Reposition a drawing for printing

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There may be times when you need to reposition the drawing slightly

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on the sheet before you actually send it to the printer.

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Perhaps when you placed the title block on the sheet,

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you did not get it positioned properly within the printable area.

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You can do this by adjusting the plot offset

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in the plot offset group box,

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change the Y value to negative 0.25 to shift

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the output one quarter inch down on the sheet.

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Then click preview again.

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You can see that the border drawing has been shifted down in relation to the paper,

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close the print preview window.

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If you make this or any other change,

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you can save the changes to the page set up so

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that you do not need to make the same adjustments.

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The next time you print this sheet

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to do this click apply to layout.

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This button becomes available anytime you change any setting in the plot dialogue.

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Finally,

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when you are ready to print, click, OK.

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Remember that for the purpose of this exercise,

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the layout is configured to output to a PDF file.

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So when you click, OK, AUTOCAD prompts you for a file name.

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If you are printing to an actual printer or plotter,

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you probably will not see this.

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Instead, at this point, your drawing would begin printing.