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Create a named page setup to print sheets in a sheet set.
Type:
Tutorial
Length:
3 min.
Tutorial resources
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Transcript
00:04
To create named page setups, right?
00:07
Click anywhere in the sheet list and choose publish
00:11
manage page setups
00:13
to open the page setup manager dialogue.
00:17
Here you can see a list of the existing named page setups.
00:22
Click new
00:25
in the new page setup dialogue
00:28
in the new page setup name field,
00:31
enter a name for the new page set up.
00:35
In this case name, this new setup letter dash size handout
00:45
in the start with list, choose none
00:49
and then click. OK.
00:52
The program opens the page set up dialogue.
00:56
Here you will specify the device and other page setup options.
01:01
For example to print to your laser printer
01:04
in the printer, plotter group box,
01:06
you would expand the name drop down and select your laser printer.
01:11
In this case for demonstration purposes,
01:14
choose one of the PDF output options
01:20
in the paper size group box. Choose NC A
01:29
in the plot area group box, expand the what to plot drop down and choose extents
01:37
in the plot scale group box. Choose fit to paper
01:42
again.
01:42
When creating your own page setups,
01:45
you would specify the device and other
01:47
page setup options appropriate for your particular situation
01:52
when everything is set properly. Click OK,
01:56
you are returned back to the page setup manager.
01:60
You can repeat these steps to create another new page setup.
02:04
When you are finished creating page setups,
02:07
click close to close the page setup manager
02:13
note that each named page setup is automatically written to the template file.
02:18
This is one of the few sheet set functions that might write information
02:23
to an existing file without you knowing it.
02:26
The only other time this happens is when the
02:28
program writes hints to the drawings in a sheet set
02:32
so that they know that they belong to a particular sheet set.
Video transcript
00:04
To create named page setups, right?
00:07
Click anywhere in the sheet list and choose publish
00:11
manage page setups
00:13
to open the page setup manager dialogue.
00:17
Here you can see a list of the existing named page setups.
00:22
Click new
00:25
in the new page setup dialogue
00:28
in the new page setup name field,
00:31
enter a name for the new page set up.
00:35
In this case name, this new setup letter dash size handout
00:45
in the start with list, choose none
00:49
and then click. OK.
00:52
The program opens the page set up dialogue.
00:56
Here you will specify the device and other page setup options.
01:01
For example to print to your laser printer
01:04
in the printer, plotter group box,
01:06
you would expand the name drop down and select your laser printer.
01:11
In this case for demonstration purposes,
01:14
choose one of the PDF output options
01:20
in the paper size group box. Choose NC A
01:29
in the plot area group box, expand the what to plot drop down and choose extents
01:37
in the plot scale group box. Choose fit to paper
01:42
again.
01:42
When creating your own page setups,
01:45
you would specify the device and other
01:47
page setup options appropriate for your particular situation
01:52
when everything is set properly. Click OK,
01:56
you are returned back to the page setup manager.
01:60
You can repeat these steps to create another new page setup.
02:04
When you are finished creating page setups,
02:07
click close to close the page setup manager
02:13
note that each named page setup is automatically written to the template file.
02:18
This is one of the few sheet set functions that might write information
02:23
to an existing file without you knowing it.
02:26
The only other time this happens is when the
02:28
program writes hints to the drawings in a sheet set
02:32
so that they know that they belong to a particular sheet set.
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