Printing / Plotting

PLOTTING OR PRINTING is where you can print your project.

Draw toolbar:
Draw menu: Plot
Command entry keyboard: CTRL + P

Example:

1. Press Ctrl+P and a window will pop up like figure 1.9.
2. You can now change the parameters of lotting/printing.                                                           
   
    
   
   Figure 1.9
   
   
3. Printer/Plotter
• On this parameter select your printer.
4. Paper Size
• Select the paper size of your choice.
5. Plot Area
• On this parameter there are 4 choices.
• Display (dont use this)
• Limits (dont use this)
• Layout - This is ideal when your drawings are in layout page. 
• Window - when you use window, you will be asked to select the area to be printed. Just click and drag on your drawing and it will mark as printable area.
6. Plot scale
• This is where you will scale your drawing. You can use fit to paper or you can tweak on scale to put the scale you want.
7. Plot offset (origin set to printable area) 
• Just check "Center the plot"
8. Plot style table (pen assignments) 
• Normally this area will be "none" but you can also put to monochrome for black and white.
9. Plot options 
• Don't touch this area.
10. Drawing orientation 
• Just select the layout of your paper, "portrait or landscape".

          
        After you done tweaking the parameters then you can PREVIEW or click OK to print.