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Usually a drawing file contains only one layout, but you can create as many
layouts as you need. The first time you display a layout, it is initialized and a
default page setup is assigned to it.
Page Setups
When you create a layout, you specify a plotter, and settings such as paper
size and orientation. These settings are saved in the drawing as a page setup.
Each layout can be associated with a different page setup.
You can control these settings for layouts and for model space using the Page
Setup Manager. You can name and save page setups for use with other layouts.
If you do not specify all the settings in the Page Setup dialog box when you
create a layout, you can set up the page just before you plot. Or you can
override a page setup at plot time. You can use the new page setup temporarily
for the current plot, or you can save the new page setup.
Plot Styles
A plot style is an optional method that controls how each object or layer is
plotted. Assigning a plot style to an object or a layer overrides properties such
as color, lineweight, and linetype when plotting. Only the appearance of
plotted objects is affected by plot style.
Plot style tables collect groups of plot styles, and save them in a file that you
can later apply when plotting.
The Plot Style Manager is a folder that contains all the available plot style tables,
along with the Add-A-Plot-Style wizard.
NOTE The Plot Style Manager is not available on the Mac. You can plot drawings
with plot styes defined in them, but you cannot modify the plot styles or create
new ones.
There are two plot style types: color-dependent and named. A drawing can
use only one type of plot style table. You can convert a plot style table from
one type to the other. You can also change the type of plot style table a
drawing uses once it has been set.
For color-dependent plot style tables, an object's color determines how it is plotted.
These plot style table files have .ctb extensions. You cannot assign
color-dependent plot styles directly to objects. Instead, to control how an
object is plotted, you change its color. For example, all objects assigned the
color red in a drawing are plotted the same way.
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