AutoCAD 2005: One Step at a Time, Part III
This step-by-step text meets the updated requirements of AutoCAD 2005 and will help you get acquainted with plotting, the eTransmit tool, drawing/sheet sets, working with Xrefs, and more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS AutoCAD 2005: One Step at a Time, Part III
Lesson 21: Sharing Your Work with Others
Overview
Goods which are not shared are not goods.
Vernando de Rojas, La Celestina , Act 1
Sharing. This simple word might carry different meanings for different people. Indeed, it might mean something different for the same person depending on that person's circumstances.
Certainly, you must share the results of your labor at least if you want to get paid for it and for this purpose, AutoCAD provides the tried-and-true Plot command as well as the eTransmit tools and the new Publish command.
We'll start with the Plot command and explore the ways AutoCAD has provided for you to share the work and then share the fruit.
Let's begin.
| Note | A General Note to Students and Instructors: Many instructors prefer to cover plotting early in a course; others prefer to cover it at the end. For this reason, we've made this lesson completely modular. The instructor might choose to cover this material earlier in the course. However, I don't recommend covering this material later than this. Material in the next few chapters assumes familiarization with plotting. |
21.1 The Old-Fashioned Way Putting It on Paper (Plotting)
It seems that we'll never escape our paper world!
Lamentations for a Pine Tree
Anonymous
The ironic thing about CAD is that, after all the wonders of the computer world have created this marvelous drawing; in the end, you still need that paper for construction. After all, it might be a bit clumsy to fold a...
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