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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Get Information
- The User Interface
- Start and Save Drawings
- Control the Drawing Views
- Organize Drawings and Layouts
- Create and Modify Objects
- Control the Properties of Objects
- Use Precision Tools
- Work with the User Coordinate System (UCS)
- Enter Coordinates to Specify Points
- Use Dynamic Input
- Snap to Locations on Objects (Object Snaps)
- Restrict Cursor Movement
- Combine or Offset Points and Coordinates
- Specify Distances
- Extract Geometric Information from Objects
- Use a Calculator
- Create Objects
- Select and Modify Objects
- Select Objects
- Correct Mistakes
- Erase Objects
- Cut, Copy, and Paste with the Clipboard
- Modify Objects
- Add Constraints to Geometry
- Define and Reference Blocks
- Work with 3D Models
- Create 3D Models
- Overview of 3D Modeling
- Create Solids and Surfaces from Lines and Curves
- Create Solids
- Create Surfaces
- Create Meshes
- Create Wireframe Models
- Add 3D Thickness to Objects
- Modify 3D Models
- Create Sections and Drawings from 3D Models
- Create 3D Models
- Annotate Drawings
- Work with Annotations
- Overview of Annotations
- Scale Annotations
- Overview of Scaling Annotations
- Set Annotation Scale
- Create Annotative Objects
- Display Annotative Objects
- Add and Modify Scale Representations
- Set Orientation for Annotations
- Hatches, Fills, and Wipeouts
- Notes and Labels
- Tables
- Dimensions and Tolerances
- Understand Basic Concepts of Dimensioning
- Use Dimension Styles
- Set the Scale for Dimensions
- Create Dimensions
- Modify Existing Dimensions
- Add Geometric Tolerances
- Work with Annotations
- Plot and Publish Drawings
- Specify Settings for Plotting
- Save Plot Settings as Named Page Setups
- Reuse Named Page Setups
- Specify Page Setup Settings
- Select a Printer or Plotter for a Layout
- Select a Paper Size for a Layout
- Determine the Drawing Orientation of a Layout
- Set the Plot Area of a Layout
- Adjust the Plot Offset of a Layout
- Set the Plot Scale for a Layout
- Set the Lineweight Scale for a Layout
- Select a Plot Style Table for a Layout
- Set Shaded Viewport and Plot Options for a Layout
- Print or Plot Drawings
- Overview of Plotting
- Use a Page Setup to Specify Plot Settings
- Select a Printer or Plotter
- Specify the Area to Plot
- Set Paper Size
- Position the Drawing on the Paper
- Control How Objects Are Plotted
- Preview a Plot
- Plot Files to Other Formats
- Publish Drawings
- Specify Settings for Plotting
- Share Data Between Files
- Reference Other Drawing Files
- Work with Data in Other Formats
- Collaborate with Others
- Render Drawings
- Draw 2D Isometric Views
- Add Lighting to Your Model
- Materials and Textures
- Render 3D Objects for Realism
- Glossary
- Index
If you do not want to save the entire drawing, you can choose to export
selected objects only. You can use this option to remove extraneous material
from drawing files.
Export Raster Files
You can create a device-independent raster image of the objects in your
drawing.
Several commands can be used to export objects into device-independent
raster images in the bitmap, JPEG, TIFF, and PNG formats.
Objects are displayed in the raster image as they appear on the screen,
including objects in shaded and rendered viewports.
File formats such as JPEG are compressed as they are created. Compressed files
take up less disk space, but they might not be readable by certain applications.
Export PostScript Files
You can convert a drawing file to a PostScript file, a format that is used by
many desktop publishing applications.
The PostScript file format type is used by many desktop publishing
applications. Its high-resolution print capabilities make it preferable to raster
formats, such as GIF, PCX, and TIFF. By converting the drawing to a PostScript
format, you can also use PostScript fonts.
Export in PostScript Format
When you export a file in PostScript format as an EPS file, some objects are
handled specially.
Thickened text, text control codes. If text has a thickness greater
than 0 or contains control codes (such as %%O or %%D), it is not plotted
as PostScript text, although the text is accurately plotted. International
and special symbols (such as %%213) are output as PostScript text.
ISO 8859 Latin/1 character set. When text uses character codes in the
127 to 255 range, the text is interpreted according to the ISO 8859 Latin/1
character set. If such a character appears in text that is mapped to
PostScript, a version of the font is generated with an encoding vector
remapped to represent the ISO character set. The resulting text is output
in PostScript in a form compatible with the font.
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