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You might have noticed in our paper space layouts we get this white area here.

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So if I go up here to print.

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As with anything in AutoCAD, we're confronted with lots of options, but it's fairly self-explanatory

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You have your paper size now.

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So if I was to okay that I get this box and it will say where do you want to save your pdf?

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It's this one is a large AoE sheet.

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Um, it's 1 to 1 as landscape.

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And what do you want to plot?

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Let's plot the window.

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I think what's happening here, if I go if I just do it scale to fit, it's just slightly too big for

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So if I do fit, you can see it's one point.

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It's basically 1 to 1 anyway.

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If I then preview that now that fits on the sheet.

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If I then either print it by selecting okay, I'll just go apply to layout.

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And then cancel it.

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Now our white space fits perfectly on the paper.

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So if you open a drawing and you start working or you're doing this course and you go to print and it

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doesn't, you bring in your title block and it doesn't fit on the white print preview, That's perfectly

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It's just because you haven't yet set up your printer settings.

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Going back to this, if I now wanted to print that, it's a simple case of just saying, okay.

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And it's saving a PDF.

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If I wanted to print it to my printer.

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I could just select my printer, which I think is that one.

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And if I click okay, that will come out my printer now.

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So simple.

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Hopefully they all made sense to you.

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Ignore most of this.

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Ignore that, ignore that.

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Unless the only reason, the only time I use this really is if I go previous plot.

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I want to do the previous settings.

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Um, select your printer, select your paper size.

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What do you want to print?

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Maybe you want it to print everything in your drawing, in which case you could go extents.

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But that is going to print everything.

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Center it generally you want it on a window.

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You want to select an object.

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Center it.

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And that's what you want to print.

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Just carry on with the course when you put it into practice.

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In the example that you're doing, depending on what course you're doing, you'll see this in more detail

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So that's print.