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Printing with title block and template

1 Comment Mar-11-2008 | Posted by Erhan Toker | Printable Version | Level |

Prepared with AutoCAD 2007

Note: This article was prepared by using AutoCAD 2007. It may have discrepancies with previous versions.

When we look at the comments coming from users and reading numbers, it is understood that we have to explain scale and plotting in detail. Indeed, as you will understand from this article it is quite and easy work to do.

Printing with title block and letterhead is the stage where you put your drawing and all of your efforts in front of people’s eyes. At this stage, letterheads, title blocks and other information inside this block that you will use is important both from your company profile and customer satisfaction. To do this, first we must have a template with letterheads and title block. For this reason, we will first prepare the template. Drawing scale that we will use for the letterheads and title block must absolutely be mm independently from the drawing unit that we use for the normal drawing. Because printing unit of AutoCAD is defined as mm ( or inch). In such a case, if we accept the outer dimensions of A4 paper as 297×210, we will determine our working frame as 277×190 taking into account 10mm drawings margins at the edges of the drawing. I have included the fundamental information that we use inside the frame as ATTRIBUTE. You can see the sample drawing that I have prepares in Fig. 1 and download from here.

Fig. 1 (sorry for Turkish words in title block)

I have to mention that you should pay attention to using layers at this stage. You can take a look at our example to see the possible choices for naming these layers. After completing the drawing, we are going to save it as A4_ANTET.dwg to a shared directory. Then, we are going to open the drawing that we will print and open a new layout and place our drawing into this page (Fig. 2).

Fig. 2

If there are deviations while inserting the block, you can refer to article Scaling of Blocks in AutoCAD about this subject. Of course, you should pay attention to the new page that you have created will be in A4 page dimensions. You should prepare your own templates based on the limitations of your printer and existing page sizes. What we give here is an example only.You can also find another detailed explanation about this subject in the following article: Advanced plotting using Layouts. After you insert the block, thus the letterhead and titleblock, then you can open and edit the ATTRIBUTE editing window by double clicking on it (Fig. 3).

Fig. 3

Finally, you have to add the drawing inside the template. For this operation, you have to open a MVIEW window. To do this, you can use MV command (Fig. 4).

Fig. 4

You can see the final view of the drawing from MVIEW window. But, you can still make some adjustments over it. ( Refer to :Plotting render and drawing together in layouts ) ( Fig. 5 ).

Fig. 5

Related articles:

• Scaling blocks in AutoCAD,
• Advanced plotting using Layouts,
• Plotting render and drawing together in layouts

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