- [Instructor] We're staying in our ground floor,
GF 1031 Southeast Madison .dwg file.
In the previous video, I showed you how to create
a very, very simple title block.
So we've got our notes column, our little boundary,
our little sort of borders of our title block
and a little bit of text in the title bar
at the bottom of the title block.
What we're going to do now is we're going to take that title block
into our layout tabs,
and then we're going to set up what is known as a page setup.
Now we need to do a bit of clipboarding here
with the windows clipboard.
So crosshair top left, left-click, release the mouse button
and drag the blue window selection
over everything that forms your title block.
As you can see all the little grips appear.
It's then a right-click and Clipboard on the shortcut menu.
And you want Copy with base point, that one there.
The base point is going to be the bottom left corner.
You'll see a highlight in green
as if it's an endpoint snap.
And you'll also see an orange of the grip appear as well.
Ignore the Stretch Vertex, Add Vertex,
Remove Vertex menu there.
Just left click once over that grip.
That's all you got to do.
It will tell you that it's found a number of objects.
It should be nine if you followed
exactly what I created with the title block.
Hit Escape a couple of times to deselect.
Your title block is now on the Windows clipboard.
We now need to go to our layout tab,
the ISO A1 Landscape layout tab.
If you zoom out slightly,
you can see it's a big white sheet of paper,
with some little dashed lines on it.
What we are going to do is we're going to make sure
that that title block fits
and that nothing goes outside those dashed lines.
Those dashed lines are known as printer limits.
Anything goes outside them, it won't appear.
It'll be truncated, as it's called.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to right-click now,
and go to Clipboard again.
And you'll notice I can paste in my title block.
If the paste is grayed out at this point
you can use the keyboard shortcut Control and V.
The usual Windows Control and V paste.
It sometimes happens that it is grayed out.
If it is, just use the Control and V on the keyboard.
And when you either use Control and V or click on paste,
you'll get this.
There's your title block one waiting to come in.
The insertion point you're going to select is 0,0.
And then press Enter to finish,
and it'll probably place your title block
in a really weird place like mine.
If I zoom out slightly, it's kind of put that
sort of right in the middle there,
which is a bit weird and wonderful, isn't it?
So what we need to do
is we need to set up our page setup now
so that our sheet and our title block
are sitting basically on top of each other.
That's the idea.
Well, ideally the title block should be on top of the sheet.
Otherwise, you wouldn't be able
to see the title block, right?
So it's a right-click now
of your ISO a A1 Landscape layout tab.
Go to Page Setup Manager.
And you'll notice there's some page setups in here already.
What I'd like you to do is anything that's in there,
there's an ISO A1 Landscape PDF high res.
We're going to right click on that and delete it.
We don't want it there.
And you'll notice that the current layout
is the ISO A1 landscape there, like so.
So we need to click on New.
And our new page setup name,
I'm going to call it ISO A1 and then dash,
and then L for landscape, and then dash PDF, like that.
So ISO A1, L for landscape PDF.
Click on Okay.
That'll open up your Page Setup dialogue box, like so.
We need to specify a printer and a plotter.
So I'm going to use the AutoCAD
PDF High Quality Print pc3 file.
That's a printer configuration file.
Paper size, we need to change that.
At the moment, that's very small, 8.5 by 11 inches,
is about A4 size in metric.
So we want to go up to an A1.
So I'm going to click here and you can see
there's loads of different sheets available in this.
As soon as you go PDF, you have loads of different ISOs
and ARCH, and ANSIs, so on.
You want to come all the way down the list
and you want to find the ISO expand A1.
So you want 841 by 594, that one there.
And you'll notice in the preview,
it all updates accordingly.
So it's ISO expand A1 841 by 594.
Now, if you were working in inches or feet,
you might use a different ARCH drawing size
or ANSI drawing size.
And it does depend on what you are working in at the time.
Like I said, I'm working in metric millimeters,
so I'm going to be using ISO metric sheet sizes.
My A1 in this case.
We're then going to set up here
the extents setting, what to plot,
and then we're going to click on Center the plot.
Now, as soon as you center the plot,
you'll see it does something a little bit weird here.
Everything is kind of out of whack here, you'll notice.
That's because we've got a weird custom thing going on here.
We need to change that to one to one,
because what we do want is we want our A1 title block
sitting on top of our paper size, our A1 sheet.
So we're going to go Extents,
Center the plot, Scale one to one,
because obviously we're scaling an A1 to an A1,
so it's going to be one to one.
Plot style table,
we're going to go with monochrome in this particular case.
Monochrome is a good one because it's just black and white.
If you wanted to perhaps have a gray scale setting,
where the colors are differing shades of gray,
that's good as well.
It does save on in if you're printing to paper, for example.
Monochrome saves on ink even more,
'cause it's just black and white.
But gray scale is quite a good one as well.
So I don't mind gray scale or monochrome in this case.
I'm going to go with gray scale
just to show you the difference.
Now you do want to plot your object line weights,
because if there's anything with a line weight,
you want it to plot,
and then sanity check, drawing orientation here,
you want to make sure that you're set to landscape.
So there's your landscape orientation,
and your A is the right way up.
Now, if you want to check what this looks like,
what's really nice is the page setup
gives you a preview option.
So when I click on Preview now,
you'll see that that is now showing me a really nice preview
but what you'll also notice, can you see that?
I'm just missing that top line.
So that's why the preview's there,
which means I need to possibly change up
my actual paper size.
So what I'm going to do here
I'm going to right-click and go Exit.
That'll take me back to my page setup.
I'm going to change my paper size here, like so.
And I'm going to go here like this,
and I'm going to go for an ISO full bleed, A1, 841 by 594.
Now, when you go full bleed,
that means that there are no printer limits.
It goes to the edge of the paper.
Only ever do this if you're plotting electronically
to something like a PDF.
If you're plotting to paper and hard copy,
always make sure that you've got those printer limits there.
that little black dashed line,
on your sheet in your layout tab,
because your print head could go off the sheet of paper
and damage the print head.
That's what those printer limits are there for.
So what I'll do now is I'll do a preview again.
I've just changed the paper size, so let's just check that.
And now can you see, I've got that top line
of my title block coming in,
and everything fits nicely on the sheet.
I'll just right click now and exit,
I'll click on Okay, and that adds my PDF page setup there.
Now highlight the page setup, double-click on it,
and that will apply that to your layout tab as well.
And you'll now notice that ISO A1 landscape,
our current layout tab,
is using our ISO A1 L PDF page setup.
When I click on close,
you can see that my page setup is working
because my title block is sitting beautifully
on my sheet in my layout tab.