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Up until now we've been using a lot of the Default Settings in AutoCAD for plotting. In our Options dialog box by right clicking on the mouse and Selecting Options you will notice that there is actually a Plot and Publish tab. Let's go look at that Plot and Publish tab, at the moment my default output device is a DWF file. But what I can do here is I can change that to any of those PC3 files. PC3 is a Plotter Configuration file, so I could say that by default I plot to PDF. It's entirely up to you, it is User Preference or it could be a corporate preference. You might be using DWF as a standard file format or I can use my last successful set of Plot Settings instead. So that would be in this case DWF anyway from what we plotted from the Layout tab, so lots of settings there that you can change. The default location for Plot to Follow Operations, PLT files is that folder there that can be changed at anytime. Background plotting when publishing is important here. When you're publishing you'll be publishing a whole group of drawings and we're going to look at that in the next section. We'll look at publishing and also the transmit. But you'll notice there lots of information again, a Log file. A Log file is important for CAD Managers, they can see how many Plots are being done, that can be monitored from an environmentally friendly view point, we can see how many plots have been done at the same drawing. It may be that you only need to do the one Paper Plot of the drawing, the rest of the Plots could be electronic and can be sent to PDF, could be sent to for example Mobile Phones or PDA's, it doesn't have to be a Paper Plot anymore. General Plot Options, when changing the Plot device, keep the layout paper size if possible. Now that might not be possible, you might be going from let's say a Plotter to A4 printer, but its available. Now what we've got here, we've got DWF Publish Settings, so I can set my Auto-Publish Options whenever I'm publishing to DWF. I can set those by default here, I'm not going to change them in this particular case but I could if I wanted to. Plot Stamp, now Plot Stamp is extremely useful, what Plot Stamp allows you to do is on the drawing itself show things like, Drawing Name, Date and Time, Log In Name, who plotted the drawing. I can also apply a Plot Stamp Parameter file, so if I click on load hereby default you've got a choice of inches or millimeters. If I just scroll down a little bit there's the Parameter files there, the PSS files, Plot Stamp Settings files. So I've got inches or millimeters, inches are for Imperial Drawings, millimeters for Metric Drawings. So there's lots of information there in the Options in the Plot and Publish tab. Again, you will set these to your settings, the way that I have them set could be different.