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We're now going to look at the Page Setup Manager. Now what we did with the A3 Blank tab previously was we set up the Layout settings for that particular Layout tab. That is our blank Layout Settings, what we also need are Page Setups to allow to mix and match how we Plot those layouts. So we may want to perhaps Plot our A3 Metric Landscape and our A3 Metric Details tab to an A4 Check Plot Sheet to take out onto the short floor to perhaps measure that part that we've drawn, the bracket and the shaft. So let's have a look at that now, we're going to make sure we're on our A3 Blank tab here and then it's a right click and Page Setup Manager. Now yes the A3 Blank Layout Settings are also set up in the Page Setup Manager, but we're going to Setup a New Page Setup. So let's click on New here and the New Page Setup Name is going to be A4 Check Plot, like so and I'm going to put in brackets, Landscape as well, purely from the viewpoint that people will understand what orientation the drawing is in if its got in brackets Landscape, because it could otherwise be Portrait. I click on OK, and again we go into the Page Setup Editing Dialog Box, we are now actually, physically, creating a Page Setup though, not our Layout Setting. Now in this particular case our A4 Check Plot is going to be going out to everybody within the organization, some people won't have AutoCAD; some people won't have things like DWF Viewer or Autodesk Design Review. So we need to change that to a Non- Autodesk file format. Luckily we can Plot DWG, our AutoCAD drawing to a PDF file, which is recognized pretty much world wide. Paper size though, we need to change that, that needs to become an A4, so we do A4 there 297 by 210 because it's a Landscape format. What to plot, we leave at Extents and again we center the Plots. We fit to paper here though, the reason being is it scales the Plot to fit within the paper size. So our A3 sheet will now fit, for example, on a A4 Page Setup. We set it to fit to paper because we're going to be using different size drawings to fit onto the A4, which means that the Viewport Scales will not apply. The Viewport Scales only apply to the sheet size that they are set for. Our Plot Style table here, what I'm going to do here is I'm going to set that to monochrome every time. When you Plot to things like PDF monochrome is better, especially to a A4 because people can then Plot to a black and white Laser Printer that they might have on desk for secretarial purposes. So when your plotting to A4, normally rule of thumb, go for monochrome and we'll make sure here that we're not in our Portrait Setting but we're in our Landscape Drawing Orientation. Now I'm not going to worry too much about previewing this, what I'm going to is just OK it. And as you can see now, A4 Check Plot Landscape is now available in the listing there. Now I'm not going to apply this to my A3 Blank Tab, I don't want to. So what I have to do is close the Page Setup Manager and then go to one of my A3 Metric tabs. There's my Landscape tab, there's my A3 Metric details tab. I'm going to use the Landscape tab there like so and then I'm going to right click, you have to make the layout current before you apply the Page Setup. So I click on A3 Metric Landscape tab, right click, Page Setup Manager and at the top of the Page Setup Manager there, current layouts, A3 Metric Landscape. Now at the moment its using the A3 Landscape Page Setup, but if I now select the A4 Check Plot and double click on it, it applies that to the A3 Metric Landscape tab there. So I've now got A4 Check Plot Landscape. If I close that now you'll see that it's shrunk everything to fit on a A4 sheet, you can see that its not sitting exactly on the Printer Limits, the black dashed lines there. So that has now been shrunk to fit on a A4 sheet, so somebody can now just print that as a PDF off of an A4 black and white Laser Printer, put it in their little clipboard and take it out on site and then basically check the dimensions there. It's no problem and what will happen is once you've printed that off, it's very simple, you right click on the tab again, Page Setup Manager and now what we do is we select A3 Landscape, double click on it again, you'll see it change in the background there, close the Page Setup Manager, its now back on an A3 sheet again.