Create a page setup with configured printer settings

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Although you could create a page set up from within the plot dialogue.

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Logically, it makes more sense to do this from the context of the layout.

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Click cancel to close the plot dialogue

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then

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right click the furniture plan layout, tab and select page setup manager

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to open the page setup manager dialogue.

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In the page setups group box,

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you can see that there is currently no page setup and the list

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shows only a default page set up for the furniture plan layout.

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In the selected page set up details group box.

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The information refers to the default system printer

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that is probably not the device you want to print to

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in the page setups list

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asterisk furniture plan, asterisk is already selected,

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click modify

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to open the page setup dialogue for the furniture plan layout.

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This dialogue looks very similar to the plot dialogue except that

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the tools here are only used to configure the plotter.

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The first thing you need to do is select the

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printer or plotter you want to use to print this sheet

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in the printer plotter group box, expand the name drop down.

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You can select any device in this list.

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The list you see on your computer will likely be different from the list you see here

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because your list will include your specific local and network printers.

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One device that will be common to the list you see

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here is the DWG to PDF printer that comes with AUTOCAD,

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select DWG to PDF dot PC three.

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Once you have selected the printer,

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the next thing you need to do is to choose the paper size

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in the paper size group box, expand the drop down and choose the desired paper size.

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Again, if you were to select a different printer,

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the available paper sizes would likely be different than the ones you see here.

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For this example, choose NC A

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in the printer plotter group box. You can see a preview of the paper

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when you move the cursor over this preview,

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you see a tool tip which tells you that although

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the physical paper size is 8.5 by 11 inches,

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the printable area is only 11.11 by 9.66 inches.

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So even though you selected an 8.5 by 11 sheet of paper,

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you cannot print all the way to the edge of the paper.

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It is important that you understand the difference

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between the paper size and the printable area.

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Each printer or plotter will have a different printable area.

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When you add a border and title block to a drawing,

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you will need to make sure that it fits within the printable area.

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You can use tools in the other areas of the dialogue to set the plot area,

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plot scale plot options and drawing orientation.

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While you may need to adjust these settings. When printing from model space.

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When printing a layout, you may not need to make any changes.

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For example,

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in the plot area group box,

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you can expand the what to plot drop down

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to choose whether you'll be plotting the current display,

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the drawing extents a layout or a rectangular window area that you select

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since this is a page set up for a layout. However,

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you will typically leave this set to layout.

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Similarly,

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when plotting from model space in the plot scale group box,

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you would likely need to expand the scale drop down and select the proper scale

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so that the objects in the drawing will fit onto the sheet of paper.

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But again, since this is a page set up for a layout,

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you will typically leave this set to a scale of 1 to 1.

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Once you have selected the printer and paper size,

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click OK

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to close the page set up dialogue

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in the page setup manager, dialogue.

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In the selected page setup details group box, the device name, plotter,

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plot size and other information now matches

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the page setup information you specified.

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Click close to close the page set up manager.

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The printer is now assigned to that layout

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and will be saved in the drawing file.

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So that when you later print the layout,

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it will be sent to the printer you selected.