Paper Space Layout Setup

[GrahameB]

Is someone able to tell me what the white dashed line is in the attached drawing? What is its purpose, what does it represent and can it be changed? We notice that on some drawings from clients, the line is superimposed almost on top of the black page representing the page size. It doesn't appear to affect our use or printing abilities.

Thank you in advance,

Grahame

[imadHabash]

Hi,

The dashed rectangle within the white paper area defines the printable area, so anything to be printed must be inside this area. This does mean that addition textural and graphical data could be placed in the grey area outside the dashed rectangle and would not print.

The printable area will change dependent on the current printer and the size of paper set to the “Page Setup”, which in turn is set to the “Layout”. The display of the dashed printable boundary can be switched off by removing the check in the box from OPTIONS command >>“Display Printable Area”, in the “Layout Elements” section of the “Display” tab. click on below image ..

[GrahameB]

Thank you for your reply, however, the title block does go outside of the printable area and it still prints correctly.

Good to know it can be turned if so desired.

[imadHabash]

Yes that's right .. it will print . While you're in layout tab and from PLOT dialog you will notice under Plot Area that you have an extra option called Layout .. it will Prints all objects within the printable area of the paper. This option is only available from a layout tab.

[ennujozlagam]

you can also remove the printing dqashed line by going to options and untick display printable area? thanks

[cadffm]

Hi @GrahameB 

i'm ignoring all other replies and my answer is:

Papersizes are part of your plot driver, or stored in a pmp file, which are linked to plot driver.

Every Papersize definition have 6 properties, length & width + non-printable border left/right/top/bottom.

If enabled,  AutoCAD trying to display your selected paper taking into account your print settings,

if enabled,  AutoCAD also trying to display the printable area of your selected paper taking into account your print settings.

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Now, the part i am missing in the other answers:

We are missing a senseful pagesetup, AutoCAD is missing them too - this is why your paper&borders doesn't look well.

Open PAGESETUP or PLOT, in my sample we start PLOT command.

Choose a printer, in my sample "DWG to PDF.pc3",

choose a papersize ANSI D

and all other settings, EXTENTS, Center,

press [APPLY to layout] and if you like, [OK] for a test pdf.

You can see: Your frame is big for this paperdefinition (doesn't fit into printable area).

Start command PLOT again and change ANSI D to ANSI expand D,

Use [APPLY ...] otherwise the changed setting is temporary (if you haven't turned on the automatic applying option).

and [OK] for the next Plot test.

NOW, you have a senseful pagesetup and your frames fits the choosed plotter-Papersize+settings.

[GrahameB]

Thank you for your replies.

My question has been answered in the combination of replies.