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820 | Chapter 30 Publish Drawing Sets
Overview of Design Publisher
Design Publisher allows you to assemble a collection of drawings and plot
directly to paper or publish to a DWF (Design Web Format) file. You can
publish your drawing sets as either a single multi-sheet DWF6 format file or
multiple single-sheet DWF6 format files. You can publish to devices (plotters
or files) specified in the page setups for each layout. With Design Publisher,
you have the flexibility to create electronic or paper drawing sets for distri-
bution. The recipients can then view or plot your drawing sets.
Design Publisher allows you to create a collection of drawings within any
project environment while maintaining the integrity of the original draw-
ings. Unlike the original DWG files, DWF files cannot be changed.
You can customize your drawing set for a specific user, and you can add and
remove sheets in a drawing set as a project evolves. Design Publisher allows
you to publish directly to paper or to an intermediate electronic format that
can be distributed using email, FTP sites, project websites, or CD.
Recipients of drawing sets in DWF format don't have to own or know
AutoCAD. From anywhere in the world, they can view and print high-quality
layouts using Autodesk Express Viewer.
Electronic Drawing Sets
The electronic drawing set is the digital equivalent of a set of plotted draw-
ings that can be shared as a single multi-sheet DWF file with customers,
suppliers, or people within your own company who may need the drawings
for examination or for their records. Using the new viewer (Autodesk Express
Viewer), recipients can view or plot only the layouts they need.
Paper Drawing Sets
Publishing your drawing set to a plotter that is named in page setups pro-
duces either individual paper plots—one sheet for each layout—or a plot file.
Your output is determined by how you configured the page setup for each
layout. Plotting to a file allows you to save the drawing set to a disk file.
Drawing Sheets
Layouts that you select from drawing files while using Design Publisher.
Page Setups
A collection of plotter configuration settings such as paper size, orientation,
and output device. A page setup is associated with each layout; drawing files
may contain named page setups.