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Final look at the Plot and Publish Tab.
Specify Plot Offset Relative To
Specifies whether the offset of the plot area is from the lower-left corner of the printable area or from the edge of the paper (PLOTOFFSET system variable). Depending on your plotter you may have to fiddle with these setting.
Printable Area
Specifies that the plot offset [...]
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Next we move to General Plot Options on the Plot Publish Tab.
The first option is to either leave the Paper Space size as set int he drawing or to set it to the plotter sizes. I keep it as the Drawing defines it. I may use the plot device if I get files from others. [...]
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The Plotting and Publishing Tab comes next. The AutoCAD 2010 Dialog box for this tab is exactly the same so I am now calling this series the 2011 Options
Now we move into the area of Plotting and Publishing.
Here you can set the default settings for new files, Plot to file settings, Auto Publish and Background [...]
First we come to the Default plot setting for new drawings.
You can set the default output device from the drop down list of available devices. This really only effects drawing that have not been opened or saved in 2000 format and beyond. This dialog will find any PCS files or setups found on your search [...]
Background processing is how AutoCAD allows you to get back to work when you send off a plot. Without this setting, you may tie up your machine while it cranks away at your processing.
Turn both of these on.
There are two options here:
Plotting - setting this one to on by checking the box will enable background [...]
Closing out the left side of this dialog box brings us to Auto Publishing…
Checking the Automatic Publish radio button will publish DWF or DWFx or PDF files upon your selected action. So you can set AutoCAD to create DWF or PDF files when you save or close a file.
This may be overkill for most of [...]
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When you create a new User Coordinate System (UCS) in AutoCAD, by default, your viewpoint doesn’t change. Here I used the 3 (3 point) option of the UCS command to create a new UCS.
Create a new UCS with the 3 point option
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The Ribbon Bar was introduced in Autodesk Inventor 201o. In this article, we shall see how to hide the commands that we don’t use from the Panel Bar of Autodesk Inventor 2011.
Objective: Hide the Text Command from Draw Panel of Sketch (Tab) Ribbon Bar
Open the Sketch Tab and move to Text Command,
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