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Plotting a project to PDF in ACADe

When it comes to plotting a project to PDF in ACADe, there is a bug when you use the DWG to PDF.pc3. The bug is that it saves the drawing to “_YES.pdf” for all of them, in other word the last plot wins.

Now if we want to print an ACADe project to PDF, we must use publish in AutoCAD. Here are some steps to get the project plotted to PDF. (These step are for drawing on the model tab)

1. Create an empty drawing, to create a layout template.
2. Right click on the model and select page setup manager.
3. In page setup manager, create a new page setup and call it PDF

4. In the page setup select DWG to PDF (Section 1 below)
5. Choose your paper size (Section 2 below)
6. Choose your pen style and anything else that you need. (Section 3 below)
7. Click OK

8. Start Publish. (under the drop down menu files)

9. Uncheck the layout tab, under “Include when adding sheets”.
10. Add all your drawing to this publish
11. Highlight all the drawing and select import in the Page setup/3D DWF
12. Find the drawing that you saved with the PDF page setup and import it

13. Select the publish option
14. Relocate the location of where you want the PDF to be saved
15. Select OK

16. Click Publish

F.Y.I. These steps can be used in regular AutoCAD

PDF it

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Traveling through Viewport

Here is a subject that has been hitting me a lot lately. I know I haven’t updated this website in a while and I must say time is some thing that is precious and not enough of. Since this website is not free I have the obligation to find time. Well here is an easy one coming up. Lately Viewport inside of Viewport is becoming big for some reason but then everybody forgets on how to access one or the other. I though that I’d give you the forgotten secret.

This might have been written in the pass but I’d thought it’s time for the pass to come back, it doesn’t hurt right.

To move between Viewport is a lot easier then we think, all you need to do is activate a Viewport and select Ctrl-R. That’s it Ctrl-R travel between Viewport. It also works in the model view.

Bon Voyage

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