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Help! Trying to get my file to a PDF...NOT new to AutoCAD it has been 10+ years

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 19:30:15 GMT

I am not NEW to AutoCAD, but it has been 10 plus years...ugh! I received a file from a company and needed to make some changes to the layout. I didn't do anything except that. I went to export the file to a PDF...then remembered I needed to Plot it for that to work. But it comes out only on half the page. I have googled and do not really understand the lingo so I am confused and frustrated at this point. I need to email this pdf tomorrow to my clients and can't figure it out. Can anyone help guide me....and be prepared for some dumb/silly questions if I don't understand you LOL! I am using 2019 version. Included a screen shot so you can see what I see. I have tried to do multiple things which didn't really help much. If anyone is willing to help I need a step by step guide to fixing this so I can print and/or save as a pdf to be able to email!

Re: Help! Trying to get my file to a PDF...NOT new to AutoCAD it has been 10+ ye

Alfred.NESWADBA — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 19:36:06 GMT

Hi,

can you please show the PLOT dialog so we can see which settings are the current ones?

- alfred -

Re: Help! Trying to get my file to a PDF...NOT new to AutoCAD it has been 10+ ye

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 20:44:22 GMT

It froze up on me and now it looks like this when I opened up AutoCAD.

Re: Help! Trying to get my file to a PDF...NOT new to AutoCAD it has been 10+ ye

Alfred.NESWADBA — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 07:07:23 GMT

Hi,

I don't have your dwg-file, but ....

You are using a layout, so in your plot-dialog you should have set "what to plot" ==> "layout", yours is set to "Display"

Your screenshots don't show which scale you have set in your plot dialog, so that might be another fact, either the paper format "ANSI full bleed A" is smaller than your viewport, or your scale is not set to 1:1

If both fails, then please upload the dwg-file.

- alfred -

Re: Help! Trying to get my file to a PDF...NOT new to AutoCAD it has been 10+ ye

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:56:43 GMT

Thank you for responding. The scale was set to 1:1 and I put it to layout, but still not working:/

I will upload the dwg just so you can see it and tell me what I am doing wrong! Which is probably everything lol.

Re: Help! Trying to get my file to a PDF...NOT new to AutoCAD it has been 10+ ye

cadffm — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 16:55:17 GMT

Alfred: "so in your plot-dialog you should have set "what to plot" ==> "layout"

Me: Oh no, Never use the Plot area "Layout", except you really want to do this (and you know what this mean).

@Anonymous

The pagesetup of your Layout1 is set to "Plot area" => "Layout" (Alfred preferred for it), THATS the first problem,

the second problem is your papersize, it is too small for 1:1 print / or your Viewport is too big for 1:1 print.

Try this:

Plot area = Extents

Plot offset = Center

Now you will see: The "paper" is to small..

And then you can ask the next point.

Re: Help! Trying to get my file to a PDF...NOT new to AutoCAD it has been 10+ ye

pendean — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:30:50 GMT

Your 3/32" scaled viewport seems to be small for a C-sized sheet, other than that it is ready to plot to PDF