Auto CAD Printing

[chawalang]

So, I have a project where I am going to bend a bunch of pipe to various shapes and sizes, it is a very sculptural project. I have drawn out all of the pipe shapes in Auto CAD and I need to lay them out in paper space so that when i print them from the plotter they are the actual size of what I need.

I am going to lay the paper down and bend the pipe a little bit and do the back and forth so it is the specific shape I need. How would I lay this out in paper space so that I can print it out to the plotter in the actual size of the pipe?

 

[MNicolai]

You would go to your sheets, select your viewports, and your viewport scale on your sheet to 12" = 1' or 1:1. If you have pipes spanning multiple sheets, leave yourself some dashed match lines where the sheets are supposed to overlap so you can tape them together accurately. Here's a YouTube tutorial on setting scales.

If this a bigger project spanning multiple sheets, it might make things a little easier to use a projector pointed at the floor and use that as your canvas rather than plotting lots of sheets and trying to line them up together.

 

[eadler]

If you're asking what I think you're asking, z 1xp

 

[Van]

Print from Model space, as long as it's drawn 1:1 and print 1:1. I used to do it all the time making templates.

 

[bobgaggle]

When I'm plotting full scale templates I add a grid of extension lines laid over my template. Set color to light gray. I also draw rectangles (on a non plotting layer) the size of the printable area of my 11x17 paper so i know what to select in my plot window. Huge help when you have gradual sweeping curves.