- You remember, in the previous video
we saved our drawing out as a separate drawing file.
So make sure that you are in the drawing that you saved
which is the GF-1031 South-East Madison
rev 1 complete file, that's really important
that you use that particular file.
And what we're going to do
is we're going to look at the publish command,
the batch plot command in AutoCAD.
Now I'm going to jump up to the output tab on the ribbon
for this particular video
because all my tools are here in the plot panel.
And what I'm going to do is I'm going to utilize
this batch plot command here,
or the publish command as it's known.
Now, before you make any changes,
you need to go up to the save icon
and make sure that you have saved your drawing,
the current drawing, really important
because once you get into the publish command,
if you haven't saved now,
it'll get to a certain point and it'll say you haven't saved
and you've got to start again.
So make sure that you saved,
click on save, up there on the quick access toolbar.
You'll see Qsave appear on the command line
when you do that as well, just prompting you
that you know that you've saved the drawing.
I'm now going to go to the plot panel
on the output tab and click on batch plot
and it'll open up this great big dialogue box.
Notice there's a hide details,
show details in the bottom left corner,
make sure that you're showing all the details
of the dialogue box.
Now, when you batch plotting,
you can remember all of the settings in here
by saving it as what is known as a DSD file,
a drawing sheet description file.
So we're just going to go through,
set up the settings and save this out as a PDF.
Now you can publish to a plotter named in the page setup
or you can go out to a specific file type.
We're going to select PDF in that list
like so, the PDF preset we're going to use
is high quality print basically,
we want all this going out high quality
to all our project stakeholders.
You'll notice there that this is saving
to my documents folder there.
I can go to publish options
and it'll save wherever I want it to,
I just browse and I can set my quality
and the data and so on.
Always include your layer information, hyperlinks,
bookmarks et cetera.
Always useful to have those,
if you're sending out to a PDF.
I'll click on OK there
just to make sure that's all saved as is like so.
Coming down the list it's automatically loaded
all open drawings so if I had other DWG files open,
it would also list the sheets and the model tabs
in this particular list.
Now we're not going to plot from the model tab.
So that one there I select it's got the blue and yellow icon
and I can click on the little minus sign there
that removes that from the list.
So what we've got now is some files here
and they're not files as in DWG files
they're sheet names based on the files.
So we can remove that drawing name at the front.
So I select it, right click and I'll rename the sheet
and all I want is the ISO A1 landscape it,
the name of the layouts (indistinct).
I might put a 001 and a space in front like that.
Let's do the same with this one.
So again, select it, right click, rename sheet
and this is just ground floor.
So what we'll do is we'll just remove all of that.
Oh, and two to be consistent with a space and enter.
Now that's not affecting the file name,
the layout tab name or anything.
It's a sheet listing in this particular sheet list.
Now we're going to come down to the bottom
of the dialogue box.
Number of copies is defaulting to one, that's fine.
We're going to include a plot stamp.
So tick the box and click on this little stamp icon here.
This is your plot stamp settings.
So what we need to do is make sure
that we are using the appropriate plot stamp fields.
I'm leaving those as the default settings.
What I am going to do
is check that my plot stamp parameter file is correct.
I'm going to a click on load
and you've got an option of inches or millimeters.
Make sure you select millimeters in my case
or in the case of the exercise files
because they're all in metric, millimeters.
Again, if you're working in feet and inches
you've got the feet and inches one there as well.
So I'm going to select millimeters and open
and it adds that to that plot stamp parameter
file location there.
If I click on advanced, I can now set up
where my plot stamp's going to go.
So I want it bottom left and I want it horizontal
the X offset and the Y offset,
I'm going to set to 15.
Now I'm deliberately exaggerating this
so that you can see it on the files
when they come out, okay.
And then when you look at your PDF later
you will go, oh look, there's my plot stamp.
So if we sent that to 15 millimeters, in each case.
I'm going to change the font,
I don't like this Segoe font
so I'm just going to press C there,
takes me to the first one beginning with C,
I'll select Calibri,
give it a height of say 3.5 millimeters.
We can have a single line plot stamp
so I'll tick the box.
Everything else you can leave as is
and click on OK
and again, click on OK again in the plot stamp dialogue box.
So that's our plot stamp all set up and ready to go.
Make sure that you tick publish in background,
really, really important.
Now I'm not going to bore you
by clicking on publish and letting you watch a drawing plot.
I mean I could, and what it'll do
is it'll send it to my documents folder
and really thinking about it
there are only two layout tabs to think about.
So let's hit publish and that'll say,
where do you want to save that particular PDF?
I'm just going to save that to my desktop
and what I'm going to do there,
is just keep that particular file name
and what I'll do is the PDF will be saved
and it will be in the library for you to download
so that you can check it out as well.
So what I'll do is I'll leave that there
in that particular location in my desktop
and I'll click on select.
Now be really careful
because when you click on desktop there
you need to click in this area and click on select.
Do you want to save the current list of sheets?
So this is that DSD file.
Be aware of where you're saving it
so that you know where it is,
I know that mine's going to my documents folder
or was it now, let's just check that,
it was going to my desktop, remember
because I saved over it,
that was where the PDF file was going
but what it will do is it will just overwrite that
with that documents location
because that's what I'm saving to my current list of sheets.
So if I say yes now,
I can now save my DSD file as well to my desktop.
It's going to my desktop again, click on save
and that'll all go in.
Now, if I look down in the bottom right corner,
you can see my little printer is working.
It's publishing in the background
always publish to the background.
If you've got lots of sheets, lots of drawings
and so on and so forth, you don't want to hold up AutoCAD.
So I'll close that
and I can now go straight back into AutoCAD
and carry on working.
So there's my plot and published job complete.
So what I could do now is go and open up that PDF
and you'll see the PDF
with obviously the plot stamp on it,
all set up and ready to go from your published command
where you've batch plotted your two layout tabs,
in this case, from your drawing.