Printing a Drawing

You’ll learn to plot the individual plan sheets in a moment, but your first task will be to print 14A-FPLAY1.dwg from model space at a scale of 1/4? = 1'-0? (1 = 50) on an 11?×17? (297 mm×420 mm) format printer. In this exercise, you’ll use the DWFx ePlot (XPS Compatible).pc3 printer. Since the DWF plotter will simply plot to a file, you could select any sheet size you wanted. To remain consistent with the layouts you have already created, you will use a standard Letter (A3) sheet size for this exercise.

The first step is to configure your layers by assigning lineweights to them.

Determining Lineweights for a Drawing

Look at the I14A-FPLAY1 (M14A-FPLAY1) drawing as a whole. You need to decide on weights for the various lines. The floor plan is drawn as if a cut were made horizontally through the building, just below the tops of the window and door openings. Everything that was cut will be given a heavy line. Objects above and below the cut will be given progressively lighter lines, depending on how far above or below the cut the objects are located.