Printing an AutoCAD Drawing Overview Setting up a drawing to be printed Using the Plot dialog box Assigning lineweights to layers in your drawing Selecting the part of your drawing to print Previewing a print Printing a layout Looking at plot styles First of all, with today’s equipment, there is no difference between printing and plotting. Printing used to refer to smaller-format printers, and plotting used to refer to pen plotters, most of which were for plotting large sheets. But the terms are now used almost interchangeably. Pen plotters have a few extra settings that other printing devices do not have. Otherwise, as far as AutoCAD is concerned, the differences between plotters and laserjet, inkjet, dot-matrix, and electrostatic printers are minimal. So in this book, printing and plotting mean the same thing. Getting your drawing onto paper can be very easy or very hard, depending on whether your computer is connected to a printer that has been set up...