Filter available paper sizes

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When you plot a drawing, you essentially make two choices,

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the printer to which you will plot and the

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paper size on which the drawing will be plotted.

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You then make sure that the other plot settings are correct.

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But what do you do if you need to print to an odd size sheet of paper?

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Each printer includes a list of standard available paper sizes.

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In addition to those standard sizes, you can add custom paper sizes.

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For example,

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suppose your company prints its drawings on

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paper that measures 30 inches by 40 inches

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on the 30 by 40 sheet layout.

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You can see that the bordered sheet does not fit on the current sheet of paper

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because the layout is currently based on ad size sheet,

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right? Click the layout tab and select plot

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to open the plot dialogue

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in the printer plotter group box.

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You can see that the layout is already set to use the DWG

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to PDF printer driver that comes with Autocad

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in the paper size group box. When you expand the drop down,

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you can see that there is a wide array of paper sizes in both

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ISO and ANSI standards.

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But there is no 30 inch by 40 inch sheet

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click properties to open the plotter configuration editor

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notice that you are looking at the configuration for the

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printer that had been selected in the plot dialogue.

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So in this case,

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you can see that you are about to modify the

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DWG to PDF dot PC three plotter configuration file.

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The dialogue has three tabs.

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You only need to concern yourself with the device and document settings tab

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in the panel at the top of this tab,

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you see a tree view of the settings for this plotter

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only the settings available for the current plotter are displayed

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in the media node.

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You see the current source and paper size

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and in the media source and size group box.

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If you were to scroll through the size list,

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you would see that the ARC D 24 by 36 size is currently selected.

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If the size list includes sizes you never use.

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You can filter the list

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in the tree

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under user defined paper sizes and calibration

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select filter paper sizes.

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The lower portion of the dialogue changes to the filter paper sizes group box

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in the sizes list,

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you can clear the check box for any paper sizes you do not want to see.

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For example, you could clear all the iso

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paper sizes.