Hello everyone:
I'm pretty new to the Autocad scene, so excuse me if I'm asking the obvious.
I currently have a drawing in Autocad 2012 with a large format layout. Unfortunately I do not have a printer to print it out in that size. I found an office in town that can print it for me, but the issue is that they don't have an Autocad installed.
They told me that they can print from a PDF, Word, or an image file.
So my question is, how can I print my layout with them while keeping the right scale of my drawing?
Solved! Go to Solution.
Solved by nestly2. Go to Solution.
Hi,
you can change to that layout, start command _PLOT, within the plot-dialog change the printer to "DWG to PDF.pc3".
You might be asked if you want to keep the page-format, answer with yes and then start the plot. That creates a PDF in the correct size.
- alfred -
AutoCAD2009 and newer includes a DWG to PDF "virtual printer"
In the PLOT dialog box, scroll down Printer/Plotter list and select DWG to PDF.pc3, select the paper size and set everything else up as if your computer was physically hooked up to a large format printer.
Here's a demo found on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osvr39_CTbE