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→ Plotting—AutoCAD Publish Command + BEST PRACTICES & TUTORIALS

Publish is a tool in AutoCAD used to batch print multiple drawings to PDF or to a specified printer/plotter. You can have the Publish command run in the background while you continue working in AutoCAD or you can have it run in the foreground for a faster print time.

5) When selecting drawings to print you should select Include: Layout and Check Prefix sheet title with file name.

1) On the command line, enter “ PUBLISHCOLLATE ” and make sure this is set to 0 . 2) Open the Publish dialog window by using one of the following methods: a) Select Publish under the Appli- cation Menu (or File pull- down menu) b) Enter “PUBLISH” on the command line 3) The Publish window should open up and look like this:

(Note: You do have the option to include Model Space & Layout to be added to your publish list) 6) Once you have added all the sheets you wish to plot to the sheet list, you can ar- range them in order by either dragging them or using the “Move Sheet Up” or “Move Sheet Down” buttons.

4) The current drawing(s) you have open will show up in the sheet list. Add more sheets to the sheet list or re- move sheets from the sheet list using the “Add Sheets” or “Remove Sheets” but- tons.

7) Next you need to change the page set up on all. This is important because the page setups in each individual sheet might have been altered and to ensure that all pages will plot correctly, it is best to im- port the correct page set. 8) Select all sheets (select first sheet hold sheet and select last sheet or Ctrl-A) so that all sheets become highlighted grey.

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