Now put in position your new title block with attributes. You can set up as many layout tabs within your template as you wish. Your NP layer should also be set to not print. You now know where the ‘edge’ is and can position other entities inside or outside the printable area. This layer NP you never use again anywhere for anything! You now have something to snap to when making, resizing & moving any viewports. Go to Tools – Draw Order – Send to Back & select the NP line.
Now make the NP layer current & draw, snapping to each corner, a Polyline on top of the viewport line & close it. Erase the old viewport & make a new whole viewport whilst in Viewports layer. That’s for Non Plotting & give it a colour that does not stand out much, say grey. To get round this create a layer called NP. Now if you were to resize or move the viewport & then try to reposition it back again.precisely, you will find you cannot. You will note that it fits perfectly over the Max Printable Area.
Select the option that gives you the full single viewport & put a new viewport on your page. A drop down selection of other toolbars will appear. Go over the top of any other toolbar and right click. You cannot select it or highlight it nor start a line on it….exactly or precisely. What you have left is a dashed line depicting the maximum printable area that your printer is capable of for that sheet size. Close this window down & go back to the layout tab.Įrase any viewport that AutoCAD gave you. The one which you need to know for this exercise is to do with the maximum printable area. If you go to Tools then Options & select the Display tab you will see the Layout Elements rectangle. When you exit from this AutoCAD will reset to give you your sheet in the layout tab. Select the Page Setup Manager then Modify. Hover the cursor over the layout tab & right click. You need to first pick the printer you want to use & then the sheet size. When AutoCAD is opened up you are usually given a layout tab with a viewport on a sheet of no particular size. For instance the bottom right hand corner of the sheet & viewport which matches the edge of the maximum printable area of your printer. Think about it….it’s a big yawn when you are in a rush.Īs you make your title panel block, finish off with the insertion point at a known location suitable for insertion. If you have this on your sheet and only a small detail in the middle, how long will it take for your printer to print the whole sheet out when all you needed was the detail in the middle! Some people like to have a full surround line border on their page or sheet with divisions marked out at intervals. When your drawing sheet is folded, is the title panel fully visible? Also bear in mind the size of sheet & it’s orientation. As you select the entities that will make up your block be careful to select the attribute entities in the order you wish them to appear when the title panel block is activated !Ĭreate a new layer specifically for the title panel. Set everything out using perhaps the snap & grid to locate & position the text elements, boxes & lines. This will be your title panel containing title headings such as:- logo, name, date, scale, drawing number, revisions, job title, client name, job number, company name, checked by, drawn by & others all requiring filling in, in the little boxes. Feet ‘an inches, millimeters, gallons, tons…. Open up an AutoCAD session an set the Units to the way you work. But I’ll have a go myself none the less.Īs with AutoCAD, there’s always more than one way of doing things, thank goodness! To name but a few !Īll the topics, which apply to AutoCAD of course, can be found in the Help files & by accessing these Blogs & blogs from other sources (this web site has got it all here). Typical topics in question are as follows:- Blocks, Attributes, Layers, Viewports, Insertion Points, Printer, Sheet size & Orientation, Settings, Templates, Startup Switches, Paths, Brain Surgery, Atomic & Bi-molecular Fusion, Astroe Fizziks, Spelling, Gardening…. This question covers quite a few topics, all of which will require explaining leading up to the point where the template set up is automatic.