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Plotting and previewing your design

Plotting and previewing your design - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: 3D Modeling for Mechanical Designs

Plotting and previewing your design

- We're staying in our metal plate publishing.dwg file, and I'm in the metal plate GA and details layouts tab. Now what we're going to have a little look at now is previewing our plotting. Now you saw that in the previous video. I did a little preview of our page setup. Now our page setups are already in place. So ideally all I want to do now is preview. I don't want to keep going into the page setup, and then having to preview it there. Now there's ways, and means of doing this, that are fairly quick, and easy, but you just want to make sure, that you do a preview before you plot. Always, always, always preview everything. Really, really important that you do that. Now what we're going to take a look at, is the metal plate GA, and details layout tab. And I'm in the output tab on the ribbon. And in the plot panel there's a preview button. Quick and easy, click on preview, and that will preview your layout tab, to the…

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