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Batch Plotting (PUBLISH) drawings in AutoCAD

Batch Plotting (PUBLISH) drawings in AutoCAD - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD 2025 Essential Training

Batch Plotting (PUBLISH) drawings in AutoCAD

- [Instructor] We're staying in our GF-1031 Southeast Madison Rev 1 drawing. And we're going to take a quick look now at batch plotting, which is also known as the publish command in AutoCAD. Now at the moment, we've only got a Model tab and a Layout tab. So what we're going to do, we're going to go to the ISO A1 Landscape Layout tab, right-click on it and we're going to do Move or Copy and we're going to move it to the end and create a copy by ticking the box and clicking on OK. So there's ISO A1 Landscape 2. It's exactly the same. Right-click on Landscape 2, rename it and we'll just call it Ground Floor. Now, I'm only doing this so that we've got multiple layouts. They are exactly the same, but, obviously, I don't really have the time to create multiple layouts in a drawing right now. And it is a workflow thing. I just want to show you the workflow and how this all works. So we now have two Layout tabs to work with. Now the best way to get to the publish command is on the Output tab…

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