#WORKING FROM HOME AUTOCAD PRINTING HOW TO#

Select the Printer and Paper Size, and check that the 'Plot scale' units are set to 1:1:.In the Page Setup Manager window select *Layout1* and then 'Modify'.Do this by right clicking on the 'Layout1' tab and select 'Page Setup Manager' from the popup menu. Change the paper size to the one you want to print.Do this by clicking once on the black box that highlights the extents of the Viewport (it will change to blue to indicate that it is selected), then press delete.

On the layout page, delete the existing Viewport to give you a blank page.In the main AutoCAD map window select the 'Layout1' tab at the bottom left.Creating a print file at a specified scale This will have changed the drawing from metres to millimetres. You may need to press the zoom extents button to view the data. AutoCAD will ask 'SCALE Specify scale factor or ', type '1000' (without the quotes) and press enter.AutoCAD will ask 'SCALE Specify base point:', type '0,0' (without the quotes) and press enter.Type 'scale' in to the command bar and press enter.Press Ctrl + A on your keyboard to select all elements in the drawing.However, printing in AutoCAD is based on ISO paper sizes using millimetres so in order to print at a specific scale you need to convert the model from metres to millimetres. Press the OK button to close the window.Д¬hange the model file from metres to millimetresДЄutoCAD now knows that each unit in the map is 1 metre in the model.Using the dropdown in the 'Insertion Scale' section select 'Meters' if not currently set.Type 'units' in to the command bar and press enter, the Drawing Units window appears:.Open the DWG file downloaded from Digimap in AutoCAD.

#WORKING FROM HOME AUTOCAD PRINTING HOW TO#

The instructions below explain how to re-scale a drawing from metres to millimetres. AutoCAD typically deals in millimetres, but Ordnance Survey data available in Digimap is provided in metres.

Working from home autocad printing