AutoCAD Essentials 6: Sharing Drawings with Others

In this installment of AutoCAD Essentials, author Jeff Bartels shows how to transition designs from concept to construction. Discover how to create hard copies of your drawings that are printed to a measurable scale, tie annotations to a plot scale, so text, dimensions, and callouts are properly sized, and share drawings between different CAD programs. Jeff also takes a close look at the DWF format, which enables clients to mark up drawings without CAD software. The final chapter includes a drawing challenge, where designers have an opportunity to use what they've learned to complete a small project.

Topics include:

• Creating quick plots
• Choosing line weights
• Organizing layouts
• Sizing text, dimensions, and multileaders using the Annotative property
• Changing a drawing's plot scale
• Creating custom scales
• Plotting to PDF and DWF
• Packaging and sending drawings using eTransmit