topic Re: Set default Plotter in AutoCAD Forum

Set default Plotter

ace_guru — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:58:16 GMT

Greetings all,

This may be a silly question, but when sending a drawing to a client, how do you set the default plotter to be something else? I know you can set the default plotter to none if you use etransmit. Not sure if you can do this any other way.

Client wants all his drawings to be set as the following; "Default plotter set as "Default Windows System Printer"".

Never seen anything like that before.

Cheers,

Re: Set default Plotter

tmccar — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 06:55:05 GMT

Right-click on the Model tab (or Layout tab, as applicable) and click on "Page Setup Manager". Click "modify" and select the "Default Windows System Printer.pc3" option.

Re: Set default Plotter

imadHabash — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 07:13:03 GMT

Hi,

i think that your client OR you can prepare page setup and that's it.:)

Re: Set default Plotter

pendean — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:54:01 GMT

Set up (and save) your DWG files that way as noted here before you send them http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-2013-2014-2015-2016-2017/set-default-plotter/m-p/6243209#M117954

Re: Set default Plotter

ace_guru — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 23:04:15 GMT

Folks,

Thank you all muchly for the quick response & solutions.

Tmccar, thanks & kudos to you my friend. Who knew it could have been that easy.

Cheers,

Re: Set default Plotter

tmccar — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 08:49:07 GMT

Glad to help, ace

Re: Set default Plotter

rrowe24N24 — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:22:05 GMT

how do I set this as a default for current projects and any other project that I open?

Re: Set default Plotter

tmccar — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:41:33 GMT

If you save the page setup in the template file you're using, that should do it.

Re: Set default Plotter

rrowe24N24 — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 15:09:52 GMT

so why is it I'm having to set the printer / plotter name every time I want to print.

I have this set as my default printer (SHOP 11X17) in windows.

Re: Set default Plotter

pendean — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:23:06 GMT

AutoCAD PLOT parameters are saved in each tab of each DWG file independently of your system settings. 38+years so far, nothing has changed in 2020.

There is no such thing as a 'default printer' option in AutoCAD for all files you'll ever open unless you wish to customize a startup routine to go through and load up one of your preferred pagesetups.