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Layouts
A layout represents a drawing sheet, and typically includes
■ A drawing border and title block
■ One or more layout viewports that display views of model space
■ General notes, labels, and possibly dimensions
■ Tables and schedules
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.
Once initialized, layouts can be modified, published, and added to sheet sets
as sheets.
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.
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
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