standard toolbar
Command line PLOT
Default paper size used for creating new layouts through editing PC5 files associative to
plotters can be assigned to the paper. With this technique, you can assign different paper
size for Windows and ZWCAD separately.
If you set a system variable PAPERUPDATE to 1, prompts display if the selected plotter
doesn‘t support the paper size. So that the paper size will be updated automatically to
default paper size that plotters provide.
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