Creating Layout Sheets and Printing Drawings

When a drawing is complete, you can apply Sheet tabs to design layouts from which to print. Annotative scaling lets you have consistent sizes and scales of text, dimensions, and hatches in printouts.

This chapter discusses:

Laying Out Drawings on Sheets. Discusses Model and Sheet workspaces and Viewports on layout Sheets.
Working with Annotative Scales. Explains how to control the size and scale at which annotation entities are displayed and printed.
Printing and Plotting Drawings: Includes PageLayout configurations and PrintStyle management.
Printing and Plotting Drawings: Includes Print Configuration and PrintStyle management
Printing and Plotting Drawings. Includes Print Configuration and PrintStyle management.

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