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STREAMLINED OUTPUT
Connecting from Design to Documentation
AutoCAD 2000 is not just about making you more productive; it is also about better communications.
AutoCAD 2000 includes many new features and enhancements intended to help you better communicate
design intent. These features include the introduction of a Multiple Layout concept, the ability to create
Nonrectangular Viewports, the addition of Lineweight as an object property, Text-Handling
enhancements, OLE text-height scaling, and a More Flexible Plotting Interface. This all adds up to faster,
easier to setup, plotting that gives you the level of control required to satisfy your plotting needs.
Layouts—Multiple Paperspaces
The new Layouts feature in AutoCAD 2000 gives you the ability to create multiple paperspace layouts in
a single drawing. You can now visually compose a drawing on a virtual “sheet” of paper. Aided by
visual cues that indicate plotting area, configuring a layout for plot scale, paper size, plot area, paper
orientation and the plot device becomes a simple, straight forward task. Multiple drawing layouts enable
you to consolidate multiple drawing sheets into a single drawing file. This will greatly reduce the time
and effort required to setup and configure your drawing files for plotting. Since each layout stores its
own plot settings, you have unprecedented plotting control over drawing output.
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Layout Creation. You can quickly and easily create individual layouts using the layout wizard, layout
templates, or create one from scratch. Once created, a layout from any drawing can be inserted into the
current drawing using the AutoCAD DesignCenter or the layout import command--saving time and
maintaining drawing standards.
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Page Setup. Page setup provides you with the ability to specify plot parameters such as plot device,
paper size, scale factor, plot orientation, and plot area in each layout. This provides you with Plot
Preview-like feedback on how your layout will appear when plotted. These settings are saved within
each layout enabling you to plot each layout the same way, every time without having to re-configure
your plot settings from the last plot. As a result, you can leverage the work in a single drawing for
many drawings.
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Named Page Setups. After you have configured the Page Setup for your layouts, you can name and
save them into the drawing file for later use. This provides you with on-the-fly flexibility and
convenience to change a layout’s Page Setup settings from one configuration to another. Additionally,
you can also import Named Page Setups from other AutoCAD 2000 drawings.
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WYSIWYG Layouts. The Layouts feature provides a preview of exactly what will be plotted out.
The preview-like feedback displays a paper border that accurately indicates the plot area for the layout
based on paper size, scale factor, paper orientation, and offsets. The layout also accurately reflects
lineweights, screening, color, fill patterns, etc. With WYSIWYG layouts, you are in full control of
your output and it simplifies the plotting process to the simple act of pressing a button.
AutoCAD 2000’s Model and Layout Tabs