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Determine the Drawing Orientation of a Layout
You can specify the orientation of the drawing on the paper using the
Landscape and Portrait settings.
Landscape orients the drawing on the paper so that the long edge of the paper
is horizontal, and Portrait orients the paper so that the short edge is horizontal.
Changing the orientation creates the effect of rotating the paper underneath
the drawing..
In either landscape or portrait orientation, you can select Plot Upside-Down
to control whether the top or bottom of the drawing is plotted first.
Although you can specify the drawing orientation in both the Page Setup
dialog box and the Plot dialog box, the Page Setup settings are always saved
and reflected in the layout. In the Plot dialog box, you can override the page
setup settings for a single plot; however, the settings you apply are not saved
in the layout. To save the settings you apply using the Plot dialog box, click
the Apply to Layout button in the Plot dialog box.
If you change the drawing orientation, the layout origin remains in the
lower-left corner of the rotated page.
To set the orientation of the plotted drawing
1 Click the layout tab for which you want to set the drawing orientation.
2 Click Output tab ➤ Plot panel ➤ Page Setup Manager.
3 In the Page Setup Manager, Page Setups area, select the page setup that
you want to modify.
4 Click Modify.
5 In the Page Setup dialog box, under Drawing Orientation, do one of the
following:
■ If your drawing is horizontal, select Landscape.
■ If your drawing is vertical, select Portrait.
■ To rotate 180 degrees, select either Portrait or Landscape, and then
select Plot Upside-Down.
6 Click OK.
7 In the Page Setup Manager, click Close.
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