- [Instructor] We're staying in our
GF-1031 SE Madison_REV1 drawing.
And sometimes you want to send out a package
of drawings to somebody via email
as an attachment, for example.
There's a great command in AutoCAD for this.
And it's a great way of creating output to send to somebody.
It's a command called ETRANSMIT.
It's a really, really useful tool.
So what I'm going to do,
we're obviously still zoomed in on the restrooms
from the previous video,
double click on the wheel to Zoom Extents,
then go back to each of your layout tabs like so.
Make sure that you double click on the wheel
to Zoom Extents as well for each one,
so they're all nicely set up
and easy to read and to look at.
It's good CAD etiquette to get into the habit
of making sure that you Zoom Extents in each of the tabs,
the model tab and the layout tabs.
What we're going to do now is we're going to do a save as,
so I'm going to go up to Save As here
and we're going to call this GF-1031 SE Madison_REV1
and I'm going to put a little underscore at the end
and then complete like so.
And then I'm just going to hit Save like that.
Click on Save and that'll save it as a different file name
gives you a big long file path at the top too.
So just click on the Save icon
and then you lose that big long file path,
and you've just got the file name at the top of the screen.
Then it's just a case of typing ETRANSMIT
E T R A N S M I T,
ETRANSMIT.
Now, because we've saved the drawing.
We've saved it at that point in time
and you should always save before you ETRANSMIT.
So when I press Enter there,
that'll take me into the Create Transmittal dialog box.
Now, if I hadn't saved it,
it would've asked me to save anyway
but it should always save
and you can see there's our drawing name.
There's all our different CTB files
and post configuration files and so on.
So what I can do now is using my transmittal setup here.
I can define what I want my transmittal to do.
If I just click on Modify there,
you can see that, I can set up a zip file
and I can send an email with the transmittal,
I can set the default plotter to none,
I can bind any external reference files,
I can purge the drawing of all the information
that isn't needed as well.
You'll notice there I've got a transmittal file folder.
I can use an organized folder structure.
I can include any particular company fonts,
that might be used in this particular drawing.
Some companies have customized fonts,
which another person,
a stakeholder in the project might not have.
So if you include the fonts
it means they get the font files as well
so that everything remains consistent.
You can also give you transmittal set up
a description as well.
Just a little text description at the bottom.
I'm just going to OK that and leave everything
as it is right now.
And then I'll close the Transmittal Setups dialogue box.
So all I've got to do now is literally
hit that button there, click on OK.
And you'll see that it's going to save that zip file
in my folder of my choice, obviously
depending on the settings in the Transmittal Setup
and all I've got to do is hit Save.
That's it.
And that has now sent that zip file
to that folder as a package.
What I can do now is put that zip file
as an attachment in an email and send it
to other stakeholders on the project.
That's how quick and easy it is to package up your drawing
and send it to somebody else.