AutoCAD Page setup and Printing Advanced
Contents
Introduction
Viewports
Rotate the view inside a viewport
To rotate the model space within one of the viewports, the following steps must be taken:
- Activate the viewport
- Choose Rotate Z from the UCS toolbar, or use the command ucs, z. Enter the rotation in degrees (counter clockwise). The UCS is now rotated within the viewport.
- Enter the command plan. Select Current UCS (default) and press enter. The model space within the viewport will now be rotated so as to align the viewports UCS with the paperspace UCS.
Non-rectangular viewports
You can draw any shape you want to be used as a viewport. This must be a closed (poly)line. Use the Close option when drawing a polyline to make sure it's closed.
Go to View > Viewports > Object and select the closed line to be turned into a viewport.
Color Tables
Modifying a Color Table
In the Page Setup dialog, click the Edit button next to the list where the Plot style table is selected:
The following dialog will show:
For each color you can view or edit the settings, such as: print color, line weight, etc.
If you have a 3D solid model that you want a line drawing of with the hidden lines removed, you could set the display mode to 3D Hidden. But this will automatically export the viewport as a bitmap image and not vectors. Use this procedure to be able to export or print is in vector format:
- Enter the dispsilh command, press enter and set the value to 1 (this removes the facet edges when the hide command is given)
- Set the Visual style of the viewport to 2D wireframe.
- enter the command hide
When you print the viewport to PDF (or similar), the lines should be nice vectors you can work with in Illustrator.
